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4 Star Reviews

Whoops I Summoned A Lightning Bolt and Now Everyone’s Freaking Out - The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas

Where’s that Dead King Buried? - The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater

Curiosity Killed the Goat - Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

I volunteer - Bitch Planet Vol. 1 (Extraordinary Machine) by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro

“Money, it turns out, is the new Jim Crow.” - Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1) by Attica Locke

A fantasy novel about court intrigue and kindness. - The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Women – Scarred and Exhausted. - How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

If it no go so, it go near so. - A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

I still wouldn’t have married him, but I get it. - American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

A book that way outgrosses the movie in misery porn - The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke

The Game Continues! Stories Edition - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Game is Afoot! (for the first time) - A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Malala’s Story - I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

I’m not crying on the subway; you’re crying on the subway. - His Majesty's Dragon: A Novel of Temeraire (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik

I’m keeping this author – even if she isn’t bringing anything new to the table - You're the Earl That I Want by Kelly Bowen

It’s like you don’t even take the apocalypse seriously. - The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey

You guys were SO RIGHT - The Secret Place by Tana French

Wonder Bread, Leave it to Beaver, and Eisenhower. Thrilling times for everyone. - Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton

A Tale of Love, Loss and Hawks - H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

There was an incident, it was curious (and also at night) and then things really started to get interesting. - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, narrated by Jeff Woodman

Flavia de Luce – Times they are a changin’ - The Dead in their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley

The perfect palate cleanser - Ridiculous by DL Carter

A memoir so good that I immediately got copies of her other two! - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Viagra in a romance?! I am a fan of what is going on here. - Falling From the Sky by Sarina Bowen

In War and Love Stories - In Love and War by Carla Kelly

Eat the bacon, Henry. - We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

“Gold is the corpse of value…” - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Teach me how to say goodbye - Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle #3) by Maggie Stiefvater

I’m running out of time, I’m running and my time’s up - The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

They’ll tell the story of tonight - The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

All the trigger warnings - Three More Words by Ashley Rhodes- Courter

“Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60’s. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.” - Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The True American Horror Story - Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Return to Three Pines - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

Hey, you got 80’s nostalgia in my dystopian novel. No, you got dystopian novel in my 80’s nostalgia. - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The first book in a new series by Marcia Clark. Yeah, that Marcia Clark 🙂 - Blood Defense by Marcia Clark

How do you survive when the earth itself fights you. - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

A Portrait of Loneliness - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

Less in your face hilarity, more story cohesion. - Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen

Now with dinosaurs. - Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen

Friendship to the Max. - Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen

Reality Bites - Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman

Up on the Roof - A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Just one more thing. . . - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

I wish we still called them velocipedes. - Her Every Wish (The Worth Saga, #1.5) by Courtney Milan

Hot hockey dudes and stuff. - Him (Him, #1) by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy

The End and The Beginning. - Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodríguez

The penultimate volume. - Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodríguez

That time a Sheriff tried to lynch Thurgood Marshall - Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

Educational and Interesting - Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

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