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4 Star Reviews

Father Earth is Angry - The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth trilogy vol. 2 by N.K. Jemisin

“I’m just like my country. I’m young and scrappy and hungry.” - Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Love 80s movies? (Mostly) love this book. - 1 by Hadley Freeman

If Celebitchy and the Daily Mail had existed in the Middle Ages - Get Well Soon, History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes who Fought Them & It Ended Badly, 13 of the Worst Breakups in History both by Jennifer Wright

Missing a Title - Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

The Duke and the con woman - From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh

This should turn into a good show eventually - Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

Introducing Your New Thor - Thor Vol. 1: Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman

The key to great horror - Locke & Key by Joe Hill

As I Lay Dying…in a pub? On the seaside? - Last Orders by Graham Swift

Black and White (and Red) all over - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Simply put, Evelyn Abbey is my former almost-girlfriend-turned-archnemesis-turned-tentative ally whom I would now very much like to permanently seduce - Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren

“Stay away from windows. And if you see people with tentacles, stay away. Don’t let them touch you.” - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

She’s up all night for good fun….she’s up all night to finish the girl with all the gifts - The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Growing Up Is Hard Even Without LSD - The Girls by Emma Cline

Even Fictional Cancer Can F*ck Right Off - The Mighty Thor Vol 1: Thunder in her Veins by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman

Cthulhu is An Equal Opportunity Employer - The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Anti-Gone with the Wind - March by Geraldine Brooks

Never, ever, never could this fight be worth what it asks of us. - City of Blades (Divine Cities #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett

The ugliness of beauty - On Beauty by Zadie Smith

A satisfying end to a fun series - The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Back into the groove with a maze plot. - The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Cyclopes enter the Percy-verse! - The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

Enjoying Spain with Percy Jackson - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

“I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to admit that sometimes they’re just assholes who screw up because they don’t expect to get caught.” - One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus

The least Anne-ish of the Anne books - Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery

Anne’s family life unveiled. - Anne of Ingleside by L.M Montgomery

Anne’s married adulthood begins - Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery

The ghostliest Anne book yet - Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery

A haunting novel set during and about WWII - Suite Française by Irene Nèmirovsky

An unusual science-fiction time travel novel. - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Intensely Well Done - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Come Home - Jessica Jones: Alias Vol. 2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos

Book Centered Indiana Jones and a Dragon with Too Many Threads - The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman

Can’t a Girl Just Make a Living? - Patsy Walker, aka Hellcat! Vol. 2 Don't Stop Me-ow by Kate Leth, Brittney Williams, Megan Wilson

Eyeballs, cats, and tiger spirit monks, and a whole lot of kung-fu - The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson

Nerd alert: this is a review of a book about sentence diagramming - Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey

God bless busybody community matriarchs, and all that sail in them. - Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

I wanted to savor it… - When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

SNIKT - Wolverine by Chris Claremont, Frank Miller

Save Yourself - Princeless Vol. 1 Save Yourself by Jeremy Whitley, M. Goodwin

Red Sonja Can Wear What She Wants - Red Sonja: Queen of Plagues and The Art of Blood and Fire by Gail Simone, Walter Giovani

Humanity and Purpose - The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson

Dangerous Duke Seeks Revenge, Finds Romance - The Most Dangerous Duke in London by Madeline Hunter

Still Wishing that Andie Had Chosen Duckie - Life Moves Pretty Fast - The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

Joining the Family/Family Fight Night - Lazarus Volumes 2 & 3, Lift and Conclave by Greg Rucka, Michael Lark, Santi Arcas

How Do We Get the Power to the People? - Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes

Gin and Lies - 1984 by George Orwell

Untold Stories Unearthed - The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller

“If you had the time to lose, an open mind and time to choose.” - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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