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2 Star Reviews

Only read if you really love these characters. - Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

I promise there is pudding under the whipped cream (I needed a snack break) - Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection by Matt Dembicki,

A big disappointment. - The City of Dusk (The Dark Gods, #1) by Tara Sim

Rocky Mountain Why? - The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

Surface Level - Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Ugh - All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions by Iliza Shlesinger

Darwin’s Blade - Darwin's Blade by Dan Simmons

“I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.” - Ruin & Rising (Shadow and Bone #3) by Leigh Bardugo

This book took me ten months to finish (double bingo) - Monstress, vol 1: The Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda

Not a horror but a meditation on an artist’s impact - Devil House by John Darnielle

Rated PG-16 and odd - Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso

Men, Follow Your Dreams! Women, errr- just keep on keeping on - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

No more Tomorrow and I’m ok with that - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Payden gets a party - Payden’s Pronoun Party by Blue Jaryn

The village of hysterical women. - The Village of Eight Graves (Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) by Seishi Yokomizo

“the same thing that we’re always seeking when we travel: to get outside of ourselves and imagine new possibilities” - The Best American Travel Writing 2020 by Jason Wilson (editor)

“My boy was a montage” - The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009) by Jenny Han

Even Dame Agatha phoned one in now and then - Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

Slightly Baffled - Bewilderment by Richard Powers

We get it, you one-punch things… - One-Punch Man, Vol. 3 by One

This isn’t it… - Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga by Sam Maggs

Not-so-thrilling Thriller - Sundial by Catriona Ward

Is that ALL there is? - The All Of It by Jeanette Haien

Bland Stories, Hack Work, Bad Opinions — 60s Sci-Fi Strikes Again - Shards of Space by Robert Sheckley

Writing by Numbers - The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

And I had such high hopes - Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater

Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan would be mortified by this sloppy excuse for a sci-fi romance - The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald

Stoner - New York Dead by Stuart Woods

This is a good little mystery that I couldn’t get into - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

A Well Written Family Memoir That Didn’t Click For Me - She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockers

The sword fighting is more interesting than the romance but not the point - Fence: Disarmed by Sarah Rees Brennan

The Children on the Hill - The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

No Longer Human indeed - No Longer Human Vol. 1 by Junji Ito

Not That Prince Charles - Fairy Tale by Stephen King

An Utterly Underwhelming Account of a Tragedy - No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley

The Heart Forger - The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

I Should Have Known By The Title… - On Being Nice by The School of Life

Closer to Okay - Closer to Okay by Amy Watson

Time for Something New - The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope

Your Favorites Can Still Write Stinkers - Fairy Tale by Stephen King

I don’t understand how a book can end without an ending - All of Us Villians by Amanda Foody, Christine Lynn Herman

No one had ever told them that at the end there was a choice and it is not the dying who make it. - The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan

Why is this Man Mad? - Understudy for Death by Charles Willeford

Best left to the confines of a college writing course - The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

This book really made me not give a F*ck - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

The Third Wife - The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell

I just couldn’t connect with this despite enjoying the author’s previous works - The Raven Spell by Luanne G. Smith

Oh Olive… - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Eat the Rich - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers

Hannibal - Hannibal by Thomas Harris

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