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2 Star Reviews

Gin Bianco is an assassin. She won’t shut up about it, in fact - Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep

Son of a *itch - Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

No excuse for another Reacher knock-off by Baldacci - The Forgotten by David Baldacci

Love is a broken pickle dish. - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

A Study in Ambiguous Endings and Disappointment - The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

Gothic crime and Victorian intrigue - Rustication by Charles Palliser

London calling to the underworld - Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

A South Pole Memoir with a side of Passivity - Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielson

A dystopian disappointment - The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Uninterested Reader - The Uninvited Guests: A Novel by Sadie Jones

Eat, Sleep, Game, Repeat…? - A.D.D. Adolescent Demo Division by Douglas Rushkoff

A Bear and a Maiden Sparklepony - The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Rare Occasion When the Movie Is Better - Sleepwalk With me by Mike Birbiglia

Unexpected, in some ways that you want and in some that you don’t - A Duke Never Yields by Juliana Gray

Fine If You’re Not Holding Out For Accuracy - Alaska By Cruise Ship by Anne Vipond

Math is hard. Also bad for novels. - Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright

Like a Good Salad - Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Sappy pulp fiction - Riot: A novel by Shashi Tharoor

Leaps In the Dust - Dust by Patricia Cornwell

I like the OTHER scarlet letter better - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Trying hard to sensationalize common sense. - Outliers: The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

Weekend in Snoozeville - Weekend in Paris by Robyn Sisman

How to Make an Interesting Topic Unbearable - The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases by Michael Capuzzo

How can you be a teenage misfit when your parents applaud and encourage rebellion? - Teori og praksis (Theory and practice) by Nikolaj Frobenius

insert quippy remark here - Why We Suck by Denis Leary

You you you you you you you you you TOO MANY YOU’S. - The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

I Am Pilgrim, Hear Me Bore - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Peer Pressure and Cartoon Villainy - The Dare by RL Stine

A Novel of Ridiculous Coincidences - Sunburn by RL Stine

Ever Heard of a Broken Aesop? - The Cheater by RL Stine

Mad at Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy by Helen Fielding

Things That Go “Blah” in the Night - Eerie by Blake Crouch

So Much to Recommend It, But It Didn’t Live Up: Guests on Earth - Guests on Earth by Lee Smith

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

CANNONBALL! “Shadow Lord ”: Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #52 - Shadow Lord by Laurence Yep

Pemberley Has Problems - Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Fun Quick Read - I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer

If everyone belonged to only 1 of 5 categories, which would you be? NONE because that’s ridiculous. - Divergent by Veronica Roth

A Snob reviews The Shack - The Shack by William Paul Young

If this book were a T-Pain song, it would be called, “I’m in love with a student.” - The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

A Southern Trainwreck of a Novel - South of Broad by Pat Conroy

Never Trust a Man Called Gaston - Seven for a Secret by Victoria Holt

Well-Hung Angels and the Anxious Investment Bankers Who Love Them - Trinity Stones: The Angelorum Twelve Chronicles by L.G. O'Connor

“Hush” A play script Vangie13 cbr #48 - Hush by April de Angelis

A Promising Start That Turns Into One of the Worst Love Triangles Ever - Splintered by A.G. Howard

A book easy enough for your dog to understand, but maybe not you. - How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel

The Harm in Asking - The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race by Sara Barron

Somewhat Spotty Storytelling - The Incrementalists by Steven Brust and Skyler White

pAper TownS - Paper Towns by John Green

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