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4 Star Reviews

A Refreshing New Take on an Old Classic - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

We took you out from your mother’s womb; Our temple, your tomb - Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Real life medical horror story. - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Once you gone tech you ain’t never going back - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

This wig is made for murder - The Murderer's Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman

Doubt is faith’s shadow - The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo

There are no exploding airships in this book. But it’s still fun, and MUCH better than the cover would suggest - Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster

True Stories are Often MUCH More Interesting than Fiction (take that Melville!) - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

No animals harming in the making of - Howl by Karen Hood-Caddy

Perfect Beach Read - Messy (Spoiled #2) by Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan

One minute we are one thing and another another - Paul Auster's City of Glass by Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli

duuun dun ….. duuun dun ….. - Jaws by Peter Benchley

Religion makes some people kinda cray cray. - Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

The Victorian Art of Blowing Stuff Up with Braun and Books - Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris

The Magical Girl Goes Abroad - Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal

Another rich book from Willa Cather - The Professor's House by Willa Cather

Different, Not Less - Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Doom - Jenny Finn: Doom by Mike Mignola with Troy Nixey

West Side Story meets Sons of Anarchy - Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry

A space game that’s not Ender’s. - The Player of Games by Iain Banks

Till things are brighter, I’m the man in black - Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr by Cash: The Autobiography

Vulnerability: daring greatly, indeed. - Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

An Impressionist Painting in the Form of a Novel - The Sunken Cathedral: A Novel by Kate Walbert

Be Careful Little Fingers What You Type - So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Bad Feminist / Good Writer - Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

If You Liked Dr. Horrible, You’ll Like This - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

I think the book should have been about Ben or Radar instead - Paper Towns by John Green

Post-Apocalyptic Shakespeare - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

This is more about me than the book. - How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran

One more win from Moyes - One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

It’s Getting Hot in Here. No, Seriously. It’s Really Hot. - Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg

Sometimes Something Simple Can Comfort The Most - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

Glamming up Austen - Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinson Kowal

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Superhero Anthology! - Superhero Monster Hunter - The Good Fight by Thom Brannan and Miles Boothe, Editors

In a Show with Everything but Yul Brenner - The Day of the Dissonance by Alan Dean Foster

Essential Concealment - Atonement by Ian McEwan

You make a good Pip - Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield

Happy Birthday, Mr. Tesla! - Atomic Robo Volume 5: The Deadly Art of Science, Free Comic Book Day '12: Team Up of the Century by Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener

Perfect little historical romance novella. - The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright by Tessa Dare

Completely spannered - White Line Fever: The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza

“It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.” - Not My Father's Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming

All that’s missing is Otis Day & the Knights - The Deal by Elle Kennedy

I can’t stop thinking the title of this book is also a reference to penises. - Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon

The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

These fun fairy-tale retellings are feminist as f*ck. - The Stepsister Scheme, The Mermaid's Madness, Red Hood's Revenge (Princess Quartet, #1-3) by Jim C. Hines

Between the cantrips and the spells, I’d rather have the cantrips - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Joseph Conrad Meets Graham Greene - The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter

Laughing at (His) Nightmare - Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw

Rainbow Rowell at Comic Con - The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher

Get your kicks on route sixty-six - Blacksad: Amarillo by by Juan Diaz Canales (Author), Juanjo Guarnido (Illustrator)

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