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3 Star Reviews

Meat(ball) Cute - Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

Insubstantial Fluff - A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons by J. Penner

Putting ideas about the past to the test - Dinner with King Tut by Sam Kean

“Why do you want my voice?” “Because I’m a sassy sea witch and I’m gonna keep it in a nautilus necklace, then use it to steal your man from right under your nose” - Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

Purple for the Spooky Science - The Glass Scientists vol. 1 by S. H. Cotucino

Accidentally Lost, Found, Returned - The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond by Amy Sparkes

I will love her and pet her and squeeze her and call her Georgie. - Ice Planet Barbarians (Special Edition) by Ruby Dixon

Evil Geniuses Come in All Ages - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

I’m still not going camping, but I’ll read about it - The Best Worst Camp Out Ever by Joe Cepeda

Her voice - Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open: Poems by Diane Seuss

Some cheer - The Old Sleigh by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey

Priest with Holy tattoos and brandish machine guns in the face of demons - Covenant V02 by LySandra Vuong

Not sure I am going to bother with book 3 - The Blighted Stars by Megan E O’Keefe; The Fractured Dark by Megan E O’Keefe

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

“The only thing every love story really has in common is that it’s worth it.” - Not in My Book by Katie Holt

Experience of sadness - Sad Book by Michael Rosen

One tough Cookie - Rainbow Cookies by Lesléa Newman

We can still talk about summer books - Summer Solstice Wish by Kate Allen Fox and Elisa Paganelli

A Spooky Read for Spooky Season - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Not Quite What I Was Expecting - Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

“She wanted to read stories that had been written with care, by a writer who’d wrestled with words, who might have sworn at the computer and procrastinated by cleaning the entire apartment and furiously dictated notes in the middle of the night” - Magically Generated by Jackie Lau

Welcome to my Two Books in One Review review  - Thank You, School by Louise Borden; Finding My Wave by Alexandra Katona

Dance like your ancestors are watching - I Am a Bon Dancer by Brandi-Ann Uyemura

So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison - So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

Would have been better without the forced thriller/mystery angle - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Takes a “Characters Welcome” first approach - The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

“Every war is a war against the child.” - The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you’ll never see reflected what’s inside. - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Asian inspired urban fantasy series? Yes, please - Ebony Gate by Julia Vee

Dragons, Art and Noodles - A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim

What is a flop, anyway? - Box Office Poison by Tim Robey

B*Witched - The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Good, the Bad and the Horny - Apprentice to the Villain: A Novel by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

A pig needs a knife - Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin

And now there’s a ghost cat, as if a dead body wasn’t enough. - Something Whiskered (A Cat in the Stacks Mystery #17) by Miranda James

Dependable, violent fun from Ilona Andrews - The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

No Wings Needed, but Maybe a Better Editor? - We Need No Wings by Ann Dávila Cardinal

Round on the Ends, High in the Middle - Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

Refusing to conform to stereotypical gender norms on two different continents - My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende

A new spin on an old idea - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Unremarkable? Not anymore, Brian Reyes! - Unicorn Boy Volume One by Dave Roman

“Magic Is the First and Last Religion of the World. It Has the Power to Make Us Whole.” - Imajica by Clive Barker

1930s Cinema History - Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934 by Thomas Doherty

“People say, I’ll give anything. The universe listens. But the universe doesn’t listen when you say, Wait, not that.” - Long Live Evil: Time of Iron Book One by Sarah Rees Brennan

Size does matter - The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson

Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh - Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh

Not much edge to the veg - The Edgy Veg by Candice Hutchings

“I’ll watch and I’ll wait. I’m seventeen, and I have a thousand brilliantly hued hazardous sunrises to spare.” - Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid

Talk to the mountain - I Am the Mountain by Steven Weinberg

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.” - The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (translator)

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