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5 Star Reviews

Institutionalized - Boodroot by Bill Loehfelm

For those of you wanted Babel to be even more intense. - Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

What Is “The Apocalypse” Anyway But Another Series of Bad Days, Or Same As It Ever Was, Or It’s Irrelevant - You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson

An absolutely excellent horror novel that deals with disability, postpartum depression, marriage, income inequality, and never feeling like you quite belong. - Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

Ahhh, shut up I just love this, okay? - The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2) by Juno Dawson

“This is a love story to its blade-dented bone.” - The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

Weird casting, but OK. - The Mudlark by Theodore Bonnet

Whyyyy haven’t more people read this??? - The Good House by Tananarive Due

I loved this one! If you are missing high/epic fantasy, this might be for you. - The Will of the Many (The Hierarchy, #1) by James Islington

Horny Dragon Book - Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

Back and Forth In the Day - Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem

I feel like this is the kind of book that sticks with you - True Grit by Charles Portis

Twisty, Serial (the podcast)-style thriller - I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

A Celebration of Books and Readers - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

It’s Important to Have the Occasional Existential Crisis About Trust. Probably. - A Trial of Sorcerers by Elise Kova

A Heartwarming Read, But You Might Need Tissues - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

Review #2: 1203 Pages of Awesome - The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson

Aliens Everywhere - On Earth As It Is On Television by Emily Jane; The Seep by Chana Porter

The Cultish Homecoming - Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. - The Hourglass Throne: The Tarot Sequence Book Three by K.D. Edwards

Queer as Folk(tales)! - Tales From Beyond the Rainbow by Pete Jordi Wood

CBRBINGO – ADULTHOOD: “For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered.” - The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

If Mr. Darcy was a Vampire - My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine

Darling it’s Better Down Where it’s Wetter, Take it From Me - A Duet With The Siren Duke by Elise Kova

I wish I had this book 8 years ago and glad it exists now. - How to Keep House While Drowning: A gentle approach to cleaning and organizing. by KC Davis, lpc

The perfect mix of war and noir - Five Decembers by James Kestrel

If I had read this when I was younger, I would think about Ancient Rome every day too. - A Rome of One’s Own by Emma Southon

Disney tricked me and I’m not even mad! - If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy

“You want to know if I’m as evil as everyone says I am. The answer is no. And yes.” - The Only One Left by Riley Sager

“We’ve got story enough here to eff up more than one young life, but it is a project.” - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

“To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier” - The Gilded Ones (2021) by Namina Forna

A fairytale in all but name - Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

All the Warmth and Comfort of a Freshly Baked Pie - Check, Please! #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu; Check, Please! Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu

“And say your mea culpa, which you gradually forgot” - Ride the Pink Horse (1946) by Dorothy B. Hughes

A Whole Lot to Juggle - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Five stars for The Five. Plus, a quadruple BINGO and board blackout! - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

All the world’s a stage - The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

“Rows of houses all bearing down on me / I can feel their blue hands touching me” - The Hours Before Dawn (1958) by Celia Fremlin

Truth Killzzz - What Meets the Eye: A Mystery by Alex Kenna

“She’s very proud of her crime scene; it must surely be the most pleasant crime scene the cops have ever been to.” - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

“He’s tough because he’s never had a soft place to land.” - Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

Who had Roger Rabbit as my most entertaining book of the year? - Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf

If the standards don’t include my fiancée being happy, what good are the standards? - The Marquis Who Mustn’t by Courtney Milan

The defining feeling of my childhood was that of being told there wasn’t a problem when I knew damn well there was. - Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh

Revisiting an Old Favorite - Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle

Happy Birthday, Charlotte’s Web - Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Convoluted and Fun - The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

You and me together, Nan…You are an evil genius, and I am your getaway driver. - For Never and Always by Helena Greer

“The goal was never to become American but to live, and live freely.” - Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

CBR15 Bingo: Europe (triple Bingo) - Folk med ångest (Anxious People) by Fredrik Backman

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