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4 Star Reviews

The Sea Was Angry That Day, My Friends - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Welcome to OZ - Tin Man by Justin Madson

Girls just want to have graphic hyperbole - Girl Juice by Benji Nate

Back on my grief kick - You Are Not Alone by Cariad Lloyd

Loss, Mental Illness, and Betrayal - The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

Fellow CBR reviewer for the win - Komarr by Lois Bujold

Fake Dating Relationship Speedrun - The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

How to still give a fuck without tearing yourself to shreds in the process - The Art of Extreme Self-Care by Cheryl Richardson

“We must, we must, we must increase our bust!” - Are you there God? It's me Margaret. by Judy Blume

“The air crackled with a permanent sense of distrust. In the firm’s toxic worldview, conflict was good. Conflict made people work harder and smarter. It made them ruthless.” - The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

A doctor and serial killer cat and mouse game. - Monster, Volume 1 by Naoki Urasawa

“We seek for every possibility of life and sentience, because the universe is vast and cold and mostly empty, and variance from that void is to be treasured.” - Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A very lovely romance about two complex people on the search for belonging - Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

“It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.” - Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2) by Michael J. Sullivan

Look Ma, this is how the Internet works! - Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

“The world was filling with ghosts. We were a haunted country in a haunted world.” - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Hell Bent or That time I tried to rescue my crush who happens to be a sexy demon - Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

She had to pack an entire life’s worth of living into a month. - Heated Rivals by Katee Robert

“It’s all a decision. You just decide, and then you do something. You don’t have to know everything, but you do have to begin.” - Managing Expectations: a Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver

Holmes in 1942 - A Study in Crimson by Robert J. Harris

I never left Brokeback Mountain - Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Resilient A.F. - No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox

How Do You Fight Evil? - The Minuteman by Greg Donahue

Life imitates art, which is inspired by quiet village life - Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson

A great debut novel - Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

“Our vast universe provides us with enough profound and beautiful truths to live a spiritually fulfilling life.” - For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World by Sasha Sagan

She’d worked so hard to deserve the goodness of her life now, but accepting it was something else entirely. - Single Dads Club by Therese Beharrie

Pitch perfect - Love Is in the Bear by Judith Henderson

It was 10:58 AM - The Eleventh Hour by Jacques Goldstyn

Love is a bourgeois construct - The Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon

Drugs and War - Box Nine by Jack O'Connell

So Very Sweet - She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori

We’re incandescent. I believe you and I will ignite the entire sky between us.” - Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston

The Cozy I Needed - Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Don’t Assume - The Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose

Ice Queen - The Stolen Heir by Holly Black

I saw it coming but that’s not totally a bad thing - A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I Lin

An unexamined past might come back to bite you on the ass. Literally - Lone Women: A Novel by Victor LaValle

This Is What It Sounds Like - This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas

Easier Said Than Done - Buddhism: Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen

Chosen Ones and Their Problems - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Another Twisty Ride - The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

What Is Reality? - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

What Happens When the Past is Forgotten - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The world was filling with ghosts. We were a haunted country in a haunted world.” - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

I’m living Athena’s life. I’m experiencing publishing the way it’s supposed to work. - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Jennifer Hale should narrate more audiobooks - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

How do you listen? - Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion. by Shannon Stocker

Is this book prefect? No, but it is a da*n good start - Why? A Story for Kids Who Have Lost a Parent to Suicide by Melissa Allen Heath

“The magic is not in the ceremony of pouring the tea or the sharing of the cup. It is in the connection, the brief joining of souls. The tea leaves are a channel, the ingredients the signposts.” - A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1) by Judy I. Lin

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