The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory

★★★

The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory

★★★★

"For most of my life I have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore.  But I am above these judgements, I am a Queen."

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

★★★

"With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future...all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty."

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

★★★★

"Sometime.  Mostly, no.  It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way.  Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.  If you see what I mean."