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4 Star Reviews

Magic school from a fresh perspective - The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Three books - Love at a Funeral and Other Awkward Conversations by Sophie Andrews; Tangled Ambitions by Sophie Andrews; The Bartender’s Baby by Sophie Andrews

“Had me in the first half, I’m not going to lie..” - Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long; Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long; Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long; I Kissed An Earl by Julie Anne Long; What I Did for A Duke by Julie Anne Long

Probably best to skip the mystery dumplings at the night market - Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau

I’m More Myself with You than Anyone Else - Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks

Right book at the right time - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Power and the Written Word - Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

Are All of Robin Hobb’s Books a Masterclass in Writing? - Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

Nutshell I Needed - The Mini Rough Guide to Athens by Various

Another female scientist finds her happily ever after - Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Something Cheeky by Thien-Kim Lam - Something Cheeky by Thien-Kim Lam

The Grief of Wisdom - Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler

Calvin and Hobbes or Jackson and Irwin adventures? - Jackson's Wilder Adventures V02 Dentistry and Dreams, by Sarah Davidson

“The greatest happiness…is to sneeze when you want to.” - The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Burn it down, baby. Be my hero.” - All Superheroes Need PR by Elizabeth Stephens

Sunrise of the Weeping - Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

she’s got bollocks the size of blimps - The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1) by Brigitte Knightley

Do not mistake this kindness. I simply want to be the one who breaks you. - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

You Can Never Go Home - Girl A by Abigail Dean

there need to be about a million more Death books than there are - Mort by Terry Pratchett

when humans take art and make it better by ignoring the s****y artist - Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare

Enjoyable Murder - The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein - Grimm's Fairy Tales Illustrated by Arthur Rackham by various, illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” - Irish Fairy Tales by D.L. Ashliman

We All Know Facebook Is Not Good, Right? - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

“My son, I loved my native land with energy and pride ‘Til a blight came over all my crops and my sheep and cattle died” - Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan

“One news came straight huddling on another Of death and death and death” - The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

When Every Morning Starts with Chaos - The Unmapping by Denise S. Robbins

Intimacies, or, How Lipgloss Led to my 13th CBR Review - Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

what happens when you impulse murder a monarch - Anji Kills a King (The Rising Tide, #1) by Evan Leikam

Welcome to your life. There’s no turning back. - Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler

A delightful scifi Sherlock retelling with aliens and disability rep. - A Study in Black Brew by Marie Howalt

What is a Pest? - Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

“Bourbon in the blood and blood in the bourbon” - The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz

Sandwich - Sandwich by Catherine Newman

A Week for Pop Culture Exploration of Fascist Themes - Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

And right then and there, I knew there was hope. I’ve never grabbed on to a feeling so fast or so tight. - Left of Forever by Tarah DeWitt

“There’s some cursing. A lot. It’s kind of impressive.” - Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis

I cried six times while reading this memoir slash podcast slash pop culture book. - Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On by Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs

Deeply Dippy - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Mosfegh

The boy who became a fighter - Worthy : The Brave and Capable Life of Joseph Pierce by Andrea Wang

It’s a Hard Knock Life - Living by Henry Green

Comfort grease, foie gras and Mexican porn - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

Do you think I read a lot? - Clara the Triumphant Rhinoceros: A True Story by Jane Kurtz; Woody's Words : Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers; Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver. by Sara Holly Ackerman

Get A LOT of boxes of tissues - Yumi and Monster by Kam Redlawsk

From Yehiel to Henri - The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man's Journey Across Wartime Europe by Uri Shulevitz

From Innocent to not so - A Smart and Courageous Child by Miki Yamamoto

An Indie-Published YA Fantasy - A Discovery of Talents by Phoenix McDonald

Super-Sharks, Web Safety, and Instant Oatmeal (Animorphs 15-17) - The Escape by K.A. Applegate; The Warning by K.A. Applegate; The Underground by K.A. Applegate

In the Still of the Night - The Moonshine War by Elmore Leonard

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