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4 Star Reviews

A long-awaited book, not my favorite, but still worth the wait. - After the Wedding (The Worth Saga, #2) by Courtney Milan

Maybe it’s a holy freaking huge awesome deal - Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

The audiobooks really do make this series better. - Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by Robert Galbraith

Cute contemporary, bantery, love to hate to love romance. - Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren

Just Breathe - My Magic Breath: Finding Clam Through Mindful Breathing by Nick Ortner

Seek and you shall find! - Where's the Baby? by Britta Teckentrup

She kissed a girl and she liked it - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

You Ever Get Tired of Being Who People Want You to Be, and Not Yourself? - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The 50 You Didn’t Know You Needed - How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall

The importance of choosing and being chosen in return - After the Wedding by Courtney Milan

Hearts and Thoughts They Fade, Fade Away - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

It’s the Messy Emotions That Lead to the Creation of Art and Beauty - Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Winter in Russia, and a monster in the dark. - The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1) by Katherine Arden

“Money pads the edges of things. God help those who have none.” - Howards End by E.M. Forster

Go for the throat. - Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23) by Terry Pratchett

It’s not enough to be a teenager, but an alien, too? - Supergirl: Being Super by Mariko Tamaki, Joelle Jones

Reading About Writing a Dictionary is FASCINATING. No, Seriously. - Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

Don’t ignore the preface of this entertaining monster mash-up - The Fangs of Freelance by Drew Hayes

I was astonish’d at how greatly I admired the writing of this book - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

If You Knew When You Would Die, Would It Make You Take Risks or Avoid Them? - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

“He Had It Coming, He Only Had Himself to Blame” - One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Femme Fatale - Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

The spirits that live inside us - Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Neymar: A Soccer Dream Come True - Neymar: A Soccer Dream Come True by Mina Javaherbin

This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco. This ain’t no fooling around. - One on One by Tabitha King

When #MeToo Helps You Find New Authors - The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Does It Really Count As Twice If Someone Else Fooled You First? - Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran

True Equality Is When Robots Can Be Just As Apathetic As Humans - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Straight Forward Approach with Cutting Insights - Kindred by Octavia Butler

An Anatomy of Drew Hayes, but also review of Going Rogue - Going Rogue by Drew Hayes

So Much Yes! - The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

What he did not expect was to find himself standing on the night of Saturday the eighteenth—the Night, as it turned out, of the Sacrifice—in a ditch alongside the old road to Deepwater Number Nine Coalmine, watching a young girl die. - The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover

English first swarmed a continent that rose from the ocean overnight, seeking masts for their leviathan frigates and ships of the line, masts that no place in all stripped Europe, not even the farthest boreal north, could any longer provide. - The Overstory by Richard Powers

We are Stardust, We are Golden - Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman

Be careful who you talk to! - Dangerous Promises by Roberta Kray

Not your average cookbook – for the seasoned (food pun!) cook looking to take it up a notch. - The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food by Daniel Patterson and Mandy Aftel

Hellion with a heart of gold - The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase

Demons and Diversity…Out West - Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen

All glory to the hypnotoad. - The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty

Pop Goes the Bubble - Pop! by Jason Carter Eaton

Harry’s long dark night of the soul. - Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13) by Jim Butcher

“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.” - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Come for a history of the AK-47, stay for a history of all machine guns - The Gun by C.J. Chivers

The United States v. Jackie Robinson - The United States v. Jackie Robinson by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

The value of a memory - Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

A righteous defense of a difficult book - After the Wedding (The Worth Saga #2) by Courtney Milan

I can’t wait to #CannonBookClub this one - Kindred by Octavia Butler

The giant cat and realization of love are what drew me in years ago, now it’s the lessons in identity that stand out more - The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain, Book 3 by Lloyd Alexander

The Sleeping Beauty - The Sleeping Beauty by New York City Ballet and Valeria Docampo

Questing, for old folks - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

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