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2 Star Reviews

By the Numbers (or I miss Tony and Tia) - I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

Death Chicken Died On The Way Back to His Home Planet - Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind

Following the Space-Time Continuum Always Ends With Your Head Up Your Ass - Paths Not Taken by Simon R. Green

Secrets Are Bad,Yo - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

In which I am about to make Fox News suuuuper angry. - American Sniper by Chris Kyle

Bookstore Shmookstore - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Sing a Sad Song and Make It Way F–king Worse - Nightingale's Lament by Simon R. Green

The World Need Not End Because You’re A Shitty Boyfriend - Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind

Quoth the Raven “Oh, God, What for?” – Supernatural: Nevermore - Supernatural: Nevermore by Keith R.A. DeCandido

I Had Some Different Expectations as to What This Would Involve - Children Helping Children with Grief by Beverly L. Chappell

This book is too boring for me to come up with a good title. - The Young Elites by Marie Lu

Disappointing in so many ways - Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Isla and the I couldn’t care less - Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Me Read Funny Essays One Day - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

If you like dick jokes, this is the book for you - Everything is Wrong With Me: An American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong by Jason Mulgrew

London, you’re a Lady - London's Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn

A Harlan Coben mystery which failed to inspire - The Woods by Harlan Coben

Baby Blues - Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis by Cara Black

Damn It Can Someone Just Make a Decision Already? - Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers by David Perlmutter

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much are gifs worth? - The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

I Swear, I Like Romance…Really! - It Ain't Me Babe by Tillie Cole

If Dexter Had A Baby with Supernatural - I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

A memoir that left me with mixed feelings - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

And While We’re At It, Fuck Rupert Brooke, Too - If I Should Die by Matthew Frank

Nope. And too goddamned long. - In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin

Alternative Title: Miss Pym is an Awful House Guest, For Many Reasons - Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

More like the eye-roll in the dark - The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell

All the Cliches You Never Wanted - What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman

Based on a semi-true story? - Miramont's Ghost by Elizabeth Hall

YMMV on this very well-written, hard-to-put-down book with a been-there-done-that ‘surprise’ ending that I nevertheless didn’t like all that much. - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Half Angels vs. Half Angels (With Pictures) - Nephilites: Awakenings by Matt McDowell

This did not live up to its promise. - California by Edan Lepucki

Souls cross ages, like clouds cross skies - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

One of Those Things That I Only Read Because I Had To - Case Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy by Gerald Corey

Not So Legend-waitforit-dary - Neil Patrick Harris: choose your own autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris

Eh. I Mean, Fine. But Eh. - The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau

Kids, Always Have Safe Sex After a Heart Transplant - With This Heart by R.S. Grey

NOmentum - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Worst John Le Carré book ever. - Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Bad in Baltimore – A Fitting Name - Bad Company (Bad in Baltimore) by K. A. Mitchell

Fooled by a name and a good cover - Sneeze on Sunday by Andre Norton and Grace Allen Hogarth

Of Birds and Bees - The Hive by Gill Hornby

The twist is that the vampire is NOT the merciless serial killer - Ex Sanguine by Tim Seeley

Papercut by Polaroids, I Bled To Death Looking For A Band-Aid - Threats by Amelia Gray

So You Think You Can Creative? - Show Up, Look Good by Mark Wisniewski

Shine on you crazy diamond - The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Not the fun “can I put brownies in the waffle iron” kind of experiment - The Experiment by John Darnton

You know that thing? When you get all excited for a sequel? And then it kinda sucks? Yeah. That. - Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

A Middling End for an Up and Down Trilogy - The Death Cure by James Dashner

Preston & Child’s Pendergast Series has Lost its Heart - Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

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