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4 Star Reviews

Really, nothing compares to the bonds between women… - The Break by Katharine Vermette

Oh, Imperialism…. - Nation by Terry Pratchett

Queen of the Danged - Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

Nerd Love - Geeks Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash

It’s hard to overstate how beautifully understated this (all his) novel(s) is. - A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

Another Book That Led Me to Crack Open My Wallet - Becoming Ms. Burton—From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton & Cari Lynn

What if You Could Walk Away? Would You? - Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood

Cubby returns, to the delight of most - Cubby Returns to Yellowstone by Frances Joyce Farnsworth

More Please. - Wildfire by Ilona Andrews

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is Completely Wonderful - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Full Disclosure - Funeral Platter by Greg Ames

Cracked, plain and simple. - The De-Textbook by Cracked.com

I’m Already Dead - iZombie Vol. 1: Dead to the World by Chris Roberson, Michael Allred

Honestly, It Sounds Pretty Great - The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell

Paranoia Paranoia Everybody’s Coming to Get Me - The Trespasser by Tana French

Family Secrets - Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan

No one belongs here more than you - Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

The Nature of the Unknown - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

What would happen if you tried to go home again? - No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

A really boring review about a really funny book. - Bossypants by Tina Fey

a·sy·lum (noun): shelter or protection from danger. - Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Juliet Stevenson (narrator)

Read the Small Print! - Carnivores of Light and Darkness by Alan Dean Foster

Banned Book Week Selection: Are you kidding me this was the most challenged book of 2016? Has everyone lost their minds? - This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki

Slow to Start, But Picked Up in the Second Half - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Flavia the Mystery Solver Goes to Canada (Half Cannonball Completion!) - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley

Robert Gottlieb and the New York Times Book Review Can Kiss My Romance Reading Ass - Dating You Hating You by Christina Lauren

“When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying.” - The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola by Richard Preston

A Gamache Cannonball - The Beautiful Mystery (Inspector Gamache #8) by Louise Penny, Ralph Cosham (narrator)

Have you read the one about the lepidopterist and the taxidermist? - A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

Keep Going - What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Speaking of dilettantes - A Time for Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The one with the horror convention. - Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8) by Jim Butcher

Nazis vs. Cthulu - Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War, Necessary Evil by Ian Tregillis

Kid-friendly take on DC’s finest - DC Super Hero Girls: Past Times at Super Hero High by Shea Fontana

I Think I Finally Love YA Again - The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

“The poems were cool. The best ones were like bombs, and when all the right words came together it was like an explosion.” - The Crossover, Booked by Kwame Alexander

“I fight every day, and too many times it’s just not enough and the fear wins. I’m so fucking weak and everything is so fucking intense and sometimes I really hate it…” - Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Animorphs twofer: One very silly, one very not. - The Underground (Animorphs, #17) & The Decision (Animorphs, #18) by K.A. Applegate

How to Bring Peace to Political Discourse in 2017 - The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides by Arnold Kling

If you think about it, we all have a fairy tale kind of life - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

An impressive depiction of a complex friendship spanning decades - The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend; The Story of a New Name; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

Shhhhhh - Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain

A Nazi is a Nazi is a Nazi - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

My favorite part of year - A Kind of Freedom; Sing, Unburied, Sing by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton; Jesmyn Ward

Climate Change, in Spaaaaaace! - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, narrated by Wil Wheaton

Where’s my super suit? - Superhero Sewing by Lane Huerta

Apologies, Kindness, and the Best Nap. - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Kamala says be kind. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 7 by G. Willow Wilson

Get yourself a 24-hour lawyer. - Giant Days, Vol. 5 by John Allison

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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