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4 Star Reviews

Family First - Lazarus: One by Greg Rucka, Michael Lark, Santi Arcas

You’ve Got DMs - Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

You know, for kids! - Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Volumes 1-2 by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder, Natacha Bustos

“Why is some accident of uncontrolled neurochemistry the ‘real me,’ and a carefully reasoned system of priorities somehow false?” - Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1) by Mishell Baker

“Every Age Must Come to an End” is an ominous beginning - The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth trilogy vol. 1 by N.K. Jemisin

Even Canada isn’t safe from our horrible future - Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

“Stories are the wildest thing of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

It’s time to go to war - A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

it would have been better for him if he’d died. . . . - Jon For Short by Malorie Blackman

The screen door slammed and the Law said: “Here’s your Daddy come to take you home.” - Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

A tale of three cities - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Saga Vol 7, but also all the rest in spirit - Saga Vol 7 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

[Now with more dogs!] An Extinction Cycle short to hold us (me) over until Book 7 is released! - Extinction Lost: A Team Ghost Short Story (Kindle Single) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Get it together, Fitz - Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb

Delightful and Deep - One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul

The Trick to Falling - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

More Harry Magic - White Night by Jim Butcher

The Variants are back, and so is Apollo! - Extinction Aftermath (The Extinction Cycle Book 6) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Sanderson does detective fiction with a sf twist. - Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

Somebody give Glen Weldon a high-five. - The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE - Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3) by Chuck Wendig

This was, without a doubt, the right book at the right time. I loved it. Also, Cary Elwes. - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Some Will Not Sleep – like me! - Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors by Adam Nevill

Weirdly this reminded me of “Split” - Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Let Us Now Praise Jessica Trent - Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Fitz is a fool - Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

Stunning photo project or exploitation? - The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein

Truth That is Frustratingly Still Relevant - ain't i a woman by bell hooks

May be total bunk, but perfectly entertaining - Hero of the Empire by Candace Millard

Helps to avoid the pitfall of similar books in recent years - The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

Bad Dirt Bad dirt what you gonna do - Bad Dirt by E. Annie Proulx

The Forgotten Children of London (And Cannonball!) - Where the Dead Lie by C.S. Harris

Culture Shock - First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist by Barbara Gallatin Anderson

Dedicated People Make Amazing Things Happen - Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward by Elizabeth Ford, MD

Despite the great reviews, I hesitated - An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

“The girls were wild for dancing, and nothing else. No hearts beat underneath those thin, bright dresses. They laughed like glass.” - The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige with Dan Koon

Life Among the Savages - Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

“Believing the strangest things. Loving the Alien” - Dawn by Octavia Butler

The Good the Bad and the Eighties - Life Moves Pretty Fast Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don’t Learn Them From Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman

Comedian Turned Senator? Sure. - Al Franken: Giant of the Senate by Al Franken by Al Franken

That Night the bad thing happened - That Night by Chevy Stevens

A great (imo) twist that I did not see coming - A Criminal Defense by William L. Myers Jr.

Patsy and Jessica, Starting Over - Patsy Walker, aka Hellcat! Vol. 1 Hooked on a Feline, Jessica Jones: Alias by Kate Leth, Brittney Williams, Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos

“Going round the world too quickly is like attending a series of dinner parties and leaving with the soup.” - Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming

The Lose Your Belly Diet - The Lose Your Belly Diet by Travis Stork

The Journal of Best Practices - The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch

Saga, Vol. 7 - Saga, Vol. 7 by Fiona Staples & Brian K. Vaughan

The Best American Non-Required Reading 2015 - The Best American Non-Required Reading 2015 by Adam Johnson & 826 National

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 - The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 by Joe Hill & John Joseph Adams

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