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3 Star Reviews

A VERY NSFW MUST READ - Claimed by Em Brown; Claimed Darker by Em Brown; Claimed Harder by Em Brown

Mystic Bayou Binge – Shifters and Curses and Pie - How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper; Love and Other Wild Things by Molly Harper; Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper; Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper; Always Be My Banshee by Molly Harper; One Fine Fae by Molly Harper; Shifters in the Night by Molly Harper

Turns out I need *some* plot (not very much though) - The Sea Witch by Katee Robert

Not on par with her best, but even at her worst she’s a good read - Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston

Dragons and Humans Go Together like…Oil and Water - Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Someone’s Listening… - Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass

To what extent can we forgive an ending? - The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

The Adrift Feeling on the Cover is Very Apt for the Mood of this Novel - Block Seventeen by Kimiko Guthrie

“Beware of the clever ones. The dumb ones are safer. - The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun

“I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel.” - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

A Romance That Needs More Magic - The Sumage Solution by G. L. Carriger

Books in Their Time - Beast in View by Margaret Millar

This is no wonky donkey - Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech

Swedish serial killer short stories - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Turston

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” - I Would be Doing this Anyway by Jia Tolentino; Rewards by Emma Cline; Crewelwork by Justin Torres; The Tomorrow Box by Curtis Sittenfeld; If You Are Lonely and You Know It by Yiyun Li; The Summer House by Cristina Henriquez; Me and Carlos by Tom Perrotta; Simplexity by Kiley Reid

Everywhere You Are is Beautiful - The Sweetest Charade by Jadesola James

I honestly would have enjoyed just reading about what it’s like to be an opera singer - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

I’m Naked! I’m Naked! I’m Me! - Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown

The Lola Quartet - The Lola Quartet by Emily St John Mandel

Annie and Nico are waiting to take you away - Magical History Tour Volume 4: The Crusades by Fabrice Erre

Love, Actually is not a good movie - Shit, Actually by Lindy West

Let’s Go - Letting Go of Gravity by Meg Leder

Two Scottish bozos in a camper van. - Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish

Break a leg - Roxy the Unisaurus Rex Presents: Oh NO! The Talent Show by Eva Chen

Trying to find a new read, I found this and a few things about me. - Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

Pride Month is going full swing and is slaying. - Pride Puppy! by Robin Stevenson

More Gossip Girl than Grimm’s - Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon

If at first you don’t succeed…then that is probably normal and nothing to worry about! - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

By your powers combined, I am Captain Wallflower! - Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1) by Lisa Kleypas

“Turned out that being with someone is an acquired skill. There is an art to it. Basically, you have to watch your partner take a chisel—or a war hammer, depending on the day—and chip away at the ideal version of them that you’ve created in your mind. The person you fall in love with is always slightly different from the person you need to stay in love with. More real and more flawed, but also more complex and better defined.” - The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood

You Love Me – Caroline Kepnes (2021) - You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes

Extra Reading - Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews; Players by Don DeLillo; A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke; Louise Hathcock: Queen of the State Line Mob by Robert Broughton; Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark

This is why we can’t have nice things - Moneyland by Oliver Bullough

How to use your embroidery needle as a weapon in the war against the status quo - A single thread by Tracy Chevalier

“Now demons, whatever else they may be, are full of interest” - Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Conspiracy of Fools - Wedding Station by David Downing

A screenplay that would be better as a movie - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

A lot of characters to follow, three plots, and wondering if or when it will all make sense - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

She Seems Like A Lot, But Also, So What - The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

The ones without names - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

“I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself” Charlotte Bronte - Bronte by Manuela Santoni

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson (1992) - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Body Farm – Patricia Cornwell (1994) - The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell

Great premise about a character who is freed from a cult but wants to go back; did not like where he went with it. - First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara

The one where the main character is a giant worm with arms. - God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4) by Frank Herbert

The play is the thing….but life is more complicated than that (or is it?) - Please Come Off-Book by Kevin Kantor

Just like never meet your heroes, don’t revisit a childhood favorites unless you are ready for an eye-opener - The Smurfs and the Bratty Kid by Peyo

Friends and publisher decisions kinda ruined this - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

McGee #3 - A Purple Place for Dying by John D. Macdonald

Song and Dance, Man - The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel

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