Shades of Milk and HoneyModern · Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
Shades of Milk and Honey
2010 · 304 pages · Fiction
56.0Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Critics' pick
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
56.0Must-Read Score
- Readers5 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics42 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Bestseller14 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 10%
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero. The parts combine into the Must-Read Score, shown on a scale where the best book we found scores 99 and the last book to make the ranking scores 50.
Where it ranks
- #228 of the 233 romances we rank
- #419 of the 459 fantasy books we rank
- #1472 of the 1,573 modern books we rank
- #2673 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Shortlisted
Nebula Award finalist (2010)Nebula Award finalist (2012, for Glamour in Glass)
Reads as
Adventurous, Moving, Thought-provoking
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