When Does Pastiche Cross the Line into Copying? - Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall
Celebrity encounters and other tales - You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: And Other Stories by Alan Cumming
“She loves music,” he said. ‘If she loves music, why does she do this?’ I asked.” - Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!! the Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer by Darryl W. Bullock
A lot has changed in 12 years - Yeah, I Said It by Wanda Sykes
Can I say it sucked? - Thirsty by M.T. Anderson
Next Time I’m Renting the Movie - White Bulger, The FBI, and A Devil's Deal: Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Mediocre Mismatch - Mismatch by Tami Hoag
I Read This Book and I Have No Recollection - Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovitch
A Book Review About a Book I Cannot Remember…Let’s See How This Goes - The Drowning Game by LS Hawker
The review in which a misunderstanding and an international incident lead to a DNF - The Girl You Lost by Kathryn Croft
Between okay and dumpster fire… - A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean
Boom! Crash! Cannonball. - Storm Front by Jim Butcher
A resounding meh - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
“Hm,’ said Bond. ‘Bogeyman stuff.” - Live and Let Die (James Bond #2) by Ian Fleming, read by Rory Kinnear
A Deep Cut of a Mary Balogh - A Masked Deception by Mary Balogh
Get off my lawn, you little punk - Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
“To quote one Valley sage, if your idea is any good, it won’t get stolen, you’ll have to jam it down people’s throats instead.” - Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Bad Bond Knock-off - Scratch One by John Lange (penname of Michael Crichton)
Why do I punish myself and continue to make myself finish books I’m no longer interested in? - Scoundrel by Zoë Archer
“The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.” - Armada by Ernest Cline
A Book To Cure Insomnia - Teaching Spanish, My Way by Dee Eldredge
And now…my LEAST favorite L’Engle - Many Waters by Madeleine L'engle
Eh. - The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
If by “Legend” you mean “won’t be remembered next week,” sure. - Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu
Kinda Boring, for a Thriller - The President's Shadow by Brad Meltzer
The Movie Looks Better - Nerve by Jeanne Ryan
Everyone else seems to like this, just FYI. - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Read one of Meljean Brook’s other paranormals instead - Frozen by Meljean Brook
Something a bit familiar about this one… - Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Another problematic medical memoir. - Something for the Pain by Paul Austin
This one starts decently but then…it gets worse - It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays by Shane Dawson
Space! Romance! Murder! - In the Black by Sheryl Nantus
That Was Definitely Not What I Thought It Would Be - More Than This by Patrick Ness
How can moving dead bodies be dull? And yet…here we are. - Body Movers by Stephanie Bond
Mostly the Same, but Worse - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
Pretty sure Abigail Bartlet wouldn’t have put up with Mat with one T - First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Stephanie Plum: no character development since 2005 - Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
“It was her style, that indefinable asset. It was said that the others had style but Babe was style.” - The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
“I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.” - When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord
Too much magic in this magic realism - Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Just So-So Stories - Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe
90% great, 10% WHAT?! - Bedside Manners by David Watts
Naughty Vikings Need Love Too - The Angel Wore Fangs: A Deadly Angels Book by Sandra Hill
Halfway to Goal - The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Maybe she’s not the best role model - The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Weird Sisters - Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
Sneak Preview of The Flash Season 3 - Flashpoint by Geoff Johns
The Man Without a Story - Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller
“But are they the right sort of pe..”” zzzzzz - A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
“There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old…” - Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan