I like Lori Rader-Day, her books are usually pretty good, and this one was no exception. Since her husband, Bix's, death nine months earlier, Eden has developed a crippling fear of the dark. While going through his papers, she finds a reservation for a dark sky park that he made to coincide with what would have been their 10th wedding anniversary. Eden goes, and discovers that Bix made reservations for them in a suite of a house with six other guests: strangers to Eden, they're old college friends. Eden would turn around and drive home, but it's dark, so she's stuck, at least for the evening. She plans to leave first thing in the morning, but then one of the houseguests is murdered during the night and everyone is a suspect. I enjoyed how she teased out the information (I don't want to spoil it, but everyone had motives/secrets/etc.).
"City of Bastards" by Andrew Shvarts is a sequel to "
Royal Bastards", which I enjoyed. I liked this one, too. Tilla is staying in the capital city with the Princess Lyriana, enjoying her boyfriend, Zell, going to university and trying to fit in. Hard to do, when you're the bastard daughter of a rebel traitor. Tilla comes home one night and finds her roommate dead from an apparent suicide, but Tilla knows better. She soon discovers her father's forces have infiltrated even the highest levels of power, no one is safe. I'm guessing, by how it ended, that there will be another sequel :)
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