Fair Coin by E. C. Myers

This is one of those books that I don’t remember how I heard about it but I remember the summary sounded different than most of the books on my shelf. Sixteen-year-old Ephraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills….

Black Heart by Holly Black

Holly Black’s Curse Workers series is one that we’ve all (with the exception of Katie, because she’s silly and doesn’t like mob books) obsessed about for a while. I still remember getting to the end of Red Glove and feeling like I was going to lose my mind with the need to have Black Heart…