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2 Star Reviews

Symbiont- Eh? - Symbiont by Mira Grant

There Are Some Weird Deeds Here - Dangerous Deeds;The Westport Mysteries. Lizzie Book 1 by Beth Prentice

Awful Melodies but okay read - The Popularity Papers: Book Five: The Awesomely Awful Melodies of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang by Amy Ignatow 

More of a Dissertation Than I Wanted - Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker by Dr Jackie Ui Chionna

This novella is about as short as my review - The Witch Must Burn by Danielle Paige

The Thingity-Jigs story - The Thingity-Jig by Kathleen Doherty

Thanks for you - Little Mole Gives Thanks by Glenys Nellist

Not Abridged But It Felt Like It Was - Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

House hunters - Where Can We Go?: A Tale of Four Bears by Dai Yun

Disappointing - How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire by Andreas Malm

You got kids? This book gots kids. - Stay My Baby by Lana Button

Spoiler: Children are Friends, not Food. - I’m Hungry! by Elise Gravel

A Disappointing Sequel - This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

Blackout- The final book in this slog - Blackout by Mira Grant

Deadline- And the decline begins - Deadline by Mira Grant

I’m totally the demographic for this, and yet… - How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women by Sarah Cooper

Taking the easy joke here, this book made me want to die inside. - Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

Wow, what a bummer. - The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

Too tropey high school survivalist story makes me feel old - Classroom of the Elite vols 1-5 by Yuyu Ichino, Syougo Kinugasa

To Be a Diplomat’s Wife - An Unusual Courtship by Lynne Connolly

Tom Joad needs a bath - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Tackling the wrong tough topic… - The Couple Upstairs by Holly Wainwright

Deja Vu all over again - The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

“What was worse, being invisible or being seen? It was exhausting, the ego, the desire to be noticed – even admired – always dilating and contracting, flapping open and crumpling closed, over and over and over.” - We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

Broken Glass - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

For such a warm title, this one left me cold - Smolder by Laurell K. Hamilton

The series ended with the softest and boringest of whimpers - Grace Under Fire by Julie Garwood

Scarlet Miss - The Scarlet Ruse by John D. Macdonald

Well, at least I knew what I was getting into. - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Not My Flavor - The Flanders Road by Claude Simon

How are you supposed to win if the deck is stacked against you? - Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

I’m sorry, “heavily fringed orbs” is not a sexy way to talk about your international anti-magic stalker’s pretty eyes, and all y’all are dumbasses - A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Hello Mudder - Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Trust My Gut - How to Do The Work: Reconise Your Patters, Heal from you Past, and Create Your Self by Dr Nicole LePera

Batman the B!tch and other Running Stories and Rules - Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDugall, Eric Orton

Historical Fiction Doesn’t Always Work - Lilliam Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney

If you’ve read The Guest List, you can skip this one - The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

On the Fence - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

This book, like a toot, if forced is probably s**t - Hello, My Name is Poop by Ben Katzner

Holden Caulfield is the Worst - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Not my favorite - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

Did Something Bad Actually Happen or Is She Just An Addict? *Sigh* I Hate These Books - The House in the Pines: A Novel by Ana Reyes

He had taken in the country, and in his eyes and his mind it had been changed, marked by his own individuality, and made part of him. - Out of Africa by Isak Denison

Glow baby, glow - Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

Ten Sides to Every Story - The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

CBR15 Passport! Book #1 – A book that is Not For Moi. - Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

Don’t be ashamed of yourself - Ashamed by Steven Lundle

Stop, Thief! That’s my color! - The Great Barrier Thief by Dr. Sue Pillans

Important freckles - Emma’s Freckles by Sarah Wallace

Wish it was something funner - Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

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