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4 Star Reviews

“The future isn’t a warning my friend, it’s a promise.” - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

‘There’s weird shit,’ I said. ‘And we deal with the weird shit, but normally it turns out that there’s a perfectly rational explanation.’ Which is often that a wizard did it. - Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch; Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch; The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

A delightful British rom-com (Bingo #6) - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

I am a rule breaker….And can be unlike Kiku and her family in this graphic novel - Displacement by Kiku Hughes

I scream you scream for Halloween! (Or: Autumn books that can be Halloween books ) - We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt by Mary Hogan Wilcox ; She Wanted to Be Haunted by Marcus Ewert; The Little Kitten by Nicola Killen; A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Pumpkin Monster by Amy Young

Suspense Is Killing - Hipster Death Rattle by Richie Narvaez; A Touch of Death by Charles Williams

Enemies to lovers in a dark, pre-historic world - A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane

“We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run” (double Bingo) - Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Murder in a mansion on an island? Yes, please! - The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Lighthearted version of Rebecca - The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen

We tell ourselves stories to live. - The White Album by Joan Didion

July 20, 1991. Picked up my college diploma at the service window of the registrar’s office. - Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

Feeding my Toby habit again - Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire

Dear Faerie: AITA for Not Inviting My Step-Dad to My Wedding? - A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

A Worthwhile Second Chance - I Give My Marriage A Year by Holly Wainwright

“I live here, I have chosen to live here, because life seems real to me here.” - Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler

A Spy In The Closet - Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht

Finally Giving Credit Where It Is Due in the US Cooking Scene - The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

Bobby Garfield’s father who been one of those fellows who starting losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by forty-five or so. - Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

Timely satire or too soon? - Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

“We don’t “all” have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.” - Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

A steamy romance set amidst a family feud. - Hate to Want You (Forbidden Hearts, #1) by Alisha Rai

It was comforting to return to an established world: cbr12bingo “Yellow” - King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

cbr12bingo – Gateway (plus two “bingos” and a Double Cannonball!) - Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt

Silly, Funny, Worth Your Time - The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson & Eugene Yelchin

On Your Honor - The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

Everybody said: so? As in so what? - Summer by Ali Smith

Thrills and Chills - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

The first book in a historical romance series set during the Scottish Enlightenment. - Provoked (Enlightenment, #1) by Joanna Chambers

Commencing the Great Cosmere Re-read. - Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

1st Bingo! - Andrea Vernon & the Corporation for Ultra-Human Protection by Alexander C. Kane

A Cannonball prize and a bingo (Bingo #3) - Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

I wish this had been longer and more fleshed out. #CBRBingo – Cannonballer Says - Spellbound (Magic in Manhattan, #1) by Allie Therin

I Expect I’ll Turn the World Upside Down - The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.” - The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) by R.F. Kuang

The world is falling apart, but the magic is coming together - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

Get your priorities straight! - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Garbage In, Garbage Out (The Models, Not the Book) - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil

cbr12bingo – No Money! - Bright and Dangerous Objects by Anneliese Mackintosh

Mexico in my Kitchen in a Book - The Mexican Home Kitchen by Mely Martinez

Dancing all alone, feeling nothing good - Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

Makes me wish I knew more about jazz - Jazz by Toni Morrison

Talking Slime and Generic Fantasy Gets Interesting - That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 13 by Fuse, Taiki Kawakami, Mitz Vah

Any day she’s with Dad is Father’s Day - Papa Brings Me the World by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Two reviews for the price of one post - Baby Monster by Andrea Pfeiffer; I Want to Sleep Under the Stars by Mo Willems

Even better the second time - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Play me your tiny violins and order me a waaambulance, because this review is very whiny. - Fence, Vol. 4: Rivals by C.S. Pacat

I liked this, but I almost liked her friends more than her love interest. - The Boyfriend Project (The Boyfriend Project, #1) by Farrah Rochon

“It is difficult, after the passage of more than a century, to understand the extent to which the train robbery of 1855 shocked the sensibilities of Victorian England.” #CBRBingo – Money! - The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

“But I can have spiders in my head as long as I don’t let them consume me.” #CBRBingo – Happy - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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