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4 Star Reviews

Darkly Enchanting - The Binding by Bridget Collins

A historical romance with ice smugglers (bingo) - Brazen and the Beast by Sarah Maclean

A Study in Spoilers - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Not my wheelhouse, but it could be (Bingo #2) - Carrie by Stephen King

Why I Stan for Jackie Lau - Man vs Durian (Baldwin Village, Book 3) by Jackie Lau

My Prediction/Request Came True! - Competence by Gail Carriger

Smudge, the spider I wouldn’t want to squish - Lirbiomancer by Jim Hines

Retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses - House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

- Normandy Gold by Megan Abbott & Alison Gaylin

“Every Love Story is a Ghost Story” - Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad … Detective? - Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham

Can’t Believe It Took Me This Long To Pick This One Up - The Girl of Fire and Thorn by Rae Carson

Youths! - Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan; Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan; Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan

I am the mother of a monkey and a daughter - Things You Save In a Fire by Katherine Center

Love of Reading Gone Wrong - Finders Keepers by Stephen King

Sometimes People Do Get Their Just Desserts - Who Slays the Wicked by C.S. Harris

Deep in the Heart of Texas - Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale

“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.” - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cathrynne M. Valente

The Power, by Naomi Alderman (A belated start to CBR11) - The Power by Naomi Alderman

“I have no interest in your orders, I have no interest in what was legal at the time” - The Huntress by Kate Quinn

“She was glad to have met someone who liked to read.” (Double Bingo) - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Dear Sweet Pea, Julie Murphy’s MG debut - Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy

“Challenging injustice means standing up for the weak, the vulnerable, the abused, and the forgotten” - What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha

“This world demands nothing short of perfection from women who aim high, and our need to see perfection in women has, until recently, far outweighed our need for their participation.” - Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution by Amber Tamblyn

Detective of the People - The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Scascia

It’s All A Conspiracy, Baby! - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch

An Unexpected Take on a Classic - The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Jack the Stripper - Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth

“I don’t really have any dreams beyond comfortable pants and unlimited sparkling water” (Bingo) - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Here Comes the Bride? - The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

Final Book in Tillman Series Swings Back From Second Book Syndrome - The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion

Great Historical Romance That Has Me Wanting to Read More About the Servant Class in England - Listen to the Moon by Rose Lerner

Location, Location, Location (200 pages of it) - Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

A Puppy Pile of a Romance - Puppy Christmas (Forever Home Book 2) by Lucy Gilmore

Space Road Trip! - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Limercati treated such an enterprise as a consummate absurdity. - The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

The truth is kind of regardless. - Spring by Ali Smith

Vampires in Spaaace! - Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

“A lengthy light bulb” from Teeth - Date & Time by Phil Kaye

The Star On the Train - Dread Journey by Dorothy Hughes

A lot of book, but worth it - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Hawaii Five Whoa - Repo Shark by Cody Goodfellow

Almost Perfect… - Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

What Terrible Men These Are… - Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George

I had a lot of ideas for this review….and then I waited two weeks to write it. - Recursion by Blake Crouch

When Far Away is as close as your backyard - If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

“You can’t run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be.” - Ghost by Jason Reynolds; Patina by Jason Reynolds; Sunny by Jason Reynolds; Lu by Jason Reynolds

Even supervillains love their kids - The Complete Runaways Vol. 1 (1-18) by Brian K. Vaughn

“This wasn’t my first rodeo in Unrequited Land. In fact, I had a season pass.” - To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin

Jasper Fforde does YA fantasy, and it works! #CBRBingo – YOUTHS! - The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1) by Jasper Fforde

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