"The Night Circus" Book Review: I have read a lot of books. Hundreds of books. And if you asked me to pick one — one book, one world I could live inside forever — it would be this one without hesitation. The Night Circus is my favorite book, and I am not being hyperbolic. I mean it in the way that some people mean it when they talk about a song that changed their life or a place they visited that rearranged something in their brain. This book rearranged me.

"Red, White & Royal Blue" Book Review: I was not expecting this book to matter to me as much as it did. I picked it up thinking it would be a fun, frothy enemies-to-lovers romance between the First Son of the United States and the Prince of Wales, and it is that — it absolutely is that — but Casey McQuiston also wrote something that sneaks up on you and becomes genuinely moving in ways that the premise doesn't advertise.

"The Nightmare Before Kissmas" Book Review: Okay, here's the pitch: holidays are kingdoms. Christmas, Halloween, Easter — each one is ruled by a royal family. The Prince of Christmas is a golden-hearted himbo named Coal who's disillusioned with the whole Santa PR machine. The Prince of Halloween is a brooding, dark-magic-wielding disaster named Hex. They're rivals. Then they're not.