Henry Castle is no Richard Castle, that’s for sure - Loves Me, Loves Me Not by Libby Malin
Not so sweet - The Sweet Spot by Stephanie Evanovich
You say, the price of my love’s not a price that you’re willing to pay - Who Do You Love? by Jennifer Weiner
“I feel it – I’ve been living in a world, but what I have is a universe” - You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour, David Levithan
too many bennies - Book of Blues by Jack Kerouac
“People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.” - At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Death is only the beginning of the reunion you did not know you wanted - The Returned by Jason Mott
Slow your roll, Nicholas Sparks - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Preachy Fairy Tale - The Shadow of the Bear: A Fairy Tale Retold by Regina Doman
Theater of the Absurd in the Mediterranean Theater - Catch- 22 by Joseph Heller
If only I’d read this right after the others - Winter by Marissa Meyer
If only these novels stayed in The Edge - Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews
“As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.” - You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan
Fish Are Boring and I Don’t Really Like Them - Cod: A Biography of fish that changed the world by Mark Kurlansky
I Promise I Tried With This One - The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
How can something so weird be so unmemorable? - The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
Yes, there’s also Chewbacca origami - The Secret of the Fortune Wookie by Tom Angleberger
“After all, in this life we do not know what lies before us.” - The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
Shades of Red - When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
I really hated these bitches - Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Borderlands means black and white morality I guess? - Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews
They were smart to turn this into a movie instead - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills - Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Babes in the Wood - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
“All these lives,” she said. “All the stories we never know.” - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
“Smile, it can’t be that bad! Yeah, actually it can.” - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
I reject your heroine and substitute my own, part II: the ginger mollusc - The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
Stereotypical Girl with a Terrible Home Life - Survivor of the Rain by Cassandra Webb
“The past is just something that’s over.” - A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
A disappointing and sneakily non-affirming book - Love is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community by Andrew Marin
Repetitive sequel adds nothing to the series - Shifter by Alma Alexander
Camping in the snow is not so sexy - Darkness by Karen Robards
Lazy Daisies…Mild Wildflowers… - Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heablerlin
I didn’t like it, and I feel really bad about that - Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The worst road trip since Crossroads - Perfect Days by Raphael Montes
That “Blah” Feeling When Something Is Objectively Fine But Just Not for You - Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
Ah, Ableism - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Predictable, Boring Gothic Romance - The Shadows of Stormclyffe Hall by Lauren Smith
Poirot would not approve of this lack of Order. - The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
Not Too Subtle, Eh? - The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
The Last Deb - Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes
When we finally learn to time travel, it will probably be just as boring as this - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Don’t let them know what you’re against or what you’re for - The Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
“Dig me out, dig me in. Outta this mess, baby, outta my head” - Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Day After Day - another day by David Levithan
You have to do more than just change the terminology to make it sound new - Tankborn by Karen Sandler
A Sad, Disappointing End - The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne Valente
I Wanted Him to Die Quicker - Denton Little's Deathdate by Lance Rubin
Meh. A lot. - White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
An extended grumble with a few facepalms and at least one out loud “WHY” - A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev