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4 Star Reviews

Rebellion on the rise - The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon

Jazz Baby - Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by David M. Earle (Editor)

“…a person can be more whole with broken parts.” - The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years: A Novel by Shubnum Khan

I do like the PWHL games, though, in my own defense. - The Pilot & The Puck-Up by Pippa Grant; Royally Pucked by Pippa Grant; Beauty & The Beefcake by Pippa Grant; Charming as Puck by Pippa Grant; I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant

How the World Works - Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel; The Constant Gardener by John Le Carré

Metamorphoses for a New Millennium - Fit For the Gods by Jenn Northington (Editor), S. Zainab Williams (Editor)

What Is A Life - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

A romance celebrating Black artists - Reel by Ryan Kennedy

The flavor of cabernet sauvignon had only ever been just okay until Ethan tasted it on Taylor Frost’s lips. - Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky

Her heart was American - Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour: A Japanese American Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption After World War II by Andre R. Frattino

A twist on the amnesia trope - Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

War and a family - Shell Song: Based on a True Family Story by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson

Succession, but make it magic - Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake

You know the cliche about history… - A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan

Quoth the Raven ‘WE ARE MAGNIFICENT’ - The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

A sublime take on Groundhog Day - On the Calculation of Volume, Book I by Solvej Balle

“The ventricles / are unremarkable.” - Fixer by Edgar Kunz

“How easy it is to leave things undone until they are too late.” - Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom

Even Murder Can Be Groovy - It's A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder by Rosemary Martin

“Run away with me. You like tea. I like books. Care to open a shop and forget the world exists?” - Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine - A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine by Reza Aslan

Hot Blood on Cold Ground - City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

Her Maturity is Impressive - The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

A Memoir about More than Just Cats - Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

My 2025 Robin Hobb journey continues - Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb

The Hanged Man: Murder and Tarot - Who Will Remember by C.S. Harris

Murder, Tea and Chinese Food - Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Back to a life of crime - The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon

Back to basics in a good way - Plant Based Cookbook by Trish Sebben-Krupka

“I would shiver the whole night through” - Knife River (2024) by Justine Champine

Into the Woods - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

“I go where I have to go, do what I have to do.” - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

How Would You Handle Being Taken to a Different Time? - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Quiet and Beautiful - Clear by Carys Davies

An Argument Against Immutability and Scientific Racism - The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

Remember, you already are a good mom. - The Influencers by Anna-Marie McLemore

“I generally want to commit a felony when I see him. I’m not sure that’s a sign of romantic compatibility.” - The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick - The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

Into the Spindleverse - Fractured Fables by Alix E. Harrow

God forbid the beautiful, eligible daughter of a duke have hobbies - Lady Knight by Amalie Howard

A Desperate Race in a Dystopian World - The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker

“It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot.” - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: A Novel by Gordon Dahlquist

Mr. Saturday Night - Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison

“I’m a treacherous, power-hungry bitch, and honestly? It feels amazing.” - Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

“I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.”-Freddie Mercury - How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman

“How wonderful! I, too, am filled with an encroaching dread over my own mortality.” - Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

“There is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.” - Dark Fire: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom

Love Isn’t Always On Time - Spy Line by Len Deighton

I love discovering new romance authors - Love at First Flight by Janine Amesta

An old 16 millimeter camera and a real fantasy world - Final Cut by Charles Burnsa

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