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2 Star Reviews

The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga #3) - The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart

Two books for the price of no thanks - Brilliance & The Last Policeman by Marcus Sakey & Ben H. Winters

A book whose reviews might be more entertaining… - The Good Neighbor by A.J. Banner

I wish I hadn’t read this, but also I’m glad I did so I can stop worrying about it and just forget it exists. - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany & J.K. Rowling

Not Really About Loving Cleve - The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane

A magical ice apocalypse in Dublin - Iced: Fever Series Book 6 by Karen Marie Moning

The Not So Amazing Adventures of Zelikman & Amram - Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Running Just as Fast as He Can - The Flash: Vol. 5 History Lessons and The Flash: Vol. 6: Out of Time by Brian Buccellato and Robert Venditti

wtaf - Out by Natsuo Kirino

Goblins, Gnomes, Cobs, Oh My! - The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

A World War II story that did not impress - The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

“What’s life for?” - Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

Orientalism at its whitest - Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson

Cannonball!!! - Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Vol. 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A Christmas Romance - A Wallflower Christmas (Wallflowers #5) by Lisa Kleypas

And Sometimes You Just Shouldn’t Read the Sequel - Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter

Thunderbird shifter hero<Dragon shifter hero - Storm's Heart by Thea Harrison

The Middle Sister is Made of Meh – CBR 8 – Review #1 - The Songbird's Call by Rachael Herron

Disappointment in space - Probability Space by Nancy Kress

I don’t care how inbred he was, I’m not going to feel bad for this guy - Darkness Under the Sun (What The Night Knows 0.5) by Dean Koontz

Not just a plot twist, but an entire genre twist! - Oxygen by Carol Cassella

Another frustrating stab at Turkish existentialism - The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk

“The madness inside will haunt you forever…” - The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Plucky Heroine is Stupid - The Glass Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

This book had some great elements that just did not come together in any cohesive way - Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney

We’re all so much alike, and yet so utterly different. - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Cross, Cross, Cross … - Mary Mary by James Patterson

“Barrel Fever” is the DTs, FYI - Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays by David Sedaris

What was I really expecting, with a title like that… - fml by Shaun David Hutchinson

“An atmosphere, a force – I do not exactly know what to call it – of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger” - The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Where’d You Go, Maria Semple - This One is Mine by Maria Semple

A Lot Less Special Than I Wanted it to Be - Murder at Ford's Theatre by Margaret Truman

A disappointing sequel to a book I adored - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry #2) by Rachel Joyce

“I’d sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke’s than utter the words ‘you guys’.” - Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments by Celia Rivenbark

Online Reviews Are Unreliable, As If More Proof Were Needed - Sweet Girl by Cristin Harber

The “terror” here quickly becomes pretty dull - Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson

Sure the dogs are fine but the LAMBS - Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman

This book made me so angry that I have to remind myself what I liked about it so I don’t rate it lower then I already have. - Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews

Less romantic and more just tragic - Keepsake by Sarina Bowen

Oh, Brother - Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

Mike Mullane: juvenile ass & proud of it! - Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane

Early Fantasy: Long Stories in Which Not Much Happens - The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

Gone, Baby, Gone - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

After a While You Get Used to Mediocre Memoirs - After A While You Just Get Used To It: A Tale of Family Clutter by Gwendolyn Knapp

Please don’t kick me out… - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Yet Another Childhood Favorite Ruined - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Fairytale Retellings that Didn’t Speak to Me - Black Swan, White Raven by Ellen Datlow (editor)

A Slight Trick of the Mind - The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout

Bland and annoying - Coming In From the Cold by Sarina Bowen

Glenn Beck’s fever dream. - Rapunzel Let Down: A Fairy Tale Retold by Regina Doman

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