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4 Star Reviews

recommendation from aileen! - Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

The past and the present walk into a bar - Dead Lions by Mick Herron

Loads of Handy Tips - How to Clean Everything by Ann Russell

I seem to read a lot of novels about grief - After You’d Gone: A Novel by Maggie O’Farrell

The Guest Isn’t the Only Unexpected Thing - The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie

Ratcheting up the tension - Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

Osso Buco, You Say? Jambalaya? Why, yes! - My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee

One sweet Bansheenie - Beanie the Bansheenie by Eoin Colfer

Boy: Part Two - The Boy From Clearwater: Book Two by Yu Pei-Yun, Jian-Xin Zhou and Lin King

A new perspective - When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey

v late to the roman tiktok thing - A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

Cosmere, Colored - Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

and we’re back to Arasht - Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland

despite reading them months apart, the reviews will go up in the same day - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

When Life was bored, Death took a holiday - Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis by Dave Maass, Patrick Lay, Ezra Rose and Richard Bruning

The Book Lovers Guide - Book Love by Debbie Tung

An AI-assisted review experiment - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

:A Review - Cahokia Jazz: A Novel by Francis Spufford

anyone else want a “how fascism fell” reminder? - The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 by Richard J. Evans

don’t understand how I don’t already have a review for this but okay - Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher

Horse Girls ftw - The Lily of Ludgate Hill by Mimi Matthews

I can’t believe I only met Emily this year - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

A cozy paranormal romance for the holidays~ - Clara, Darling by Chace Verity

Flamingos are now in the top ten of my favorite birds - Flamingos Are Pretty Funky: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman

Brooklyn and billionaires (maybe millionaires, but I like alliteration) - Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

I live for the burning snap of a freshly carbonated beverage. - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

Just a couple of moms and their talking cats - Urban Tails by Ilana Zeffren

A long review with a lot of thoughts - Transitions: A Mother's Journey by Elodie Durand

Nostalgia - Amla Mater by Devi Menon

A Hanukkah Romance - The Dreidl Disaster by Stacey Agdern

Powerful story of climate change - Dust by Alison Stine

Grief, murder and more grief - The Maidens: A Novel by Alex Michaelides

Murder in the Philippines - Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista

Vampire-Off During a Cat and Mouse Chase, but it’s cozy cute - The Night-Time Cat and the Plump Grey Mouse: A Trinity College Tale by Erika McGann, Lauren O'Neil

Radiation is Not Great, Folks - Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

“History is…tragedy without catharsis.” – Barry Gewen - Wolverine: Road of Bones by David Mack

Freshman Blues - How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger

A Decade of Death and Decisions at Halloween All Together At Once - A Decade of Death and Decisions by Drew Hayes

Do You Guys Ever Think About Death? - A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block

Is That Sweet? I Guess So - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Mythology in a Modern World - The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie

A grown up romance for the horse kids - The Grump Whisperer by Katy James

“They wear red bandannas knotted around their necks, as if their throats have already been cut.” - Rednecks by Taylor Brown

Shadow Histories of the United States - Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey; The United States of Cryptids by J.W. Ocker

Mash ’em, boil ’em, stick ’em in a stew - How to train your dragon 4: how to cheat a dragon's curse by Cressida Cowell

Meet my emotional support Canadian cop turned contract killer - Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong; Made to be Broken by Kelley Armstrong ; Wild Justice by Kelley Armstrong

How did it get made? - MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards

Fun and satisfying - Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes

Appetizing - Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin

“You mean because you’re built like the Abominable Snowman and I’m the size of the Sugar Plum Fairy?” - Cruel Winter With You by Ali Hazelwood; Merry Ever After by Tessa Bailey; All By My Elf by Olivia Dade; Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur; Only Santas in the Building by Alexis Daria

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