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Kelly Braffet

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Kelly Braffet writes stories about unhappy people making bad decisions, occasionally with magic. She is the author of The Unwilling (available 2/20 from Mira Books), Save Yourself, and Last Seen Leaving; her first novel, Josie and Jack, has been made into a feature film starring Olivia DeJonge, Alex Neustaedter, and William Fitchner, and directed by Sarah Lancaster. Her writing has been published in the Fairy Tale Review, Post Road, and in several anthologies, as well as on Salon.com. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College.

She is married to the tall and immensely talented writer Owen King. He's dreamy. For more, see www.kellybraffet.com. ...more

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Oh, please, not another List

Yeah. Sorry.

Anyway, I just posted my quick-and-dirty reviews of the best books I read in 2012. Which doesn't mean that they were published in 2012, just that that's when they came to to the top of the pile. I recommend all of them wholeheartedly.

ETA: Okay, in retrospect this whole "scroll down" nonsense is confusing. You can find the books and reviews on my "best of the year 2012" bookshelf. You c Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 13, 2013 08:14 • Tags: best-of-the-year

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Kelly Braffet’s books

Average rating: 3.5 · 9,630 ratings · 1,438 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Save Yourself 3.48 avg rating — 3,887 ratings — published 2013 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Josie and Jack 3.57 avg rating — 2,115 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unwilling (The Barrier Lands #1) 3.45 avg rating — 2,056 ratings — published 2020 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Seen Leaving 3.22 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Broken Tower 4.10 avg rating — 501 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories by Owen King (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John McNally (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Burnham (Illustrator) 3.36 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten-Word Tragedies by Tim Lebbon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Marshall Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	25 Years in the Word Mines: The Best Short Fiction of Graham Joyce by Graham Joyce, Owen King (Goodreads Author) (foreword), Kelly Braffet (Goodreads Author) (afterword) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tale Review, The Aquamarine Issue by Kate Bernheimer (editor), Kelly Braffet (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Resident Alien, Omnibus: Volume 1

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“Logic is what the devil likes most.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

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“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

tags: humor, josie, kelly-braffet, nature

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“To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

tags: choices-and-consequences, grief, murder, violent-death

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The Stranger by Harlan Coben

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4 votes, 18.2%

Follow You Home by Mark Edwards

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Hard Fall by C.J. Lyons

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Storm Clouds by Bronwyn Parry

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The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

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Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet

1 vote, 4.5%

I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark

1 vote, 4.5%

Stranded by Marina Cox

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The Enemy Inside by Vanessa Skye

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Stranger Child by Rachel Abbott

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What She Left by T.R. Richmond

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