Embers Burn Out - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir; A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir; A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir; A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir
Cool cover, repetitive plot - Of Mates & Magic by Maggie Francis
Sprawling, impressive, and oddly hollow - Everfair by Nisi Shawl
“I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.” - Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” - The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3) by Deborah Harkness
Don’t give up the ghost - Sheets V01 by Brenna Thummler
No Country For Grieving Mothers - Stolen by Tess Stimson
“Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.” - A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) by V.E. Schwab
Are Giants Scarier than Climate Change? - Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
“I liked maps that didn’t lead to destinations. I was all about the journey, refusing to give intense thought as to where it would trap me.” - Bad Luck Bridesmaid by Alison Rose Greenberg
Petticoat Government - Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
If a certain two movies were combined with a certain novel this is what you’d get - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Tool of War - Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi
Them - Them by Jon Ronson
Fanning Out - Fan Club by Erin Mayer
Be the Hero - The Mythics #4: Global Chaos by Patrick Sobral and Patricia Lyfoung
A pleasant but rambling (and jarring) journey - Where the Dear and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
What a fall from greatness… - Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
Revelator: Sometimes God is One of Us - Revelator: A Novel by Daryl Gregory
More Than A Body - Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend by Christina Rice
Growing up Absurd - Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
“In the stories, there was a sense of justice. Everything had a purpose…I thought if those heroes and heroines from the stories could keep going forward into the darkness, so could I.” - Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
And here I always wanted a snow day - When the Schools Shut Down : A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's "Lost Generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision by Yolanda Gladden
Presenting Who You Are - Who Are Your People? by Bakari Sellers
The spirit of the season is never never too late to read about - Red and Green and Blue and White by Lee Wind
Not For Me - Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
New year, (very) old history - Incredible Archaeology by Paul Bahn
Teenage me would have loved it, adult me is more ‘meh’ - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
The Magicless Hero who Muscles His Way Through, and we’ve seen it all before - Mashle: Magic and Muscles, vols. 1-2 by Hajime Komoto
Like a Hallmark movie in book form, and all that implies. - The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox
When the Sequel Improves on the First, But Still Leaves Room for Improvement - Infinity Reaper by Adam Silvera
I Wanted This To Be Better Than It Was - Infinity Son by Adam Silvera
Drinks to Read By (and Watch Movies With Too) - Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle, Lauren Mortimer (Illustrator) ; Gone with the Gin: Cocktails with a Hollywood Twist by Tim Federle, Lauren Mortimer (Illustrator)
Hades and Persephone: The New Power Couple - Neon Gods by Katee Robert
Ponyboy? Seriously? - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
A literary mystery where the stuff on the side is more interesting than the main course. - Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.” - The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1) by Holly Black
Fiction Reviews Dump - She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chain; Another Place You've Never Been by Rebecca Kauffman; The Idiot by Elif Batuman; Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters; On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong; Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk; Dietland by Sarai Walker ; A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
The Prestige, but with teenagers and in the Pacific Northwest - Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson
Too short and too long at the same time - Blue-Skinned Gods by S.J. Sindhu
“It never occurred to me that you might be mine.” - In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
It started out fun - Beach Read by Emily Henry
The old west gets fenced in - The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry
Lost in (audiobook) translation - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophy, nature, and ecology - Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
“It turns out life isn’t a puzzle that can be solved one time and it’s done. You wake up every day, and you solve it again.” – Chidi Anagonye - Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez
Hunting vampires is always a dangerous business - Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton
The dogs were the best part - Killing Trail by Margaret Mizushima
Lost in The Midnight Library - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
A pretty good read for the holidays - Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty