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2 Star Reviews

Too much plot makes not a good thriller - Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea

If he wears a shirt, why doesn’t he need pants? - Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal by William H. McRaven

Sometimes even your favorites can disappoint - The Baby-Sitters Club: Claudia and the New Girl by Gabriela Epstein (based on Ann M. Martin's novel)

Let the sun set on this one… - Sunset Bay by Susan Mallery

Possible Unpopular Opinion Here - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Starting off the year with crayons - Crayola A Visual Biography of the World's Most Famous Crayon by Lisa Solomon, Crayola LLC

I’d Rather Juggle Chainsaws - The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

An interesting failure. - True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

Seemed like a good idea in 2005 - Lovemarks by Kevin Roberts

No more Riley Sager books *pour moi*. - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Don’t have a grandfather? Go pick one out at your local senior home - Can You Whistle, Johanna? by Ulf Stark

Run with the Wolves, or Wait for the Bears? - The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan

Frustrating and disappointing on the whole - The Emotional Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff

Got brass in pocket Got bottle I’m gonna use it Intention I feel inventive - The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

Not Derivative Enough - The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas

Small unsatisfying bytes of sci-fi - Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (1934) - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Frightville Population a few supernatural stories - Frightville V01 Don’t Let the Doll In by Mike Ford

Sometimes You Just Get Tired - Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

A trope to get rid of and maybe some more worldbuilding to add - Burn the Witch vol. 1 by Tite Kubo

Cinnamon rolls, cinnamon rolls, cinnamon rolls - Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Might not kill you but just might help cure insomnia - This Lie Will Kill You by Chelsea Pitcher

A Plague of Monsters and maybe Magic - The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giebrecht

Feminist Fluff - Work Strife Balance by Mia Freedman

A somehow really boring corporate espionage technology thriller - Agency by William Gibson

The biggest piece of genius ever written or one big pile of steaming crap - City Monster by Reza Farazmand

There’s always a bigger fish. - MEG: Generations by Steve Alten

“She’s you. You’re her.” “Maybe, but she’s still a complete stranger to me.” - Repeat by Kylie Scott

One to skip - Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

Where No One Has Gone Before… - The Fifty-Year Mission – The Next 25 Years – From the Next Generation to J.J. Abrams by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross

Manly Men Doing Manly Things - The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte

“We might pause to imagine a household in which Stalin is the more loving parent.” - Children of Monsters: An inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators by Jay Nordlinger

Some Legends Don’t Withstand the Test of Time - Bram Stoker's Dracula by Bram Stoker, Edited by Jan Needle

Uneven characters in real and D&D worlds - The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi & Fantasy Role Playing Club by Doug Henderson

I didn’t love Ove. - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Blackout. The Whale has eaten me. I repeat the Whale has eaten me and I am now dead. #CBRBINGO – White Whale - Possession by A.S. Byatt

This was a miss for me. - The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan

Drunk on mediocrity - The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

Breezy and Brief (No Pun Intended) - Take Off Your Pants – Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing by Libbie Hawker

Yay for finishing my Bingo card! But mehhhh to this book. - Stranded by Sarah Goodwin

My general feelings for this book can be summed up as UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH. - Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

Trying to Chef to Hard - Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour to Suit Your Mood by Ed Smith

A hodgepodge of Italians, Poles, Syrians, Lebanese, Greeks and the occasional bearded Amish family… - New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania by Dale Richard Perelman

An Anthology of Errors - Daggers Drawn by Edited by Maxim Jakubowski

Bad Company - Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Not a fruitful weekend - Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

I really, really don’t like giving books bad reviews - The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

Two books I Did Not Like - Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter; Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Growing Up takes a lifetime - Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

Just… so many cops - The Night Thief by Joy Ellis

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