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3 Star Reviews

When fear makes you small, friendship makes you tall - Shrinking Violet by Laurel Snyder and LeUyen Pham

This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune - This Summer Will be Different by Carley Fortune

Marine Life - Meadows of the Sea: The Wonders of Seagrass by Michelle Schaub

Giraffe ferry - The GiRaft: A Real-Life Giraffe Rescue by Laurel Neme and Elisa Paganelli

If you let the wild in - The Wildest Thing by Emily Winfield Martin

Cozy, With a Touch of Christie - Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Various

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.” - Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt

Magical Girls Grown Up - The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

Ghostly and Green - Toilet-bound Hanako-kun vol.22 by Aidalro

A Fragment of Murderbot - Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells

A Frothy Adventure With Hints at Depth - The Selkie Scandal by Rosalie Oaks

Portions for Foxes - Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee

The Quick Brown Fox… - Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Love me, please - Alone Forever: The Singles Collection by Liz Price

The courage to sing - Songbird in the Light: A Picture Book by Billy Porter and Chris Clarkson

Do the Dino - The Dino Door by Josh Funk and Renée Kurilla

We means We - While We the People Is All the People: A Picture Book by Howard W. Reeves and Duncan Tonatiuh

Yaaaaaass Queen! You ruled! - What Kind of Queen?: A Royal Biography of Drag Queen and Activist José Sarria by Kyle Casey Chu, Andrew W. Shaffer and Cindy Lozito

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

A Quizzical Case of Murder - The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

Forty women trapped in a bunker for years - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

“Lies are as dangerous as a sword. They can cut to the bone.” - The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

“In life, if you were careful, there were simply not that many times where you absolutely, positively had to turn into a bear.” - Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

Moving Past Trauma Into Joy - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

“It’s more important to be a good listener than a good musician.” - How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy

Practice what you do - Hello Sleep by Saehan Parc

Bear paws and pause - Bear by Himself by Geoffrey Hayes

Rooting out the truth - I Am Not Boring: The True-Life Story of a Log by Lena Podesta

Parents! Whatcha gunna do? - The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon by Audrey Barbakoff

Grateful for Soccer - Morgan Plays Soccer by Anne Rockwell; Look and Be Grateful by Tomie dePaola

Friends stick together - Sloth & Moth: A Better-Together Friendship by Helen Taylor

Monsters and nightmares - Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Why Does the Husband Always Suck? - We Used to Live Here by Daniel Hurst

When someone is that calm in a crisis, either they don’t know what’s happening, or you don’t. - The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley

Cozy Spooky Sexy Fun - The Ex Hex (Graves Glen #1) by Erin Sterling

“The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors” - Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me (Anthony’s Story) by Julia Quinn

“Oh, of course. Mediocre men receiving positions of power they haven’t earned because of their birthrights. How against the grain.” - Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain, 3) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

The movie scared me so bad it took 20 years to read the book. - Ring by Koji Suzuki

The novel doesn’t quite live up to the magic of the setting - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Hmmm - You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh

A Few Twists But Not My Favourite - A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay

when an author gets too excited by world building - Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

Witches But in September - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

“Travelling Through Thick Woods With a Troop of Goblins Is Not Unlike a Nature Hike With a Group of Grumpy Toddlers With Weapons” - Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher

So easy even Humans can get them - Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld

A Bit of Illogical Fun - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.” - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Life of a Wife Guy - A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri

Need a little more plot in my fiction - Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Scared Sexy Short Stories - Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood; Falling by Christina Lauren; Spicy Little Curses by J.T. Geissinger; Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon; Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert; All My Boyfriends are Monsters by Kimberly Lemming

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