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4 Star Reviews

Many Truths, No Lies - Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Death and Life and Wheelies - Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon

2024 Alex Award title filled a Challenge slot - The Talk by Darrin Bell

The end of the world is here, but we’re still loving and living - Space Story by Fiona Ostby

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone

Do You Believe in Magic? And I Hope You Do. - Night of the Witch: Book One by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis

Going out with a bang (in more ways than one) - Dance with the Devil by Kit Rocha

“What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you. It’s not on you to convince him not to.” - The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

Adventures (and prophecies) through space and time. - The Principle of Moments (The Order of Legends, #1) by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

A bridging book, but a really good one - The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha

Having Fun Storming the Castle - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes & Joe Layden

If novel reading were really bad for the health, we all on this site would have perished long ago. - The Belle of Belgrave Square (Belles of London, #2) by Mimi Matthews

how much is folklore and how much is just a mad ramble? - Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

The Very Thin Line Between Friendship and Love - Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fall into the sea with Mina - The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

“What you don’t realize is that the world does not need more perfection. It needs more compassion and empathy.” - How the Dukes Stole Christmas by Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Sophie Jordan, Joanna Shupe

“Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it.” - Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke

Extra Extra Read All about Frankie and her Hard News Investigating Crew! - Frankie and Friends V01 Breaking News by Christine Platt

Finally Reading This… - Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Hollywood, and humanity, never cease disappointing me - Pageboy by Elliot Page

Free Will - System Collapse: The Murderbot Diaries Book 7 by Martha Wells

Great Photography and Pivotal Days in History Captured for Posterity - A Day in the Life of Israel by David Cohen and Lee Liberman (Project Directors); A Day in the Life of China by David Cohen (Project Director); A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union by David Cohen and Rick Smolan (Project Directors)

It was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly. - These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

Dragons, magic, and a love triangle - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Cursed and not princesses learning to slay for themselves - The Cursed Princess Club volume 2 by Lamb Cat

Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart - Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany by Katja Hoyer

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it.” - Lone Women by Victor LaValle

By Golly - Holly by Stephen King

Wait. So now I have to read ‘Jane Eyre’? - Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

Sound financial advice from your favorite Punk Rock Girl - I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendleton

Hate-Ashbury - The Girls by Emma Cline

“For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?” - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

A game of reality - Lo and Behold by Wendy Mass

Slewfoot: the devil is in the details - Slewfoot by Brom

Not where I saw that going at all - Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke

Faith blankets you - Blankets  by Craig Thompson

Hey, Ho, Let’s Go (or I don’t want to be buried in a Pet Sematary) - Pet Sematary by Stephen King

dystopian utopian escapism - The Future by Naomi Alderman

as they say in hockey…let’s do that hockey - Time to Shine by Rachel Reid

Your Buddy Misses You - The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

A red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid - They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles

Read a book, get a hundred suggestions - Books Make Good Friends by Jane Mount

Strange men in corridors distributing stab wounds was no basis for a system of government. - A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon

“Come along, Pleiti, you can practice ethnography later. We have a murder to solve.” - The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

It remains a heartwarming story - The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown

The Love Hypothesis Hypothesis - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Je me souviens - The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

When Women Play the Game of Thrones - The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

Teenage Kicks - The Girls by Emma Cline

damn whoever tries to burn you - The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace

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