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4 Star Reviews

A Young Adult book that shows you may have to work for the Happily Ever After - Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Costumes and figure skating and inventions and infatuation - Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

A historical romance with a maths genius - Talk Sweetly to Me by Courtney Milan

This is Madness! - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

“Sometimes I think you willed me into existence. Took a look around and thought I don’t want to this on my own. I need backup.” - We Are the Goldens by Dana Reinhardt

“Does it matter? Your age?” “It does indeed. A bit.” - What I Did For a Duke by Julie Anne Long

Did one of my favorite authors recently comment on one of my reviews and send me into a fangirl tizzy? Yes. Yes, he did. - Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub

Harry the Wizard is back, with a bad migraine and Winter in his soul - Skin Game by Jim Butcher

Zero Dark Thirty the book! - No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen

“Actually you have a problem with Veronica, you’re pretty much dead to me so just like evaporate or something, I don’t know” - Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham

Lady Oracle - Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

The dark underbelly of Victorian London, a strange and secretive club, a dab of the supernatural – an enthralling blend of Sarah Waters and Anne Rice. - The Quick by Lauren Owen

So awesome, so awesome - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

Nearly but not quite - & Sons by David Gilbert

Gone Again - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

“Oh God; Middle School. “ - The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm

Turow’s sequel to Presumed Innocent should be called Presumed Guilty - Innocent by Scott Turow

Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss - Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss

Okay, I’m in this now. Dammit. - Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2) by Diana Gabaldon

Mommy Wars, circa 1899 - The Awakening by Kate Chopin

A new Lehane drama that I would call “Mystic River Lite” - The Drop by Dennis Lehane

(Not A) Wallbanger - Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

So endeth these Star Wars. - William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return by Ian Doescher

Gritty fantasy western, with some surprises along the way. - Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

A historical romance with Chinese martial artists and past betrayals - The Hidden Blade and My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas

If You Were Hoping for a Light Romantic Comedy, Keep Moving. - Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

No Vampires or Dystopian Futures . . . just Characters You Care About - Rainbow Rowell by Fangirl

It’s like Rear Window but with more butts of malmsey - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

I know I’m late, but I really did like it when I finally got round to reading it - Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

An amusing contemporary romance with adultery and murder. No, really. - Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie

If for nothing else, read this for Oberon, the talking Irish Wolfhound. - Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1) by Kevin Hearne

For glory. For victory. For staying alive. - The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

Vampires, Half Vampires, and Evil Vampires, oh my - Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Sexism and Murder: Women Pioneers in Atlanta in 1974 - Cop Town by Karin Slaughter

Don’t judge this book by its mega-cheesy cover - Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Silver Shadows: More Vampires! - Silver Shadows by Richelle Meade

Like being raised by wolves, only with more history lessons - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Enchanting stories from another world - Habu Ki Aag And Other Stories by Gulzar

Cringeworthy Media - If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black

The Silkworm - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

Polysyllabic words as foreplay - A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cove #2) by Tessa Dare

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Holes by Louis Sachar - Holes by Louis Sachar

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Two New(ish) Nora Roberts - The Witness and Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts

Building towards the finale - The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks

Things aren’t looking good for the good guys… - The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks

Unique magic based on light and colors! - The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

2 for 1: Harry Potter and the Cuckoo’s Calling and Harry Potter and the Silkworm - The Cuckoo's Calling / The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

The Bell Jar - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
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