Best of 2020 – Emoji Files, Part IV: Take Me Away

Posted 1 January 2021 by Katie in Christian Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Speculative, Time-slip / 1 Comment

Welcome back, reader friends! It’s time for Part IV of my annual Emoji Files celebrating my best reads of 2020. If you’ve missed my previous posts for 2020, make sure you check out The Swoony Awards, Got Me in the Feels, and The WOW Awards.

The Take Me Away Awards go to those books that were truly immersive reads, carrying me away to different times and places with authentic historical, sensory, and cultural details and introducing me to some fantastic and intriguing characters who inhabit those worlds. Through these stories I’ve travelled all over the world and beyond—an experience that has had extra significance in 2020!

Veiled in Smoke by Jocelyn Green (read my review)
The Socialite by J’Nell Ciesielski (read my review)
Set the Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes (read my reviews)

Hidden Current by Sharon Hinck (read my review)
Like Flames in the Night by Connilyn Cossette (read my review)
A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White (read my review)

The London Restoration by Rachel McMillan (read my review)
Things We Didn’t Say by Amy Lynn Green (read my review)
Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver