Get A Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert, is about two people projecting their own insecurities onto one another until they actually have a real and true conversation and start falling madly in love with each other. The enemies-to-lovers trope is as popular as it is complicated to adore. Enemies to lovers is a drastic leap and difficult to pull off in just a few hundred pages of fiction. But I believe that Tallia Hibert gave fans of the trope the adjustment they so desired.

By the end of these novels we not only know more about the beloved Avatar Kyoshi, but also Avatar Yangchen and Avatar Kuruk. We know next to nothing about these two Avatars before the Kyoshi novels, and it turns out it was intentional. These novels reveal the secret history these Avatars have been trying to conceal. Their actions will affect five Avatar reincarnations and will create one question that shapes their lives as the Avatar—how do you stop someone who has enacted irredeemable violence without resorting to murder?

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home is the most thrilling novel I’ve read this year. his novel travels through the centuries through the eyes of The Faceless Old Woman from the Mediterranean to the United States to the ridiculously weird world of Nightvale. She shares the story of her past with her readers, and Craig— the man she’s currently stalking—to explain her present and reveal her future.