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4 Star Reviews

Manga and Me - Asadora! V01 by Naoki Urasawa

Dying of Whiteness – Jonathan Metzl (2019) - Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl

The Midnight Library: Surprisingly uplifting - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Not an actual Guidebook - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

I Wonder Indeed - And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley

Electric Nightmares - The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag

Space Opera - Dune by Frank Hebert

Feminist Think Pieces - Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay; Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Literary Lessons in Dystopic World - Bungo Stray Dogs vol 16 by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukagawa

Paladins, Clay Men and Bears, Oh My! - Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel Book 2) by T. Kingfisher

Second One’s the Charm I guess - Mary Berry Foolproof Cooking by Mary Berry

Diving into a complicated re-read - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Nameless

A charming Superman tale. - Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang

In many ways, this is every bit as important to speculative fiction as The Lord of the Rings - A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Urban Blues - Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor; Violent Spring by Gary Phillis

Hold on: If you can - A Radical Shift of Gravity by Nick Tapalansky

A beautiful portrait of a white outsider in 1930s Great Depression Kentucky - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Yup, he’s not a vampire. Or is he? - Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner

Niccolò Macchiavelli Gump - Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson

Spoiler Alert: This Book is Nothing but Fun & Sexy Times - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

That will teach Mother to lock her up in a tower…. ah tree-tower - Rapunzel’s Revenge Book 1 by Shannon and Dean Hale

Babies and Bad Management - The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by The Secret Midwife

Reader, I murdered him. And him. And him. Him too. But they were all bad. - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

How many Beauty and the Beast retellings can I get through? Many - When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James

It’s like I see the beginning of something and my brain goes right to the end. - The Home I Find With You by Skye Kilaen

Two out of three in Caste bingo (is not a game I want to win) - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Like a time traveling Bertie Wooster - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

“Bind your fate to mine” - Lore by Alexandra Bracken

A good trilogy ender. - Enlightened (Enlightenment, #3) by Joanna Chambers

An excellent middle book in this historical romance trilogy. - Beguiled (Enlightenment, #2) by Joanna Chambers

Atmospheric seaside mystery. - The Survivors by Jane Harper

Will I quit you, Riordan? I still don’t know. This review is barely about the book, which was good! - The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5) by Rick Riordan

Do the Hustle - Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe

The Book For The Moment - The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather C. McGhee

Somewhat Relevant - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

It’s Not About Arithmetic - Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel

Solid four and a half stars - The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Only the Lonely - Find Her by Lisa Gardner

I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on your doorstep riding an elephant. - It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn

“Who carved a mountain into a cathedral?” - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

We’re going to need a bigger boat - Jaws by Peter Benchley

the only Scream sequel I need - The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

a traditional fairy tale: nasty and unfair - Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

Social and Political with Murder Mystery in Fantasy Historical Setting with a Hint of Romance - The King's Beast vol. 1 by Rei Toma

Crossdressing, murder, and blackmail, oh my! - The Body at the Tower (The Agency #2) by Y. S. Lee

A Love Story Even a Non-Romance Person Can Fall For - Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

If any of my siblings are reading this, I won’t dispose of a body for you - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

“Good Fun” – People and also me - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Would have loved just a smidge more witchcraft - The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Growing Through Travel - Skin by E. M. Reapy

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