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4 Star Reviews

It was the best of books, it was the worst of books - Zerocalcare’s Tentacles At My Throat. by Zerocalcare

Subverting fairy tale tropes… and llamas! - Cursed Princess Club vol 1 by LambCat

immediately engrossing and rage inducing in the best way - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Diabolical - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Love, Death, Murder, Justice - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Moriarty back on form - Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

The celery plant will eventually tire, as we all do. - The Everlasting Meal Cookbook by Tamar Adler

Kate’s back, baby! - Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

Blood of Scotland - A Distant Echo by Val McDermid

Alas, Not As Fun As the Last One, Still Can’t Go Wrong with PM. - The Case of the Crooked Candle by Earle Stanley Gardner

“Reality is thin but not always dark:” A Very Enjoyable and Thought Provoking Collection from King - Just After Sunset by Stephen King

Be the funny - Be the Bus: The Lost & Profound Wisdom of the Pigeon. by Mo Willems

Murderbot does it again! - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

The Real Gamer - Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession by Kate Hannigan

Is This Accurate? Hope So. - Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living by Linnea Dunne

back in the spider saddle again~ - Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

“… sometimes a woman has to be a bitch to survive, but bein’ a bitch is hard work….” - Dolores Claiborne: A Novel by Stephen King

Foul foe, or foul play? - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Bitter and sweet - Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir by Rick Louis

Elliot had a rough few days - The Witches of Silverlake Volume One by Simon Curtis

The British Press Need to Do Better - Spare by Prince Harry

Do you like cozy mysteries? And small towns? And…MURDER? - Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke

A very well done piece of comics journalism by Sofia Warren - Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren

“What happens to all that leftover love?” - After you'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

A Picture Worth an Entire Book - A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

It’s Not All In My Head - Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun

Let’s Make 2023 Monarchy Free - Spare by Prince Harry

RomCom Hijinks - Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

“Southern Cheap is, I’m gonna eat stale cookies while I serve you these fresh, warm buttered biscuits. Yankee Cheap is, I’ve got ten million dollars in the bank but I’m gonna cut off the thermostat during a blizzard and here’s my great-great-grandpa’s mothballed coat from the War of 1812 if you don’t have the character and fortitude to generate your own body heat.” - Girl, Forgotten (Andrea Oliver, #2) by Karin Slaughter

Not your mama’s Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Must Die (Dorothy Must Die book #1) by Danielle Paige

How to handle mental health issues in a novel - The Art of Insanity by Christine Webb

The value of a good cupcake, art and great friends - Dear Unicorn by Josh Funk

How were we to know the river ever would bend? - Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield

A Few Squirts of a Turkey Baster - Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

Quite an Epic - The Passage by Justin Cronin

Still in love with Catana Comics - In Love & Pajamas by Catana Chetwynd

Lady Codebreakers - The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Let the Intergalactic Bachelor Show Begin! - Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

“Revenge, possibly. Acting out, certainly.” - Messy by Katie Porter

Family dysfunction at its worst - The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

“WHERE’S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?” - Thud! (Discworld, #34) by Terry Pratchett

A reluctant hero faces his biggest challenge yet - The Scavenger Door by Suzanne Palmer

No Human Involved - The Less Dead by Denise Mina

“Just a girl and her giant stuffed elk head” - The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

“I love these people. They’re ridiculous and motley, but they’re mine.” - Breakup From Hell by Ann Davila Cardinal

Oh how funny! Mom just ate someone’s body part. - The Night Eaters: Volume One: She Eats the Night by Marjorie M. Liu

A great friend digs the empty grave up with you - Hell Phone Book One by Benji Nate

Serious and light Philosophy - The Holy Ghost: A Spirited Comic by John Hendrix

How could anyone know he’d be Leonard Bernstein? - Music was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin

Turns out Tropes Can be Saved if Self Aware - Mission Yozakura Family vol. 1 by Hitsuji Gondaira

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  • 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.
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