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4 Star Reviews

Perfect with a cup of tea and some Cadbury chocolates. - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Definitely fantasy genre now - The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising, Book 2) by Susan Cooper

“We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live”-Joan Didion - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park and Maryanne Vollers

A new year, an old friend of a book. - A Kiss for Midwinter by Courtney Milan

I have seen Goody Proctor speaking with the Devil! - The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

And Poof! They Were Gone - Gone (Book 1 Gone series) by Michael Grant

The Girl on the – I’m sorry, what now? - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Let’s Start This Party with a Bang! - Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz

The Manger’s Just the Middle of the Story - Child in the Manger: The True Meaning of Christmas by Sinclair B. Ferguson

Text Me Later - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

First Review of the Year - Most Talkative: Stories From the Front Lines of Pop Culture by Andy Cohen

For All the Monster Girls Out There - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

A great start to 2016 - Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A 10-Year-Old’s View of Life Behind the Iron Curtain - Marzi: A Memoir by Marzena Sowa

Being in Love, Depressed - When Depression Hurts Your Relationship: How to Regain Intimacy and Reconnect with Your Partner When You’re Depressed by Shannon Kolakowski PsyD

The South is still haunted - The Cutting Season by Alicia Locke

Needs a little more Grandma Mazur - Manhunt, Smitten, & Back to the Bedroom by Janet Evanovich

Another “investigative reporter” romance - Striking Distance by Pamela Clare

A Fight Far From Fair - The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman

Christie takes a very old trope and makes it work. - The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie

I’ve never actually watched the show - Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross

Happy New Year! - Euphoria by Lily King

Well, that was certainly different - Sex Criminals, vol 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky

Season three of Daredevil? - Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli

Life belowstairs - Longbourn by Jo Baker

A great way to end the year - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Consider me an official fangirl - The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 2: Fandemonium by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie

An engaging young adult mystery - Far from You by Tess Sharpe

HO HO HO. - Hogfather (Discworld, #20) by Terry Pratchett

More Betsy. All the better. - Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy is my spirit animal. - Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace

“WORDS IN THE HEART CAN’T BE TAKEN.” - Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19) by Terry Pratchett

Where Was This My First Year Teaching? - Teaching with Love and Logic by Jim Fay & Dave Funk

Interesting and Flawed - So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Of course I liked these Bowen romances, they’re Bowen romances - The Understatement of the Year & Blonde Date by Sarina Bowen

Teenagers work through their grief - Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

Cowboys can be detectives too - World's Greatest Sleuth!: A Holmes on the Range Mystery by Steve Hockensmith

Spoiler Alert: Contains no jousting atop vampiric stallions - The Dolorous Adventure of Brother Banenose by Matthew Catania

tramps like us, baby, we were born to run - Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Well, that was some cracked out weirdness - Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

“Some days were worse, but really, all of them were the same, because every day at Latham was a sick day…” - Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars. - How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor

A Sweet Surprise - Watermelon Summer by Anna Hess

If anything ever deserved the label ‘feminist as f***’, it’s this book. - Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick & Valentine DeLandro

Miles from Harlan County but Still Close - A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller

I’m going to spoil the fate of the dog, FYI - The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) by Patrick Ness

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable” - Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Leslie Knope’s Pawnee Goddesses are Alive and Well - Lumberjanes Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Brooke A Allen, Shannon Watters

If You’ll Be My Star, I’ll Be Your Sky, You Can Hide Underneath Me And Come Out at Night - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Gods living as humans, what could go wrong? - The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie

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