2 Star Reviews

Shoulder Shrug - The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers, and Life - The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers, and Life by Richard Russo

Books about books, dance, reporters and scuba diving! - Various books by James Dean, Victoria Kann, Herman Parish

I didn't love most of this. But I did love one part a whole lot. - From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon

In Which Mother Nature Plays a Character All Her Own - Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge

This book was not for me. Maaaybe it would be for you? - Cherry by Nico Walker

I lack the deep well of literary understanding - Crudo by Olivia Laing

Zombies and the Final Girl and ... Cuba? - The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg

Better late than never - Cbr10bingo: Cannonball Book Club - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

I Don’t Care If These Stars Ever Get Charted - Stars Uncharted by S.K. Dunstall

I Was Tempted to Make This Review a Mediation of When Exactly the Likeable Arsehole Line Is Crossed, but Thought Nah, Better Not - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Not for me - The Pisces by Melissa Broder

You're Trying a Little Hard to be Edgy There - Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

A poor murder mystery in sci-fi clothing - One Way by S.J. Morden

#CBR Bingo: #Cannonbookclub (Bingo #5) - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t hate me. - The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Been on my Backlog for a while, but sort of wish I'd never read it (BINGO 2!) - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

They're not saying "boo", they're saying "Truuuuuuue"...Detective - Night Train by Martin Amis

This didn't even get me a bingo - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

What is Up With the Gross Stereotypes?! - 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

Makes me not want to read any more Brontë. - Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Living in my worst nightmare - The Girl Before by JP Delaney

Posts review and runs away - Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

I was expecting something different - Twain's Feast by Andrew Beahrs

"But I do think that when we choose the easy path, where people or society reward us for being what they want us to be, against who we really are, a kind of death occurs. To the soul.” - Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg

Not my idea, was it yours? - Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham

So bad it made me make up a bad metaphor - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Not-very good men do not very good things - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Well That Turned Sexist! - The Girl Before: A Novel by JP Delaney

Post your fave Craigy Ferg clips in the comments so we can have something nice to talk about instead 🙂 #CBRBingo - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Well it felt like a chore - First jobs by Merritt Watts

Wizard! You shall not pass! - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin

Well, I got my center square - Between the bridge and the river by Craig ferguson

"Sisters, sisters There were never such devoted sisters" - The Yin-Yang Sisters and the Dragon Frightful by Nancy Tupper Ling

Obviously when pigs fly….. - The Dreamer by Il Sung Na

The Magic’s Gone - Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link

Not My Wheelhouse ... BINGO! - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Nine lost civilizations and one completely mythical city - Lost Civilizations: 10 Societies That Vanished Without a Trace by Michael Rank

And yet I'm going to read the third one - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

I feel let-down (thank godtopus this isn't my Cannonball book) BINGO #2 - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Maybe It’s Better in the Original French? (CBR10 BINGO) - L’art de la Simplicite by Dominique Loreau

In which I determine I don't like "choose your own adventure" books - Detective Frankenstein: Book 17 (Twisted Journeys) by Alaya Johnson author, Yuko Ota illustrator

The trippiest trip you'll ever take - I'm From the Sun: The Gustafer Yellowgold Story by Morgan Taylor

#CBR10Bingo: AlabamaPink - The Dud Avocado (First bingo!) - The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

This is Kind of Absolute Garbage - My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Audrey is Great. This Book? Not So Much. (CBR10Bingo) - Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

The Musical Must Be Better (CBR10 BINGO) - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Macguire

I was sad that I didn’t like this more. - Mother Ghost: Nursery Rhymes for Little Monsters by Rachel Kolar, Roland Garrigue

And Then There Were Satanists ... The Legacy - The Legacy by John Coyne

But what of Barry the swim instructor? Does he get a happy ending? - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

When reality ruins your escapism - Save the Date by Morgan Matson

I Didn't HATE Hate List...But I Didn't Like it Either - Hate List by Jennifer Brown

"If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing" - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

I don't think it's aged all that well (Plus, half Cannonball!) - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

In which I parody Kurt Vonnegut to stick it to cancer - God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

Is it a letdown if you expect it to be bad? - Hero At The Fall by Alwyn Hamilton

The author is inadvertently his own villain - Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer

More Witchy Irish Stereotypes then you can shake a stick at (Bingo #3) - Dark Witch by Nora Roberts

Casablance, this is not - Tangerine by Christine Mangan

FRAMED FOR MURDER!!! (Yawn) - The Guilty Wife by Elle Croft

Girl On The Train, by a dude - The Woman In The Window by A. J. Finn

If they make a movie of this one, I hope it also has Tim Daly in it. - My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley

I didn't love this, but its one million percent worth the purchase simply to hear HJB make up potential titles for the porn he accidentally appeared in. - Failure is an Option by H Jon Benjamin

Close, But No Cigar - Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser

My Cult Leader Is a Toddler On Cold Medicine. And Yours'? - Lucky You by Erika Carter

Finger. Goldfinger. - Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

CBRBingo: Two Heads are Better than One - The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin

Do not shame me for knowledge that has been denied me. - Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng

I’m Annoyed You All Made Me Read This (CBR10 BINGO) - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

The Audacity of Exposition - Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer

Sink your chompers into this nutty tail Humorous Stories - I Lost My Tooth by Mo Willems

Princess Arabella goes to school and I go back to the bookshelves to find another book - Princess Arabella Goes to School by Mylo Freeman

In the words of Poehler, "Good for her, not for me." Another laborious tale that I slogged through. - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

*Does not contain actual dragons* - Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

The book wasn't great, but the music was... - Dead Gods: The 27 Club by Chris Salewicz

Standing Still - Still Me by Jojo Moyes

I knocked, but didn't quite enter... - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

I’m probably the only one. - The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

I watched a lot more TV than usual last week because I didn't care to read this ... - Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan

Aster didn't mean it - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

It just feels young to me - The Sun and her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

An incomplete yet intriguing start to a series - The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl

A Step Back - The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

Huge case of middle book syndrome. - A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3) by Sabaa Tahir

"Knowledge isn't a sign of divine favor. Prosperity is." - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Jane Eyre sees dead people - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

She's Back! - Wild Like the Wind by Kristen Ashley

It's a thin line - What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

If you read the first book, don't read this book. Imagine your own ending. #CBRBingo - The Shadow Throne (The Ascendance Trilogy, #3) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Not a Marvel to Me (too lazy to come up with a better title) - Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry

Ants are not the only uninvited guest here! - Picnic with Oliver by Mika Song

And So it Begins #CBRBingo - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Mothers - from empowering women to subverting them in short order - The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Take my wife....go on, take her. - Thy Neighbour's Wife by Gay Talese

Bad Beauty and the Beast fanfic - A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas

Read this with a Michael Scott "NOOOOOOO" - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

I'm not sure what I read - Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

So this was a book that I read - the heroine has a pet skunk. I know, quirky, right? - Wilde in Love by Eloisa James

Trees did not talk back, or willfully disobey, or laugh at him. They were not here to torment him; indeed, they were not here for him at all. - At the End of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

non-linear narrative fail - The Tower of Swallows (Witcher #6) by Andrzej Sapkowski

Just Your Average, Forgettable World War II novel ... - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Book about memory sure faded fast - MEM by Bethany C. Morrow

That time I accidentally read an M/M erotic fantasy... - Captive Prince, Prince's Gambit, King's Rising by C. S. Pacat

Going Obnoxious Teenager - Going Bovine by Libba Bray

There's fiction, and then there's unbelievable - Pies and Prejudice; Peach Pies and Alibis by Ellery Adams

The start of a very weird series - Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Small Stories - Vernon Is on His Way: Small Stories by Philip C. Stead

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #14 - Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman

*Not ALL Americans* - The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

Movies and how they tie-into reading - Wonder Woman; Zootopia Read-Along; Being Batman by various

Like a MEH Canada vs US at War Fanfic - We Stand On Guard by Brian K Vaughan, Steve Skroce, and Matt Hollingsworth

Murky and Dim - Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber

Sleepy time at the Zoo - Zzzookeeper by John Hutton

An insult to avocado toast - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

F*ck the Police - The Trespasser by Tana French

I just ... didn't care - The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

I’m not in the habit of boring people with my biography - A Fine Imitation by Amber Brock

Pain could be measured, whereas love often couldn't even be located. - Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn

A guide on how to cram every known stereotype in one single book - Motherland by G.D. Abson

Perfectly fine, but not for me - Sunburn by Laura Lippman

So close! - Artemis by Andy Weir

Gettin' Bizzy - Bizzy Mizz Lizzie by David Shannon

Not Any Great Things - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

A little spoilier and crankier than I planned - The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Baptism of Fire (The Witcher #5) by Andrzej Sapkowski

This is her home now--of her own free will. - The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Fifty shades of f*cked up - Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Thank you, Julie Murphy, for continuously not sucking. - Meet Cute by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Huntley Fitzpatrick, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Katharine McGee, Kass Morgan, Julie Murphy, Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi

Three potentially good stories smashed into one mediocre novel - Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

Fox and the Bike Ride - Fox and the Bike Ride by Corey R. Tabo

The Billionaire and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, part 9,342 - Scotland or Bust by Kira Archer

Nobody's Perfect - The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

40: Ugh. I do not like the "cool, caustic sarcastic girl" trope. - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

34: White men who think they're allies (but still negging and objectifying you) are the worst. - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey creepy - The Time Traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger

He was aware that he was not completely sane, so he kept himself in rigid check, playing both jailer and prisoner. - You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames

Generic, derivative YA fantasy in disguise. - Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1) by Tomi Adeyemi

If Gaslight and Single White Female had a baby. - Tangerine: A Novel by Christine Mangan

"There is an English dream of a warm summer evening on a branch-line train" - The Kingdom By The Sea by Paul Theroux

I really wanted to like this, but... - Dust by Joan Frances Turner

Edie Is Ever So Helpful or Not.... - Edie Is Ever So Helpful by Sophy Henn

Maybe it Flew Over My Head - Kingdom Come by Mark Waid, Alex Ross

And We're off to Bed - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car by Kate Dopirak

To have strings, like everyone else. - The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

You can't go home again - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Felt Like the Sam-Frodo part of The Two Towers But On Mars: Or, It's a Rock, I Get It, Can We Get to Someone or Something Interesting? - Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

I got to find my baby - Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

Decent beginning + cool idea still manages to = meh - After Long Silence by Sheri S. Tepper

“The past is relevant only as data.” - Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

Come and get it - Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid

The past and present was fun, the future was not - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

A Narwhal and Jelly Book - Peanut Butter and Jelly (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #3) by Ben Clanton

Theocons and Privatizing War - Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill

Sci Fi crime - Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre

What I eventually came to understand, about San Francisco, was that I was immersed in beauty and barred from seeing it - The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

Is Rick Riordan Finally Wearing Out? - The Burning Maze (Trials of Apollo 3) by Rick Riodran

Elephant & Piggie Like Reading, Do you? - Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! - The Itchy Book! by Mo Willems

monkey frown.gif (actual gif in post) - The Time of Contempt (The Witcher #4) by Andrzej Sapkowski

Well, that was disappointing - The Book of Etta by Meg Elison

When Box meets Circle - Box Meets Circle: Pixar Animation Studios Artist Showcase by Aaron Hartline

Between Thor: Ragnarok and Infinity Wars, I Don't Have Much Patience for Thor as an Evil Villain - Hammered by Kevin Hearne

This was a lovely and well-written story that I REALLY didn't like. - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Snogging means kissing - Angus, Thongs, and full-frontal snogging by Louise Rennison

Shitty Stuff Happening to Sad, Angry, Poor People - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

Hockey? Good! Romance? Good! This Novel? Mmmm, Not For Me - Slammed by Victoria Denault

It Ain't A Party Until Someone Loses An Eye...OR so I've heard... - The Party: A Novel by Robyn Harding

A rollercoaster of frustration, eyerolling, and morbid curiosity - Throne of Glass series: Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn, The Assassin's Blades (novellas) by Sarah J. Maas

Rough red skin. Rough red head. - Peach by Emma Glass

The very slow death of a grumpy, old man - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Raised in love, money, and the certainty of God’s favor—money the indication of God’s favor, an idea so insidious she won’t recognize it till she’s in her forties - Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro

Dog Man and Cat Kid To the Rescue? - Dog Man and Cat Kid: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #4) by Dav Pilkey

Don't pick up that bad penny, it could ruin your life - Coins of Chaos by Jennifer Brozek

All Filler No Killer - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

This won't tell you who she was, but who she wasn't - A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau by Carolyn Morrow Long

Somewhere There is a Universe Where I Enjoyed This Book - Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

Because I am in a Matrix of Literature - Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Franny's Father is a Feminist - Franny's Father is a Feminist by Rhonda Leet

Yes, three pages can in fact ruin an entire novel - The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

A tale of two orphans - The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill

“Thank you.” I smiled sweetly at him. “Your trousers are on fire.” - The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn

Crosstalk irritates almost as much as having telepathy would - Crosstalk: A Novel by Connie Willis

The Perfect Siesta - The Perfect Siesta by Pato Mena

Hunger Games-level of third book slump - Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

Great Title. So-So Memoir. - Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha

I miss my YA rut - Things That Happened Before The Earthquake by Chiara Barzini

I just didn't care...at all - The Day of the Duchess by Sarah Maclean

I Have a List Of Grievances - Three Blind Dates, Two Wedding Crashers by Meghan Quinn

I'll probably gift this to my aunt - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Game Over - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Read The Martian instead - Artemis by Andy Weir

Quentin Coldwater and the Chronicles of Fillory - The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Some men (fewer women) are solitary, unattached to any particular place or institution, most comfortable not exactly alone but in the presence of strangers - Democracy by Joan Didion

Read A.J. Fikry Instead - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

I like less psychobabble with my mysteries - A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King

You Can Tell It Was Written By A Dude - The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises by Adam Campbell

25: Ashes - Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick

"This entire exercise was stupid." Never truer words spoken - 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Bathroom Boogie - Bathroom Boogie by Clare Foges

Maybe one of us should retire from these books, Mr. Demarkian - The Headmaster's Wife by Jane Haddam

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both. - Origin by Dan Brown

A Character Trying to Let You In to Their Personal History, Without Actually Letting You Really Get There - History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

Lots of Lies - The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle

It's nice to see peeks of the author she will be - The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

What the hell is that? - Crota by Owl Goingback

There's a photographer who says cat lovers always believe their own cat is better looking than anyone else's. According to her, they've all got blinders on. - The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide

Zombie fungus? - The Wave by Walter Mosley

#RKOMC meets RHOBH - The Go- Between by Veronica Chambers

Better than the last three books in the series, but still not great, Bob! - New Spring (Wheel of Time, #0) by Robert Jordan

Do I Lean In to the Farce or Is It Farcical? - The Holidays Series: The Stocking Was Hung; Cupid Has a Heart-On; The Firework Exploded; The Bunny is Coming by Tara Sivec

Oh Please Tell Me More About Your TODO list ... - For We Are Many by Dennis Taylor

Like a late-night Cinemax sexy thriller starring Shannon Tweed and Eric La Salle - Black Diamond by Zakes Mda

Gay in the Bible Belt - Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley

My fiancé immediately began to look uncomfortable, but did not voice this discomfort except by a soft gurgling sound in the throat . - Intimations: Stories by Alexandra Kleeman

Huh? A Contemporary Romance - Hate to Want You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai

When there is no equality there can not be equivalency. - This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

The Cheese Stands Alone - The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

Tasting Tears and Spilling Whiskey On the Floor - The Sasquatch Murder: A Love Story by Jeffery Viles

I wanted what we all want: everything. - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

A Gentleman in MoscNO - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Love the Setup, But the Rest... Not So Much - The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox

Mostly, this book just did not work for me - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

I prefer the screen adaptation - Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

The video was better - The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet: A Novel by Bernie Su & Kate Rorick

A Superswing and a Supermiss - Superman: Earth One Vol. 2 by J. Michael Straczynski

Another man's fate. - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

"Thanks to Harvey, the year I died had become the year I lived" - Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy

First I got up, then I had a piece of toast... - Theft by finding by David sedaris

Probably Helpful But Not Great - Time Out Brussels by Peterjon Cresswell

When the Reckoning Arrives (or Not) - A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan

Charleth Dickenth thtarring Daffy Duck - Hard Times by Charles Dickens

A *shrug* and a *yawn* - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. - New People by Danzy Senna

Forget it, kid, it's non-canonical X-Men. - X-Men Noir by Fred Van Lente

A Couch for Llama - A Couch for Llama by Leah Gilbert

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny. - The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain

Like lickin’ honey off a thorn tree - The Sasquatch Murder (a love story) by Jeffery Viles

thought-provoking, but this one's not for me - After by Claire Tristram

The rough poetry of life... - The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson

Only two more (and a side-novel) until Sanderson! - Winter's Heart (Wheel of Time, #8) by Robert Jordan

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.” - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Mediocre New Adult all hopped up on a Very Special message. - It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Five characters in search of an exit - The Road to Character by David Brooks

That’s not funny, that’s tedious - That’s not funny, that’s sick by Ellin Stein

How many marshmallows do I get for having finished the book - The Marshmallow Test by Walter mischel

12: The Power - The Power by Naomi Alderman

Nick the Knight, Dragon Slayer - Nick the Knight, Dragon Slayer by Aron Dijkstra

A glimpse into our past, and god forbid our future. - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Beauty & The Beast & Cowboys - The Accidental Mail Order Bride by Ruth Ann Nordin

I really disliked this - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

Why else would you have feet? - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

In a land down under - Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik

Finding Meaning in Meaningless Ways - Planetfall by Emma Newman

Starting off on the Wrong Spring Heeled Foot - The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

Halbs Rambles About Poison Ivy - Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu

Sometimes, the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

feminism wrapped in a glittery pink bow? #nothanks - Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett

Blah blah blah fried chicken blah blah blah Stephanie's car gets totaled blah blah blah Stephanie makes a bad decision. - Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich

Is it a Stockholm syndrome romance ? - King's Captive by Amber Bardan

“Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?” - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans

A meh romance for the beginning of 2018 - Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan

Alli Reviews "Heartburn" - Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Needed more Social, less Physics - Social Physics by Alex Pentland

I guess this is a children's book? - The Road to Ever After by Moira Young

In Which Maisie Dobbs Makes Me Angry - Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear

Patton Oswalt is a Better Comedian than Memoirist - Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt

About What One Would Expect for a Book Being Adapted Into a Series Starring Luke Evans - The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Setting the World Right, One Dog at a Time - Rescued-What Second Chance Dogs Teach Us About Living with Purpose, Loving with Abandon, and Finding Joy in the Little Things by Peter Zheutlin

Starting to not like things - Weaver's Lament by Emma Newman

I am so disappointed! - The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff

They were forgotten for a reason, apparently - The League of Regrettable Superheroes by Jon Morris

Alternate title: How Millionaires Grieve - Option B by Sheryl Sandberg

We're Goin' Space to the Wild, Wild West! - Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

I Was the Wrong Audience for this Book - God: A Human History by Reza Aslan

Insider exposé with little to no actual shocking revelations... - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

Mostly dull - The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman

Good in little bites - Pleasure Keeper by Charlotte Stein

Serialized Fiction - Yesterday's Gone: Season One by Sean Platt & David Wright

I take no leave of you and send no compliments to your mother - Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoes by Melissa de la Cruz

Starting off with a ...meh... - Not Another New Year's by Christie Ridgway

Guys... I just can't with this one. - My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews

The Boring Lives of Medium-Level Jerks - A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." - Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes

Book two introduces us to an officer... - Pounding Skin by L.A. Witt

Moldy Cheese and Buckets of Blood...Or NAH? - The Dreams by Matthew Fleming

The US Navy calls hats 'covers' ... - Back Piece by L.A. Witt

I didn't care for it, but I couldn't put it down - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

How is a book about a spy this boring? - For Your Arms Only by Caroline Linden

That Bee Life Hustle - The Bees by Laline Paull

I was rolling my eyes so hard - Hooked on the Game by C.M. Owens

A worthy literary endeavor that left me underwhelmed - The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

Dolittle the Animal Lover - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Meh. - Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland

I'm so done with white-man-young-adult-literature - Fade by Robert Cormier

I want to scream SHOW DON'T TELL - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Tweeting - It Started With A Tweet by Anna Bell

Not Quite What I Was Expecting - Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O'Connor

It still has to make sense - The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich

There Is No Hacking Here - The Happiness Hack by Ellen Petry Leanse

Falling towards a violent end - Fall by Candice Fox

No such thing as Mr. Perfect - Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard

Less than what it seems - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

I hate when this happens. - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The pictures were good - The Winter Camping Handbook by Stephen Gorman

The Brother Karamehzov - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thanx but no thanx - Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks

Not that bad until the end - Ella the Slayer by A. W. Exley

Better late than never? Maybe not... - 7th Grade Revolution by Liana Gardner

Emotional whiplash - The Marrying Season by Candace Camp

A buzzing sound began in my brain - A Small Revolution by Jimin Han

Southern comfort mystery - Bone to be Wild by Carolyn Haines

A good candidate for my worst book of the year - The Rebel Heir by Elizabeth Michels

This is me quitting this series. - Triple Threat (Lois Lane, #3) by Gwenda Bond

I'll just re-watch Glow - Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron, Brendan McDonald, John Oliver (Foreward)

We should all be feminists. That's pretty much a 'duh' statement, yea? - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Let's talk about some books I got for free that weren't all that great. - Lucky in Love, Girl in a Bad Place, Kissing Max Holden, A Match Made by Chloe by Kasie West, Kaitlin Ward, Katy Upperman, TB Pearl

The finest Hallmark movie in book format. A big warm bowl of predictability. - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Magical timepieces - The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer

Dr. Silkstone, pioneering forensic detective - The Dead Shall Not Rest by Tessa Harris

Double Cannonballing with a Messy Author - Trickster’s Choice/Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce

Content warnings are a thing for a reason. - Real Artists have day jobs by Sara Benincasa

A Slight Disappointment - A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley

Mostly Boring Dinners - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Snoooooooze. - Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

Goodreads confirms that it is NOT just me. - Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

“My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.” - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Business Advice for the Previous Century (Unintentionally, I Think) - Don’t Take the Last Donut by Judith Bowman

If IKEA was built on the site of an abandoned super scary prison - Horrorstor: A Novel by Grady Hendrix

Sad story, annoying envelope - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Dark high fantasy that just didn't do it for me. - The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

A book that has since passed its time - You Just Don't Understand! by Deborah Tannen

Okay, first of all -- the main character's name is Hawthorne - The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

The Knife of Not Really Getting Into It - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

He may be able to turn a phrase, but I'm thinking Hemingway isn't for me - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, John Slattery (narrator)

Friendship is magic - Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan

A series of lies - The Girl with the Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

Coney Island Love Story - The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

Two books I don't think I could even begin to build a bridge between - Diving Pool; Visitation Street by Yoko Ogawa; Ivy Pochoda

Anecdotes in search of a science - Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-davidowitz

This head witch needed more training - The Midnight Witch by Paula Brackston

Mean Girls - The Girls of August by Anne RIvers Siddons

Everything That I Never Told You For No Reason Other Than to be Super Frustrating - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

I feel like Alicia Silverstone in Clueless: Way harsh, Tai. - The Gloaming: Rise of the Stealth Elder Vampire by ML Worthingham

I know nothing about Finnish names - The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Maybe Courtney Milan has spoiled me and my expectations are too high - The Best Man (Blue Heron Series - Book 1) by Kristan Higgins

More AIM conversations than I expected. - Where Am I Now by Mara Wilson

In which your hero is disappointed about his experiences with the Novel Book by Boz - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Nope - Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

If only there were some kind of adage to warn me - A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King

I did not enjoy it. - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

I can't muster enough feelings for this to come up with a snappy title - Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica

More like Bore: Goddess of Thunder - Thor Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer? by Jason Aaron

OMG this was bad. Like bad, but I still wanted to read it bad. - Wicked by Joanne Fluke

Such a Disappointment - In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

Which witch is which? - Hawkweed Prophecy by Irena Brignull

A Slow Burn That Ends in a Fizzle - Dear Aaron by Mariana Zapata

I wanted a deep dive; this was more like a splash pad - Present at the Future by Ira Flatow

A coat of many murders - The Lanvin Murders by Angela M. Sanders

Why is Frank Miller so Beloved? - Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

Killer look lacking in intrigue - Killer Look by Linda Fairstein

I Can Smell the Privilege from Here - The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck by Sarah Knight

I'm All for the Whimsical and Weird but... What to Heck? - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

What Did I Just Read? - The Changeling by Victor Lavalle

Into the Ghostlands - Briar Queen by Katherine Harbour

Wonder Woman and I Are Confused - Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Lies (Rebirth) by Greg Rucka

Do Not Enter The Dragon - Bruce Lee by Mike Baron

I'm several decades too young for this one - Dropped Names: famous men and women as I knew them by Frank Langella

Poor unfortunate retelling - Poor Unfortunate Souls: A Tale of the Sea Witch by Serena Valentino

But damn, that title - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Needs a Dash More Spider's Eye - The Familiar by Jill Nojack

Wasn't this a Jennifer Lopez movie? Well, except for the murder... - Veil of Night by Linda Howard

Next time the Library, not Bookstore - The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

I really liked it, until I didn't. - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

I Missed Marple - The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

It's all part of her rock and roll fantasy - The Rock Star in Seat 3A by Jill Kargman

Kids making bad choices is a hard pass from me. - The Pigman by Robert Zindel

I feel guilty I didn't like this more - We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby

Too Bleak for Me - Noir by Diana Schutz

Breaking my teeth on the sweetness - The Dream-Maker's Magic by Sharon Shinn

Confidence With Some Product Placement And Gender Norming - How to Be a Bad Bitch by Amber Rose

If Princess Leia got corrupted and Vader was absent, would you still like Luke? - Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine

Redeeming a (not so) notorious lady - An Affair with a Notorious Heiress by Lorraine Heath

Sacrifices understanding for looking real smart. Mistakes complexity for depth. - Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) by Yoon Ha Lee

Like hope, stupid also floats. - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Pretty Woman - Review #: Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour by Dita von Teese

A Southern Gothic fail - Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt

Welp. - The Wicked and the Divine by Kieron Gillen et al

This is a lot of novels - Hotel World by Ali Smith

It's not the book, it's me - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Not in the Cards, Mon Ami. - X-Men Origins: Gambit by Mike Carey

You're in a cult, call your dad - The Girls by Emma Cline

'Grimdark' wears out its welcome for me - The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

What If #BlackLivesMatter Was About a White Girl? - Scarlet Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev

I don't generally root for the bad guy... - Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

My Sister Hated It - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Pretty cover, but that's all this book has going for it - Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell

Honestly, by the end of the trilogy, I just felt sick. - Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

Bad Impulses - All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani

This lady talks about chemtrails, I have a hard time believing anything she says... - Heal Hashimoto's: Start with the Gut by Dr. Sharon Lee Rasa

"And Benny might have been clueless about a lot of things, but about one thing he was absolutely right: Your only hope was to Be There..." - We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash

Empty, amusing calories - Sh*t my dad says by Justin Halpern

It Left Me On a Jet Plane - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

I Kind of Just Feel Nothing with this One - Pop by Gordon Korman

Not Sure There’s Enough Here For a Book - The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle

Pride and Prejudice.... if the Bennetts were worse than the original - Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld

Interesting concept, no interesting characters - City at the End of Time by Greg Bear

A for Method, D for Conclusions - What is the Bible? by Rob Bell

Some People Call Him The Space Vampire - The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson

Meh, At Least It's Short! - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Rob Bell is trying so hard to be the "cool pastor" and it's not working for me. - What Is the Bible? by Rob Bell

A frustrating memoir that was billed to me as hilarious. - The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch

Resistance is futile - Acceptance (Southern Reach #3) by Jeff VanderMeer

“My mind considers for one split second a world without Esther, and it makes me feel sad.” - Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica

I should like this book but don't really. - Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

But I miss those hills with the windy pines - The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe

I Slam The Door But Watch What I Say - Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Stepford Town, but not as clever. - Wayward by Blake Crouch

Lacking Evil-Geniusness - Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

Flowery Language Won't Distract Me From My Concerns - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

NightinFail - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

A Tana French wannabe - False Mermaid by Erin Hart

I'm Haunted By the Lives That Wove the Web - The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

You'd Think I'd Learn - Mission to Universe by Gordon R. Dickson

Eminently OK true crime - The Axeman of New Orleans by Miriam C Davis

A Story Focused on Scent... and It Stinks! - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

A disappointing history of Nancy Drew, my childhood hero. - Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

Don't break my rules, please. - If we were villains by M.L. Rio

The Bulletproof Diet - The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey

It Can't Happen Here - It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Black Canary - The Black Canary by Jane Louise Curry

Get it together, Maas - Empire of Storms by Sarah J Maas

If it bleeds, it leads... - Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer

These people are in lust, not love - Winning It All (Hometown Players) by Victoria Denault

Pseudoscience and Nonsense - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

It wore out its "welcome" almost immediately. - The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks by Bethany Keeley

Like “The Secret” With Cussing. That is Not A Compliment. - You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero

Ugh Part two - The Perfectionist by Joyce Carol Oates

I mean it's better, but with one huge caveat - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Forgive me, I did not like this - Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Am I getting to old for this shit? - Becky Albertalli by The Upside of Unrequited

This one feels like a cheat - Gone by Adam Croft

Not another thing, please - And another thing... by Eoin Colfer

Modern Fairytale. Race Relations. Intriguing premise, flat execution. - Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

I Might Be in the Minority Here, But I Wasn't Really Feeling This One - 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

How to Train Your Duchess - My Fair Duchess by Megan Frampton

Maybe It's Because I Like My Dresses To Come in Bright Colors - White Dresses - A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters by Mary Pflum Peterson

I should not be obliged to hear this voice. - White Tears by Hari Kunzra

We're all flawed - Go set a watchman by Harper Lee

Some folks is brushed by the hand o' God. Some folks brushed by that Other One. - Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2) by Balogun Ojetade

The Woman in Cabin 10 or How Unreliable is this Narrator, Really? - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

I will not submit. - Submission by Michel Houellebecq

This took three years to write? - Unfriending My Ex: And Other Things I'll Never Do by Kim Stolz

Too Much and Too Little: The Muse - The Muse by Jessie Burton

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt - Company Town by Madeline Ashby

- The sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Random and Vaguely Disturbing - Eggshells by Caitriona Lally

Reading the reviews sums up the experience. - Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason

Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. - Nugget & Fang Friends Forever- or Snack Time? by Tammi Sauer and Michael Slack

My Watch Has Ended - Dead Ever After & After Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #13 & 13.5) by Charlaine Harris

So much yawn - The Third Gate by Lincoln Child

Going South - The North Water by Ian McGuire

Lost and Found? - The Lost City of Z by David Grann

All ends well for the white man. - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Alec Baldwin <3 Alec Baldwin - Nevertheless by Alec Baldwin

Picture Katniss Everdeen, but as a Crybaby - Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

I'm missing something - The tiger's wife by Tea obreht

The one with the kid in a cravat and top hat - Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson

I feel like this was a massively missed opportunity to really open up some important discussions. But I don't know how I would change it. - 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Death by Stiletto - Shoes to Die For by Laura Levine

End of Watch - End of Watch by Stephen King

Not-so Perfectly Matched - Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult

A B-movie Kind of Book - Killer Crabs (Crab Series Book 2) by Guy N. Smith

Time Traveling Clipper Ship - To Sail the Century Sea by G.C. Edmondson

Wash, rinse, repeat. - Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child

Enjoyable but underwhelming - The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Three tales of Agatha Christie - Death Comes As the End, Death in the Clouds, Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

Personally, I wasn't impressed - Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal by Russell Brand

The Bloat Between Oceans - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Well, it was worth the quarter I paid for it...maybe - Hanging Up by Delia Ephron

Love the Title and Cover, Not So with the Story - Secrets and Sensibilities by Regina Scott

- Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan

A frightening man, a so-so book - Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wentzl, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana, L Kelly

She Alone Will Wield the Strength and Skill.... - The Falconer by Elizabeth May

I wanted to love this. But I just couldn't bring myself past feeling lukewarm. - The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg

The Art is Better Than the Story - Monstress Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

A long time ago, being crazy meant something. Now everybody is crazy. - The Girls by Emma Cline

Harry Potter and Back to the Future II - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany

Tastefully Generic - All in Good Taste by Kate Spade New York

It's already happening here...so why am I reading about it? - It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

Starry Eyes have worn off on this series - Star Crossed by Emma Barry & Genevieve Turner

I Know What You did Last Solstice - A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan

In which I learn I am definitely over the YA love triangle - Descendants by Rae Else

I rarely rate celeb memoirs so badly, but wow...this wasn't good - I Hate Everyone, Except You by Clinton Kelly

Seriously, just call the cops. - The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg Book 1) by Lene Kaaberbol

Honestly tho, what kind of donut shop only has crumb donuts - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Mildly Entertaining - Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher

A Gamache Novella - The Hangman by Louise Penny

How to Ruin a Lady's Reputation in a Fortnight - Surrender to Sin by Nicola Davidson

Jam Packed, Still Boring - In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen

CBR9 #4: Missing Meh - Missing People: Disturbing Stories From The Last 100 Years: People That Disappeared Without A Trace by Roger P. Mills

Stinky gross werewolves. - The Devourers by Indra Das

Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam - The Bastard of Instanbul by Elif Shafak

“Everything’s a haunted house in today’s America. Everything’s in need of an exorcism.” - Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

I [don't] wanna live with a Vinegar Girl - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

A Tedious Mystery - The Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick

I Believe the Zombie Children Are Our Future - The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

So here's my issue with superhero movies.... - Nowhere Near You (Because You'll Never Meet Me #2) by Leah Thomas

I shouldn't know more than our culture's leading experts... - What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis

I'm clearly an idiot with a Sophie Kinsella problem. Send help. - My (Not So) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella

Remember PattyKates' Raisin Sex Metaphor? - Man Candy by Melanie Harlow

I Stand Alone on this Hill - Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

The Girl on the Hen - In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

Who Knew Vampires Could be so Boring? - House Rules by Chloe Neill

Better than The Trap, worse than having not read it - Disclaimer by Renee Knight

Bark bark bark bark bark - Bark by Lorrie Moore

Even H.G. Wells Can't Save a Timey Wimey Mess - Expeditions to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder

A lot of wasted potential - Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal

Canadian Goonies - Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks

The Hearts Wants What It Wants - Wicked Heart by Leisa Rayven

Don't Judge an Author by One Book (Especially Not This One) - Destination: Void by Frank Herbert

'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Core of the Disturbance - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Yeah, but WHY are they friends? - The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

If you like descriptions of cleaning and sorting wires...this one's for you! Including some [NSFW] gif'ing - The pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs by Christina Hopkinson

Good at Games - Good at Games by Jill Mansell

Book Two Doesn't Work At All - Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver

"I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself" - The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

“All secrets lead back to the big secret. To give one thing away means to give everything away.” - Invisibility by Andrea Cremer, David Levithan

Enormous Cosmic Possibilities, Itty Bitty Setting - The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

A second disappointment from another debut author. - History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund

Sigh, ok Margaret Atwood - Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood

Apparently there are boring sociopaths - Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas

I don't agree with the Amazon reviews... - The Devourers by Indra Das

THE CASE OF THE MISSING NUN WHO WAS KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED (except obviously not) - The Mutual Admiration Society by Lesley Kagen

Woman Has Choice Between Man Who Treats Her Badly and a Boring But Nice Guy, Guess Who She Chooses? - The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt

A Dude Born Anew - Learning to Feel by N.R. Walker

Just go watch some DVD commentaries - Joss Whedon: The Biography by Amy Pascale

Sometimes I wonder if I read the same book as everyone else. - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

DC Sniper Case Comes to New York - Apprentice in Death by JD Robb

A future past where you become plant, clone, or cyborg when you die - The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder

Sid is a Jerk - Half-Blook Blues by Esi Edugyan

Not worth the time - Beau Crusoe by Carla Kelly

The Kind Worth Reading On a Beach When You’re Kinda Drunk and Not Thinking Too Hard - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Hustling, hustling - Running by Cara Hoffman

“They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I’ve never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.” - Oh Myyy! by George Takei

Well that was disappointing - The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Pine Cove #2) by Christopher Moore

Fragmented Story - The Crossing by Michael Connelly

Downward Slide in Series - The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

Neither Romance Nor Comedy - Love Handles by Gretchen Galway

On the Road Again - The Scoundrel and the Debutante by Julia London

A Stephanie Plum plot checklist. - Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich

I Have a Lot of Feelings about "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling and Jack Thorne

As if I were no more than a possession for these two creatures to fight over. - The Devourers by Indra Das

Lady, what are you hollering? - Taking What I Like: Stories by Linda Bamber

The Failure Narrative - Season Finale by Susanne Daniels and Cynthia Littleton

Faux Big Chill - In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch

A Crown of Bitter Indifference - A Crown of Bitter Orange by Laura Florand

Mostly Charmless - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Neil's Bride - Lyon's Bride by Cathy Maxwell

Unless you're obsessed with Scientology (like I am), read 'Troublemaker' instead. - Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige, with Dan Koon

Man the French are not funny - The Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert

“The Internet is a place where ideas compete, and bad ideas in particular get shared.” - Oh Myyy!: There Goes The Internet by George Takei

Disappointing. - The Mothers by Brit Bennett

$5 of What-the-What - Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood

Historical Fantasy Takes a Weird Turn - Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle

It's apparently possible to lose me in your book about death - Blue Nights by Joan Didion

Even Casper was a more exciting ghost story than this one - The Haunting of Josie by Kay Hooper

Trading Places for New Adults - Trade Me by Courtney Milan

In which I grew rapidly more disappointed by a book I was sure I was well on my way to loving - Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

I Feel I've Done This Before... - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

Simpering at a Lost Lord - Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney

I don't get it part 2 - Tales of Woodsman Pete by Lilli Carre

I most definitely don't get it Part 1 - Micrographica and The Ticking by Renee French

"I don't trust unfinished novels." - vel veeter (me) - Sanditon - The Watsons - Lady Susan by Jane Austen

This is how you lose her - Fairy Tale Edition - A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham

Good Concept That Didn't Pan Out - Afterparty by Daryl Gregory

Not as Good as P.S. I Like You - The Distance Between Us by Kasie West

I Wanted More Stuff to Blow Up in the Lab - The Secret of Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes

My Lord and What Now? - My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne

Nothing from my childhood seems to hold up except Stephen King - Miracle Cure by Michael Palmer

King Mark Does Not Equal King Arthur - The Nightingale Legacy by Catherine Coulter

A few words about St. Angelicus - The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald

Hers must have been the last generation to fall in love without hope in such an unproductive way... - Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

Stockholm syndromed by a crappy book. - Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline

Stealing sperm is not ok! - Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

No rogues here, just a boring tale - Sometimes a Rogue by Mary Jo Putney

The Duke of Problematic Heroes - The Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

It's OK to be Genre Fiction, I Promise - The Quick by Lauren Owen

Oh SNAP! - Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell

Everything comes entirely too Easy - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

Deaf Culture and Adoption - Finding Zoe by Brandi Rarus

The problem here is I don't think I like short stories - the Tent by Margaret Atwood

Pretty Forgettable - The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Why Do I Keep Reading These? - A Cast-Off Coven & Hexes and Hemlines by Juliet Blackwell

Sleeping Beauty, Environmental Warrior - Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper

I'm beginning to fear Maria Semple was a One Hit Wonder - Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

Basic Witch - Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell

Well, It's Obviously Not a Vampire - Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Good, but not so good I'd intentionally read it. - Redeployment by Phil Klay

Lost in translation? - The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Great expectations: why did this have to be my first cannonball - Great expectations by Charles Dickens

Underwater - The Book of Speculation: A Novel by Erika Swyler

The Monumental Effort of Tidying Up - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

A telenovela by any other name smells like a telenovela - Contigo en la distancia by Carla Guelfenbein

Oh, why did I choose to read porn again? - The Boss's Daughter by Jasmine Haynes

Everything is terrible: Why I need to stop reading YA romance - The Wrath & The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

Wake up, you're not asleep. - The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

Is gaslighting less expensive than electric lighting? - Trust by Jana Aston

Nope - The Chocolate Kiss by Laura Florand

I should have known there wouldn't be more dialogue in this one... - Everything I Never Told You by Celest Ng

A Love Story Behind a Politically Powerful Mughal Empress - The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

Then Comes *snore* - Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh

“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” - Feed by M.T. Anderson

A series to skip - Marked (Servants of Fate, book 1) by Sarah Fine

I want to say I excpect more from Gaiman, except when it comes to his short stories I don't really. - Trigger Warnings: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

It's about Christian aliens. Or long distance relationships. I'm not sure. - The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

Completion of My Quick Romance Reads! - Reckless by Amanda Quick

Definitely not The Descent - Descent by Tim Johnston

Learned all the wrong lessons from George RR Martin - Shadow's Edge (Night Angel trilogy, book 2) by Brent Weeks

Trudge: The Unmooring of Exposition - Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow

The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga #3) - The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart

Two books for the price of no thanks - Brilliance & The Last Policeman by Marcus Sakey & Ben H. Winters

A book whose reviews might be more entertaining... - The Good Neighbor by A.J. Banner

I wish I hadn't read this, but also I'm glad I did so I can stop worrying about it and just forget it exists. - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany & J.K. Rowling

Not Really About Loving Cleve - The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane

A magical ice apocalypse in Dublin - Iced: Fever Series Book 6 by Karen Marie Moning

The Not So Amazing Adventures of Zelikman & Amram - Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Running Just as Fast as He Can - The Flash: Vol. 5 History Lessons and The Flash: Vol. 6: Out of Time by Brian Buccellato and Robert Venditti

wtaf - Out by Natsuo Kirino

Goblins, Gnomes, Cobs, Oh My! - The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

A World War II story that did not impress - The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

"What's life for?" - Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

Orientalism at its whitest - Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson

Cannonball!!! - Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Vol. 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A Christmas Romance - A Wallflower Christmas (Wallflowers #5) by Lisa Kleypas

And Sometimes You Just Shouldn't Read the Sequel - Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter

Thunderbird shifter hero<Dragon shifter hero - Storm's Heart by Thea Harrison

The Middle Sister is Made of Meh - CBR 8 - Review #1 - The Songbird's Call by Rachael Herron

Disappointment in space - Probability Space by Nancy Kress

I don't care how inbred he was, I'm not going to feel bad for this guy - Darkness Under the Sun (What The Night Knows 0.5) by Dean Koontz

Not just a plot twist, but an entire genre twist! - Oxygen by Carol Cassella

Another frustrating stab at Turkish existentialism - The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk

"The madness inside will haunt you forever..." - The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Plucky Heroine is Stupid - The Glass Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

This book had some great elements that just did not come together in any cohesive way - Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney

We're all so much alike, and yet so utterly different. - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Cross, Cross, Cross ... - Mary Mary by James Patterson

"Barrel Fever" is the DTs, FYI - Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays by David Sedaris

What was I really expecting, with a title like that... - fml by Shaun David Hutchinson

"An atmosphere, a force - I do not exactly know what to call it - of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger" - The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Where'd You Go, Maria Semple - This One is Mine by Maria Semple

A Lot Less Special Than I Wanted it to Be - Murder at Ford's Theatre by Margaret Truman

A disappointing sequel to a book I adored - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry #2) by Rachel Joyce

“I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.” - Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments by Celia Rivenbark

Online Reviews Are Unreliable, As If More Proof Were Needed - Sweet Girl by Cristin Harber

The "terror" here quickly becomes pretty dull - Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson

Sure the dogs are fine but the LAMBS - Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman

This book made me so angry that I have to remind myself what I liked about it so I don't rate it lower then I already have. - Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews

Less romantic and more just tragic - Keepsake by Sarina Bowen

Oh, Brother - Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

Mike Mullane: juvenile ass & proud of it! - Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane

Early Fantasy: Long Stories in Which Not Much Happens - The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

Gone, Baby, Gone - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

After a While You Get Used to Mediocre Memoirs - After A While You Just Get Used To It: A Tale of Family Clutter by Gwendolyn Knapp

Please don't kick me out... - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Yet Another Childhood Favorite Ruined - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Fairytale Retellings that Didn't Speak to Me - Black Swan, White Raven by Ellen Datlow (editor)

A Slight Trick of the Mind - The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout

Bland and annoying - Coming In From the Cold by Sarina Bowen

Glenn Beck's fever dream. - Rapunzel Let Down: A Fairy Tale Retold by Regina Doman

When Does Pastiche Cross the Line into Copying? - Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

Celebrity encounters and other tales - You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: And Other Stories by Alan Cumming

"She loves music," he said. 'If she loves music, why does she do this?' I asked." - Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!! the Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer by Darryl W. Bullock

A lot has changed in 12 years - Yeah, I Said It by Wanda Sykes

Can I say it sucked? - Thirsty by M.T. Anderson

Next Time I'm Renting the Movie - White Bulger, The FBI, and A Devil's Deal: Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill

Mediocre Mismatch - Mismatch by Tami Hoag

I Read This Book and I Have No Recollection - Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovitch

A Book Review About a Book I Cannot Remember...Let's See How This Goes - The Drowning Game by LS Hawker

The review in which a misunderstanding and an international incident lead to a DNF - The Girl You Lost by Kathryn Croft

Between okay and dumpster fire... - A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

Boom! Crash! Cannonball. - Storm Front by Jim Butcher

A resounding meh - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

“Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff.” - Live and Let Die (James Bond #2) by Ian Fleming, read by Rory Kinnear

A Deep Cut of a Mary Balogh - A Masked Deception by Mary Balogh

Get off my lawn, you little punk - Punkzilla by Adam Rapp

“To quote one Valley sage, if your idea is any good, it won’t get stolen, you’ll have to jam it down people’s throats instead.” - Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Bad Bond Knock-off - Scratch One by John Lange (penname of Michael Crichton)

Why do I punish myself and continue to make myself finish books I'm no longer interested in? - Scoundrel by Zoë Archer

“The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.” - Armada by Ernest Cline

A Book To Cure Insomnia - Teaching Spanish, My Way by Dee Eldredge

And now...my LEAST favorite L'Engle - Many Waters by Madeleine L'engle

Eh. - The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

If by "Legend" you mean "won't be remembered next week," sure. - Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

Kinda Boring, for a Thriller - The President's Shadow by Brad Meltzer

The Movie Looks Better - Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

Everyone else seems to like this, just FYI. - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Read one of Meljean Brook's other paranormals instead - Frozen by Meljean Brook

Something a bit familiar about this one... - Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Another problematic medical memoir. - Something for the Pain by Paul Austin

This one starts decently but then...it gets worse - It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays by Shane Dawson

Space! Romance! Murder! - In the Black by Sheryl Nantus

That Was Definitely Not What I Thought It Would Be - More Than This by Patrick Ness

How can moving dead bodies be dull? And yet...here we are. - Body Movers by Stephanie Bond

Mostly the Same, but Worse - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

Pretty sure Abigail Bartlet wouldn't have put up with Mat with one T - First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Stephanie Plum: no character development since 2005 - Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich

“It was her style, that indefinable asset. It was said that the others had style but Babe was style.” - The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

“I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.” - When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord

Too much magic in this magic realism - Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Just So-So Stories - Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe

90% great, 10% WHAT?! - Bedside Manners by David Watts

Naughty Vikings Need Love Too - The Angel Wore Fangs: A Deadly Angels Book by Sandra Hill

Halfway to Goal - The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

Maybe she's not the best role model - The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Weird Sisters - Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart

Sneak Preview of The Flash Season 3 - Flashpoint by Geoff Johns

The Man Without a Story - Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller

"But are they the right sort of pe.."" zzzzzz - A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

"There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old..." - Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan

Henry Castle is no Richard Castle, that's for sure - Loves Me, Loves Me Not by Libby Malin

Not so sweet - The Sweet Spot by Stephanie Evanovich

You say, the price of my love's not a price that you're willing to pay - Who Do You Love? by Jennifer Weiner

"I feel it - I've been living in a world, but what I have is a universe" - You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour, David Levithan

too many bennies - Book of Blues by Jack Kerouac

“People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.” - At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

Death is only the beginning of the reunion you did not know you wanted - The Returned by Jason Mott

Slow your roll, Nicholas Sparks - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Preachy Fairy Tale - The Shadow of the Bear: A Fairy Tale Retold by Regina Doman

Theater of the Absurd in the Mediterranean Theater - Catch- 22 by Joseph Heller

If only I'd read this right after the others - Winter by Marissa Meyer

If only these novels stayed in The Edge - Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews

“As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.” - You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan

Fish Are Boring and I Don’t Really Like Them - Cod: A Biography of fish that changed the world by Mark Kurlansky

I Promise I Tried With This One - The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

How can something so weird be so unmemorable? - The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman

Yes, there's also Chewbacca origami - The Secret of the Fortune Wookie by Tom Angleberger

“After all, in this life we do not know what lies before us.” - The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport

Shades of Red - When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

I really hated these bitches - Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

Borderlands means black and white morality I guess? - Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews

They were smart to turn this into a movie instead - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills - Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

Babes in the Wood - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

“All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

"Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually it can." - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

I reject your heroine and substitute my own, part II: the ginger mollusc - The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter

Stereotypical Girl with a Terrible Home Life - Survivor of the Rain by Cassandra Webb

“The past is just something that's over.” - A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

A disappointing and sneakily non-affirming book - Love is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community by Andrew Marin

Repetitive sequel adds nothing to the series - Shifter by Alma Alexander

Camping in the snow is not so sexy - Darkness by Karen Robards

Lazy Daisies...Mild Wildflowers... - Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heablerlin

I didn't like it, and I feel really bad about that - Anathem by Neal Stephenson

The worst road trip since Crossroads - Perfect Days by Raphael Montes

That "Blah" Feeling When Something Is Objectively Fine But Just Not for You - Damned by Chuck Palahniuk

Ah, Ableism - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Predictable, Boring Gothic Romance - The Shadows of Stormclyffe Hall by Lauren Smith

Poirot would not approve of this lack of Order. - The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

Not Too Subtle, Eh? - The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

The Last Deb - Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes

When we finally learn to time travel, it will probably be just as boring as this - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for - The Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

"Dig me out, dig me in. Outta this mess, baby, outta my head" - Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Day After Day - another day by David Levithan

You have to do more than just change the terminology to make it sound new - Tankborn by Karen Sandler

A Sad, Disappointing End - The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne Valente

I Wanted Him to Die Quicker - Denton Little's Deathdate by Lance Rubin

Meh. A lot. - White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

An extended grumble with a few facepalms and at least one out loud "WHY" - A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

Medieval Were-Bugs - Abomination by Gary Whitta

An objectively great comic that I didn't enjoy and don't want to read anymore - Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, FIona Staples

Not Exactly Irresistible - Irresistible by Susan Mallery

Unfinished Symphony - The Chimes by Anna Smaill

Does *anyone* who's read this book think Richard is a hero? - Soul of the Fire (Sword of Truth, #5) by Terry Goodkind

Manufactured, paint by numbers chemistry. - Sweetest Scoundrel (Maiden Lane, #9) by Elizabeth Hoyt

My vitriol was a guiding light through this teenage romance. - November 9 by Collen Hoover

A memoir that disappointed my expectations - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Couple that Slays Together Stays Together - Married With Zombies (living with the dead #1) by Jesse Petersen

Powerful Female Muslim Historical Figure...Or Lovesick Teenager? - The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

Endless Philosophizing Doesn't Make a Story - A Guide to Bars and Nightlife in the Sacred City by Benjamin Wachs

Good Premise But Boring - Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander

The Naked Eye - I'd like to poke it - The Naked Eye by Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen

And this is why I don't like reading books by a 'friend of a friend' - The Curse Merchant by J. P. Sloan

Reader, I was disappointed. - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

Ugly Things in the Darkness, Worse Things in Store - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

This may be cause for a mutiny - Bounty by Kristen Ashley

I really wanted to like this more than I did... - Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

In which there are many words, but nothing happens - The Infinities by John Banville

There Once Was a Spinster Named Lucy - The Spinster's Guide to Scandalous Behavior by Jennifer McQuiston

One of these things is not like the other - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

A plotty book. - Kindred by Octavia Butler

Djibouti? I recommend you Dji-don't - Djibouti by Elmore Leonard

And in the darkened underpass, I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last. But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask. - The More You Ignore Me by Jo Brand

I should have just reread In Cold Blood - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Fifteen minutes of fame or tales of a drone mother - Mother, Can you Not? by Kate Siegel

Nothing like waiting four months to post my first review... - How to be Good by Nick Hornby

What even happened here? - The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

I wish I would have realized this series is not for me before I wasted all this time reading it. - Their Fractured Light (Starbound, #3) by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Bite Me - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

If You Met the Devil In Person, Would You Notice His Horns? - Clovenhoof by Heide Goody Ian Grant

Seriously, f#ck Akron - Jeffrey Dahmer: An American Nightmare by Don Davis

This book brought to you by a bunch of flimsy plot devices. - Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

Imitation can be Fun, But it's Rarely Art - Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

Fine for Casual Bus and Bedtime Reading - Sedition by Tom Abrahams

Sometimes a good book just doesn't do it for you. - All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

A Trip Back in Time - Nobody's Darling by Theresa Medeiros

I Think I Need to Abandon Ship - Captive Prince, Book One by C.S. Pacat

Go read Head Full of Ghosts instead - The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

Needs more wine. - Tangled Vines: An Australian Rural Romance by Nicole Flockton

A Long Story of Misunderstanding - The Duke's Disaster by Grace Burrowes

Zack Snyder + Hanna Barbera = This Depressing Comic Book - Space Ghost by Joe Kelly, Ariel Olivetti

Thank God (Or Gods) It's Over - Creative Mythology by Joseph Campbell

Missionary Position? Annexation, Eventually. - Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell

Nostalgia is a Powerful Thing - The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, Vol. 1) by L.J. Smith

It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

I'm on a Horse! - Resenting the Hero by Moira J. Moore

Sophie Hannah, are you okay? - The Orphan Choir by Sophie Hannah

Kaitlyn's Pants and the Poor Little Rich Boy - Attraction, Heat and Capture: Elements of Chemistry by Penny Reid

Fake Out - Madeleine’s War by Peter Watson

Warning: May Cause Indigestion - The Dinner by Herman Koch

Mothers and Daughters and Meh - Fortune's Daughter by Alice Hoffman

Wink wink nudge nudge, parenthood, amirite? - Fathermucker: A Novel by Greg Olear

Get out of My Dreams and into My Kindle - reams: Discover the Meaning of Your Dreams and How to Dream What You Want - Dream Interpretation, Lucid Dreaming, and Dream Psychology (+BONUS) (Dream Analysis, Dream Meanings, Lucid Dream) by Angel Greene

So Bad - Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Holmes Without Holmes - Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

A dark children's book that's not really for children - The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

The Brother's Grimm Did It Better - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Please don’t make me defend a Nazi sympathizer - Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives by Karin Wieland

I'm a Survivor: A Memoir of Abuse - Why Me? by Sarah Burleton

If she only had a spine - Hired Bride by Noelle Adams

A miserable collection of short stories - Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Not to be political, but Obama was wrong... - Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff

Do Not Talk to the Police Without Your Attorney Present - Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts

When Are You Leaving - Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal

Best of Wives and Best of Women - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Good, Could've Been Great - Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel by Julia Pierpont

A Regency office romance - Seducing Mr. Knightly by Maya Rodale

Middle children are so underwhelming - Unraveled (Turner series #3) by Courtney Milan

Just Your Average Tuscan Count Olive Oil Billionaire - The Tuscan's Revenge Wedding by Jennifer Blake

Quarter Cannonball with a Novella. Sounds Right. - Beautiful Boss by Christina Lauren

Ahhh Buck This Book - Buck Fever by Ben Rehder

Bad Feet - Dancer by Nathan Edmondson, Nic Klein

Almost worth it for the recipes - Blackberry Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke

A romance with all my least favorite tropes - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

Poor Man's Deanna Raybourn - I Adored a Lord by Katharine Ashe

Rules for The Bollywood Bride drinking game - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

I listened but I didn't learn. - Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (The Dowser #1) by Meghan Ciana Doidge

Robin Cook is an old white dude -- how did I never realize this?? - Host by Robin Cook

I don't think she knows what a rogue is. - Sometimes a Rogue by Mary Jo Putney

Maybe it's me? - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

Confessions of a Comma zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris

God Damn It! - A Contemporary Romance - Ninja at First Sight and Happily Ever Ninja by Penny Reid

Another Dinesen strike-out - Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen

No sparks of joy flying here. - Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Pre-CBR Book Club notes. - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

Fault Lines - Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them by Brad Spellberg, M.D.

Show, Don't Hide - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

I'd rather have read a romance featuring Ria's cousin and his wife to be - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

Cupcakes, Some False Advertising, and A Heap of Nonsense - Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

In fair Verona, We lay our scene - Still Star-Crossed by Melinda Taub

I was lulled into liking it by the Irish accents, but quickly realized my mistake - Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

A Bollywood disappointment. - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

Not my cup of tea - Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

I Could Never Be Parisian - A Paris Affair by Tatiana de Rosnay

Too bad the insides weren’t as good as the pretty cover with a cute title. - The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay

Man out of time - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney

"The next steps are dizzying" - Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom by Catriona McPherson

Oh, the places you'll go! - The Places in Between by Rory Stewart

Not a good road trip - The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah Maclean

Bad Harry Potter goes to Narnia Hell Makes for Creepy Dirty Bad Reading - The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Huge Disappointment - The Chocolate Rose by Laura Florand

Even more disappointing - The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long

The last one was fun. This one felt more like homework. - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

The characters and story were fine. The editing? Not so much. - Winter by Marissa Meyer

Honey, I shrunk the scientists and let them fight it out with insects - Micro: A Novel by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston

Not My Life Philosophy - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Meh, it was okay. It's no "Breaking Into the Wild Bad" though...(ugh, that was awful, I'm sorry) - Peace, Love, and a Dead Hippie Chick: A Novel by N. R. Leigh

I Promise The Next Review Will Be Positive - Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren

A telenovela meets Game of Thrones meets Requiem for a Dream (without all the fun parts) - House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Enter at your own risk. - House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Tricked by the lure of a quick read - Alone with You (Kowalski Family #6.5) by Shannon Stacey

Racism and repressed sexuality. Not even as fun as THAT sounds. - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

I’m Not Like Those Other Pastors, I’m the Cool Pastor - Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Like Kool Aid And Boxed Wine (Mixed Together) - Switched (A Humorous Romantic Mystery) by Elise Sax

Magical realism that falls flat - Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman

Treacly Secrets of the Been There, Done That Sisterhood - The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells

Religion Is Hard to Kill - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

The wrong time and medium for this book. - The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive by Marvelyn Brown

YA version of The Bachelor masquerading as dystopian fiction - The Selection. The Elite, The One by Kiera Cass

My Dinner With Ennui - Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

Why would you only spend eleven pages discussing The Daily Show - No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi

Not that I’m an irresponsible or careless person, I’ve just got really bad judgement - Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

Racecar-Driving Lesbian Nazi Spies - Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose

A Lackluster Friends to Lovers Romance - All He Ever Dreamed (Kowalski Family #6) by Shannon Stacey

Rubin's Vase - Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

Raylan returns to Harlan and other stories. - When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard

French WW2 Burnout - All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

If you believe anything can be bigger than Harry Potter, this might be for you - Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

To All the Men I've Loved Before - Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise-Parker

Interesting subject matter, terrible writing - The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Coffee is Unusually Bitter. - Black Coffee by Agatha Christie

Who gives a Helvetica - To Helvetica and Back by Paige Shelton

Stick with Doris Kearns Goodwin - Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson

I urge you to stay so far away from this book you might not even want to read this review. - The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Starting the year with unpopular opinions - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Unlike death I’m late to the party - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Sort of What I Expected - Wildflower by Drew Barrymore

Holden Caulfield Goes to Hogwarts - The Magicians by Lev Grossman

An arranged marriage, two races who hate each other. Of this romance is born. - Radiance by Grace Draven

Sometimes Sequels Are Just Unneccesary - After You by Jojo Moyes

What Does The Biographer Owe Us? - A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley by Neal Thompson

Love in the Literary World - The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman

This is the Letter that Never Ends, Yes it goes on and on, my friends! - Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey

“It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.” - Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The sea will tell, if it can get a word in edgewise - And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce Henderson

How to build a Cannonball Read - How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran

Typing in the '20s - the Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

Just put some nails in your wall. Please. - The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful by Myquillyn Smith

Not really over the moon about this one - Palmetto Moon: A Low-Country Novel by Kim Boykin

Elin's gotta get better names - The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand

Not With a Bang but a Whimper - Make Me by Lee Child

The title of this book has nothing to do with the story. Nothing, - Heat Wave by Jill Marie Landis

Buy a cookbook, people. It's not that hard. - The Undomestic Goddess by Sophia Kinsella

This was a terrible book. - Superman: Grounded, Vol. 2 by J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson

Misery Porn at its worst. - Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Another disappointing theological read. - Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White

Like the Salesman Who Keeps Talking, But You've Already Moved On - The Leader in Me by Stephen Covey & Sean Covey

Wherein I disagree with every single other Cannonballer who has reviewed this book - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Unsinkable doesn't quite stay afloat - Unsinkable: A Memoir by Silken Laumann

Frienemies until the end - The Best of Enemies by Jen Lancaster

Small Victories: At Least They Aren't Wearing Heels Most of the Time - Birds of Prey, #1 by Chuck Dixon, Jordan B. Gorfinckle, Gary Frank, Matt Haley

Officially Tossed From the Fan Club - Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews

Well, I did like the elephant, at least - The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation #1) by Vaseem Khan

A dream turned into a tedious nightmare - The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg

Victorian Maudlin at Its Best - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Captive - Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid: the Tayna Nicole Kach story by Tayna Nicole Kach with Lawrence Fisher

Flames...on the side of my face... - Her by Harriet Lane

Book Meh of the Meh-lands Series - Hidden by Megg Jensen

Post-apocalypse with a political agenda - One Second After by William R. Forstchen

No, None of This is What I Wanted - Black Widower by Patricia Moyes

Perhaps Vowell isn't for Me - the Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

That review where I hand in my CBR card... - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

500 pages of fan fiction - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Not That Matthew Lewis - The Monk by Matthew Lewis

A Spark that Didn't Catch Fire - Border Crossing by Pat Barker

The saddest homage to Jane Eyre ever. - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Opus 63 (actually 65) in three parts: Hop, Joker and High - Fire Inside, Ride Steady, and Walk Through Fire (books 2-4 of the Chaos Series) by Kristen Ashley

Five stars for Kamala; two for this particular book. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona

Halbs Reads His First Romance Novel - Random Acts of Crazy by Julia Jent

Celebrating Someone Else's Cannonball - The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and two not so great ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller

The Hundred Thousand Meh's - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

Red Sky At Night, Something Something This Is All Bulls--t - Crimson Shore by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Views from a passing train - 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

Revenge of the Sith - Revenge of the Sith by Patricia C. Wrede

In Sherlock's Shadow - Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas

A Collection of Misses with a Small Patch of Light in the Middle - No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

Frommage, Formaggio, Ost, Syr, Kase - Foreign Affairs by Stuart Woods

I'm The Firestarter, The Twisted Firestarter - Invisible by James Patterson and David Ellis

Don't Take My Kodachrome Away - Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Books I Read With My Kid - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Junior Novelization) by Patricia C. Wrede

Caitlin D -- don't read this one - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Great premise, poor follow through - Endangered by Lamar Giles

Wouldn't Even Use This as Litter for my Vampire Cat - Bite Me by Christopher Moore

The Star Wars, Like The Facebook and The Netflix - The Star Wars by JW Winzler, Mike Mayhew

We're all a little special - I'm Special: and other lies we tell ourselves by Ryan O'Connell

Catherine is great, this book is not. - Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

I Only Need One Reason Why This Wasn't Great - Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi

Okay, I Just Have to Admit It, I Hate Magical Realism - Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Just Go Rewatch True Detective - Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

A denominational book of biblical importance that just didn't grab me. - Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen G. White

This series is officially the most batshit thing I've ever read. - Temple of the Winds (The Sword of Truth, #4) by Terry Goodkind

A mostly forgettable collection about Narnia - The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy by Gregory Bassham, Jerry L. Walls

A Search for Nuance Comes Up Dry - One Year After by William R. Forstchen

Is possibly better than the second one, but can't really tell because I skim-read it. - Champions of the Force (The Jedi Academy, #3) by Kevin J. Anderson

An incredibly mediocre young adult novel - Looking for Alaska by John Green

If You're Looking to Reinforce Heteronormative Values, Have I Got A Book for You! - From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Woman by Jodi R. R. Smith

Jojo! Noooo! - Honeymoon in Paris by Jojo Moyes

Will Meh. Will Meh. - Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

A Swing and a Miss - Fender Benders by Bill Fitzhugh

All we can do is play our parts and keep each other company - Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

Jack Be Rapey, Jack Be Quick - Fables Volume 13: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Mark Buckingham

If You Throw Away the First 3/4ths, You Might Have an Okay Book Left - Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

A Meh Take on Friendship and Growing Up - The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe

Open your mouth as wide as you can. I need to shove some pop culture references down your throat. - Armada by Ernest Cline

The Roaring Twenties Were a Snore - Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell

Well. I read this. - Beyond the Veil of Darkness by Esmie Branner

A Slog of a Read - Judaism by Charles Foster Kent & Gustav Karpeles

A Tour I Wasn't Very Interested In. - A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain

Putting the ME-ME-ME in Meditation - 10% Happier by Dan Harris

Death Be Not Proud, F--ksocks - Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore

On The Plus Side, My Negative Reaction Won't Ruin Her Day - E-Cubed by Pam Grout

Twenty-Three Skidoon't - Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

Featuring surprisingly few lepers - The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle

A Book About a Jokey Robot - The Martian by Andy Weir

A sadly disappointing mystery by an author I really like. - The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid

I have an unpopular opinion about this one - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

It's Just Like The Da Vinci Code! That's Not A Compliment! - Seven Wonders by Ben Mezrich

I'm so disappointed that I'm disappointed by this book. - Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3) by Joe Abercrombie

Generic Rich White Guy Saves The Day Again! - Family Trees by Kerstin March

The Most Desperate Girl Alive - Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Eh. - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

A well-intentioned mess - Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Best Part of this Pirate Comic was the Aaaaaarrrrrt - Galveston by Johanna Stokes, Todd Herman

Masters Programs Ruin You for Genre Reading - Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

The McVegemite Crapwich - Private Sydney by James Patterson

Well, That Sucked. JOKE GRENADE. - Blood Infernal by James Rollins

A disappointing disconnect for me - Lumberjanes (Vol. 1): Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Brooke A. Allen

How poorly made we are, she had thought, how insufficient - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Afraid of Vaccination Since 1901 - POX: An American History by Michael Willrich

Not a very shiny star... - The Stars of Mirtha Trilogy by Nora Roberts

In which I am a glutton for punishment - The Glass Magician (The Paper Magician #2) by Charlie N. Holmberg

I am perhaps simply not fabulous enough - The Fabulous Girls Guide to Decorum by Kim izzo, Ceri Marsh

Out of Bounds - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

An Introduction to Christian Theology that Didn't Feel Very Introductory - Christian Theology: An Introduction to its Tasks and Traditions by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert H. King

A triple-dip in which I admit my lust for an Austen villain - Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Old Boning Stone - Naked Greed by Stuart Woods

Good Idea, So-So Execution - The Immortals by James Edwin Gunn

Needs more kidnappings. Or plot in general. - She's No Princess by Laura Lee Guhrke

A Bearded Mess is Still a Mess - Truth or Beard by Penny Reid

Ennui over too many comic-book characters is a thing, I guess. - Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller

A fairly uninspiring historical romance - Catch a Falling Heiress by Laura Lee Guhrke

Two Dimensional Characters, Three Dimensional World - This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

This is how you lose me...(yes, I realize it's been said before). - This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

How to Bore Readers and Lose Their Interest - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Find the singer's gun, then shoot yourself with it - The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel

Growing up (in the north of Sweden) is hard to do - Populærmusikk fra Vittula (Popular Music from Vittula) by Mikael Niemi

Shut up, Juliette - Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

A Long Tale of Sight, Sound, and War - All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Like a bad sitcom - The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman #2) by Graeme Simsion

An underwhelming collaboration from some greats - Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton

Yet another final book in a trilogy that can't stand up to the greatness of the first two books - The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin

Trapped in Faulty Memories - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Pardon Me, My Curmudgeon is Showing - The Corridor by A.N. Willis

Chuck! It's Your Cousin, Marvin Berry! Don't Read This Goddamn Book! - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

An unsuccessful glimpse inside the mind of a killer - Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbo

So Much Potential, So Much Letdown - Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen

This book is the oil; I'm the water. No mixy good together. - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. 'Tis a silly place. - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Who wants to go for a ride? - Stationary Bike by Stephen King

Hangups and hangovers - A Lady of Persuasion (Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy #3) by Tessa Dare

A bit too much mommy-bashing for me - Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

A war-time fable that didn't really work for me - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

You Got Your Nightside In My Peanut Butter! - From a Drood to a Kill by Simon R. Green

One In A Crowd - The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr

Jesus Lite - Messiah by Jerry Thomas

Thank God it was so short - The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey

They Can't All Be Winners - The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty

So Disappointing - The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson

Mr. Maybe You Should Skip This One - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green

Another disappointment out of a promising premise - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

It's Bad When You Don't Think A Crazy Guy is Crazy Enough, Right? - Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

This just...wasn't very good - The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty

Lazy world building - The Maze Runner by James Dashner

So much wasted potential. - The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy

You'll sourrwvive - A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot

It's All Been Said Before - The Third Kingdom by Terry Goodkind

The Begending of the Endginning - The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind

Casual Misogyny Circus - From Russia With Love by Ian Flemming

nope - Wonderful tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Me by Pattie Boyd

You're Like a Disease Without Any Cure - Champion by Marie Lu

gimme a match - Things We Set On Fire by Deborah Reed

We Got Ruby F--king Slippered - Confessor by Terry Goodkind

I would have liked a little more Knightley and a little less Sam. - Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay

Boobs: Does Size Really Matter? - Is it Wrong to Try to Pick UP Girls in a Dungeon? by Fujino Omori

Ironic Title Alert! - The Innocent by Ian McEwan

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - The Liar by Nora Roberts

Cinderella should have skipped this ball... - The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie

These books better start improving, and stat - Brother Odd (Odd Thomas #3) by Dean Koontz

Maybe someday... - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Teenagers: Not so Mysterious, Not so Interesting - The Secret Place by Tana French

By now, I think we've established Hannibal would just eat Thomas Harris - Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

Poems from a Renaissance Man - Letters from the Moon by John Koblas

Do you have a baby? Then you don't have time to read this book. - The Happiest Baby on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp

The Pirates' Life is Not For Me - Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly

What The F--k's A Kahlan? - Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

Well, this was kind of terrible - The City by Dean Koontz

Becky needs an intervention. - Shopaholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella

The Boy Isn't Worth the Trouble - The Boy by Lara Santoro

Kids are not for target practice - Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont

My Lauren Oliver experiment is officially over. No mas. - Rooms by Lauren Oliver

Nope. - A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Quiet but not unpleasant - The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell

A romance with a blind man - Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

The Most Blatant Case of False Advertising Since My Suit Against the Movie The Never Ending Story - Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind

The Little Gray Cells Ride Again - The Monogram Murders by Agatha Christie and Sophie Hannah

Naughty by Nature - Born of Night (The League #1) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fascinating premise, boring execution - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Filling In The Shadows - Tales From The Nightside by Simon R. Green

You Keep Using That Word I Don't Think It Mean What You Think It Means - 314 by A.R. Wise

Mother Daughter Relationships Can Be Complicated - Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little

Disappointed with Pullman - Sally Lockhart Mysteries, Book 1 and Book 2 by Philip Pullman

An Ape, a Griffin, and a Snake Walk into a Monastery - Sin of Origin by John Barnes

Good Intentions, Horrible Execution (No Pun Intended) (I Probably Shouldn't Make Serial Killer Puns) - Sudden Terror: The True Story of California's Most Infamous Sexual Predator - The East Area Rapist, AKA The Original Night Stalker by Larry Crompton

Because the hourglass is running, you pathetic, randy little male spider - Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbo

You Said Rape Twice. I Like Rape! - The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind

It's a Nice Day for a Blood Letting - The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green

The Knights Who Say Ni...ghtside - A Hard Day's Knight by Simon R. Green

Like Eating Too Much Halloween Candy in One Sitting - Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Vol. 1 by David Wood

Lots of people die in Alaska - If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende

A frequently failed fictional foray into Shakespeare's Macbeth - Haunt Me Still by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Some people are little Chernobyls - The Likeness by Tana French

Not Good - The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz

Elf Yourself - The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny by Simon R. Green

The Literary Equivalent of Rachel's Trifle - Shadows Fall by Simon R. Green

While I like to think I'm subversive, I don't think I'm THIS subversive - Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

Yeah, not that complicated - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

A Disaster at the end of this Book - Amityville Horrible by Kelley Armstrong

The downfall of the alpha male - Hush by Karen Robards

Fun story. But fire the editor, please. - Number9Dream by David Mitchell

Coming off the rails - Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Yelling F--k The Police Loses Some of Its Swagger If You're Wearing a Monocle and Top Hat - NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp

All The News That's Print to Give You Fits - The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. Green

Pointless - Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

Secrets, Secrets are no fun - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

I never, ever want to drink Gin & Tonics out of a can on a train. - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Zombies and Satanists and Space Princesses, Oh My! - Reality Dysfunction: Part 1 by Peter L. Hamilton

Time To Take Out The Mom, Garbage! - Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green

Troll the respawn, Jeremy. - In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

A self-indulgent mid-series book that is about 1000 pages too long. - The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5) by Diana Gabaldon

By the Numbers (or I miss Tony and Tia) - I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

Death Chicken Died On The Way Back to His Home Planet - Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind

Following the Space-Time Continuum Always Ends With Your Head Up Your Ass - Paths Not Taken by Simon R. Green

Secrets Are Bad,Yo - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

In which I am about to make Fox News suuuuper angry. - American Sniper by Chris Kyle

Bookstore Shmookstore - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Sing a Sad Song and Make It Way F--king Worse - Nightingale's Lament by Simon R. Green

The World Need Not End Because You're A Shitty Boyfriend - Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind

Quoth the Raven "Oh, God, What for?" - Supernatural: Nevermore - Supernatural: Nevermore by Keith R.A. DeCandido

I Had Some Different Expectations as to What This Would Involve - Children Helping Children with Grief by Beverly L. Chappell

This book is too boring for me to come up with a good title. - The Young Elites by Marie Lu

Disappointing in so many ways - Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Isla and the I couldn't care less - Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Me Read Funny Essays One Day - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

If you like dick jokes, this is the book for you - Everything is Wrong With Me: An American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong by Jason Mulgrew

London, you're a Lady - London's Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn

A Harlan Coben mystery which failed to inspire - The Woods by Harlan Coben

Baby Blues - Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis by Cara Black

Damn It Can Someone Just Make a Decision Already? - Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers by David Perlmutter

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much are gifs worth? - The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

I Swear, I Like Romance...Really! - It Ain't Me Babe by Tillie Cole

If Dexter Had A Baby with Supernatural - I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

A memoir that left me with mixed feelings - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

And While We're At It, Fuck Rupert Brooke, Too - If I Should Die by Matthew Frank

Nope. And too goddamned long. - In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin

Alternative Title: Miss Pym is an Awful House Guest, For Many Reasons - Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

More like the eye-roll in the dark - The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell

All the Cliches You Never Wanted - What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman

Based on a semi-true story? - Miramont's Ghost by Elizabeth Hall

YMMV on this very well-written, hard-to-put-down book with a been-there-done-that 'surprise' ending that I nevertheless didn't like all that much. - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Half Angels vs. Half Angels (With Pictures) - Nephilites: Awakenings by Matt McDowell

This did not live up to its promise. - California by Edan Lepucki

Souls cross ages, like clouds cross skies - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

One of Those Things That I Only Read Because I Had To - Case Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy by Gerald Corey

Not So Legend-waitforit-dary - Neil Patrick Harris: choose your own autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris

Eh. I Mean, Fine. But Eh. - The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau

Kids, Always Have Safe Sex After a Heart Transplant - With This Heart by R.S. Grey

NOmentum - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Worst John Le Carré book ever. - Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Bad in Baltimore - A Fitting Name - Bad Company (Bad in Baltimore) by K. A. Mitchell

Fooled by a name and a good cover - Sneeze on Sunday by Andre Norton and Grace Allen Hogarth

Of Birds and Bees - The Hive by Gill Hornby

The twist is that the vampire is NOT the merciless serial killer - Ex Sanguine by Tim Seeley

Papercut by Polaroids, I Bled To Death Looking For A Band-Aid - Threats by Amelia Gray

So You Think You Can Creative? - Show Up, Look Good by Mark Wisniewski

Shine on you crazy diamond - The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Not the fun "can I put brownies in the waffle iron" kind of experiment - The Experiment by John Darnton

You know that thing? When you get all excited for a sequel? And then it kinda sucks? Yeah. That. - Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

A Middling End for an Up and Down Trilogy - The Death Cure by James Dashner

Preston & Child's Pendergast Series has Lost its Heart - Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Blond, Blue-eyed, Rapacious, and Ployglot - The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

I tried something new. - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Unexpected testicle reference - Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

"Perfect" in a title raises my expectations - Perfect Strangers by Tasmina Perry

OMG #didn'tlikeitmuch - Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Lifetime movie fodder - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

All Fluff and No Substance Makes "Nicholson" a Dull Read - Nicholson: A Biography by Marc Eliot

Debut Harry Hole book is not bad, but contributes little to the Hole story at this late date - The Bat by Jo Nesbo

I really really wanted to love this - Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie

I Wasn't Charmed - Charming by Elliot James

I'm pretty sure I'm too old for this crap. - Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins

I think I preferred the Fox Family version - Fallen & Leviathan by Thomas Sniegoski

Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel Would Rate It Two Meth Teeth out of Five - The Black Dove by Steven Hockensmith

I Really Wanted To Like This (Part One) - Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead

Back to High School, Part 3 - The Last Story by Christopher Pike

The Hundred Foot Journey to Mediocrity - The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais

Have some watered down tea and a dry scone - Among Others by Jo Walton

A resounding meh - One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

Eleanor & Marianne & Sigmund? - Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters & Jane Austen

Inside the mind of a dull guy. - Yoga Sutras by Jackson Radcliffe

Kids in Jeopardy - Part 2 - The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

A Lone wolf finds his mate just in time for Xmas - A Seal Wolf Christmas by Terry Spear

File Under: Self Help, Business - The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

I Think I Need Some Tums - The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard Morais

Inspired by a true story . . . . - Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

Yes, we know strip mining is bad. Where did John Grisham go? - Grey Mountain by John Grisham

Here She Goes Again - Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

Anarchy & Death: A Love Story - The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter

Carnival of Fools - A Girl's Guide to Vampires by Katie MacAlister

I've got a laser pointer, come out and PLAAAAAAAAAY! - Warriors: Fire and Ice by Erin Hunter

King Kong meets Homer in a less than successful adventure - The Lost Island by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

It's a G G G Ghost! - Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

It is What it is - Where We Belong by Emily Giffin

dear mrs kennedy - Dear Mrs. Kennedy: the world shares its grief letters, November 1963 by jay mulvaney and paul de angelis

A Thesaurus for Writers, in Concept Anyway - The Describer's Dictionary by David Grambs & Ellen Levine

Shopgirl by Steve Martin - Shopgirl by Steve Martin

Insufferable WASP Privilege - Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

Suck It, Wonder Woman! by Olivia Munn - Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek by Olivia Munn

Proud Mary - RMS Queen Mary Official Souvenir Guide by Roger Hardingham

Not the best of all possible books. - The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

I AM NOT PLEASED - We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

The internet ruins more of my childhood. - Ripley's Believe It Or Not: Planet Eccentric by Ripley's Entertainment

It's Not All About You - The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan

Millennials are so screwed if this is our future. - California by Edan Lepucki

There’s an excellent book floating around in here somewhere, but... - Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson

A novella that doesn't quite meet the mark - Spun by Catherine McKenzie

Lust vs. Love: Does Janet Evanovich know the difference? - Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich

*hangs head in shame* I forgot to post this back in MARCH - The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1880-1930 by Margaret Lynch-Brennan

A YA historical romance you'd be better off skipping - The Season by Sarah Maclean

A historical romance with Highlanders and the Gunpowder plot. Yup, that one. - X Marks the Scot by Victoria Roberts

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts - Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Only love pads the film. - Blue Mountain Mystery by Rev. W. Awdry

Sociopaths and Avarice -- a nasty combination - Mercy by Julie Garwood

Ol' Bill let me down this time. - Thessaly: Witch for Hire by Bill Willingham

The Fourth Hand by John Irving - The Fourth Hand by John Irving

Dear James Dashner: Really? - The Death Cure by James Dashner

Wait. What? - The Returning by Christine Hinwood

Abusive Husbands and Murder - Hide & Seek by James Patterson

Without the horribleness, she's just boring. I think I understand insult comics now. - Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb

I'm not such a fan, girl - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Landline - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan - Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan

“When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it ’til the end, and somewhere along the line there’ll be weirdness.” - Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Photographing Fairies by Steve Szilagyi - Photographing Fairies by Steve Szilagyi

A Dance with Dullness - A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

Shitty draft by shitty draft - Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

This book in one word: Wut. - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Ben Joe: Doesn't Know Whether to Scratch His Watch or Wind His Butt - If Morning Ever Comes: A Novel by Anne Tyler

Not That Kind of Girl - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham

Welcome to the next installment of WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST READ. Pull up a chair, and have a seat. - Blood of the Fold (The Sword of Truth, #3) by Terry Goodkind

Magic mixes with Hindu mythology in another Kate Daniels adventure - Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews

Don't mess with the Slayer. I'm not having it. - Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper - This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

A [not-so-good], seriously old-fashioned romance novel - A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill

By Lying, Cheating, and Cheating, Yes, "This Is How You Lose Her" - This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Scorch Trials? Try half-baked zombie writing, Dashner. - The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

"Not Only Can I Act, I Can Also Write!"...But Not As Well - When It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories by Molly Ringwald

Riding on my last nerve - Lords of Deliverance Series by Larissa Ione

- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

*whisper* I didn't really care much for this one. *ducks* sorry! - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Style. Ish. - Style by Kate Spade

Meh - Nobody is Ever Missing: A Novel by Catherine Lacey

Stephanie, it's time to grow up. I can't take it anymore. - Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich

A Bit of a Disappointment (or don't read this right after Eleanor & Park) - Panic by Lauren Oliver

Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey...Stuff. - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

That Time Lady Macbeth Went Hunting - Serena by Ron Rash

Housekeeping? More like hoarding, if you ask me. - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

The story of Sensei and his love - Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

Okay, and? - Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion

Another Baldacci popcorn thriller we could probably do without - The Target by David Baldacci

Not as bad as I thought it was going to be. - The One (The Selection, #3) by Kiera Cass

The Excursion Train by Edward Marston - The Excursion Train (The Railway Detective #2) by Edward Marston

Boring & Boring - Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

An unhappy Danish murder mystery with a science twist - The Dinosaur Feather by S.J. Gazan

Full of new concepts and ideas...if you've never read a book before - The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks

Is This the Future of Romance Novels? - The Once and Future Duchess by Sophia Nash

Another unbelievable conspiracy thriller - Face of a Killer by Robin Burcell

Sweet but boring immigrant's tale - Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

A Model Murder - A Model Murder (Alicia Allen Investigates) by Celia Conrad

Baby Jesus Butt Plug - The Baby Jesus Butt Plug by Carlton Mellick III

Gin Bianco is an assassin. She won't shut up about it, in fact - Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep

Son of a *itch - Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

No excuse for another Reacher knock-off by Baldacci - The Forgotten by David Baldacci

Love is a broken pickle dish. - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

A Study in Ambiguous Endings and Disappointment - The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

Gothic crime and Victorian intrigue - Rustication by Charles Palliser

London calling to the underworld - Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

A South Pole Memoir with a side of Passivity - Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielson

A dystopian disappointment - The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Uninterested Reader - The Uninvited Guests: A Novel by Sadie Jones

Eat, Sleep, Game, Repeat...? - A.D.D. Adolescent Demo Division by Douglas Rushkoff

A Bear and a Maiden Sparklepony - The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Rare Occasion When the Movie Is Better - Sleepwalk With me by Mike Birbiglia

Unexpected, in some ways that you want and in some that you don't - A Duke Never Yields by Juliana Gray

Fine If You're Not Holding Out For Accuracy - Alaska By Cruise Ship by Anne Vipond

Math is hard. Also bad for novels. - Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright

Like a Good Salad - Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Sappy pulp fiction - Riot: A novel by Shashi Tharoor

Leaps In the Dust - Dust by Patricia Cornwell

I like the OTHER scarlet letter better - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Trying hard to sensationalize common sense. - Outliers: The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

Weekend in Snoozeville - Weekend in Paris by Robyn Sisman

How to Make an Interesting Topic Unbearable - The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases by Michael Capuzzo

How can you be a teenage misfit when your parents applaud and encourage rebellion? - Teori og praksis (Theory and practice) by Nikolaj Frobenius

insert quippy remark here - Why We Suck by Denis Leary

You you you you you you you you you TOO MANY YOU'S. - The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

I Am Pilgrim, Hear Me Bore - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Peer Pressure and Cartoon Villainy - The Dare by RL Stine

A Novel of Ridiculous Coincidences - Sunburn by RL Stine

Ever Heard of a Broken Aesop? - The Cheater by RL Stine

Mad at Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy by Helen Fielding

Things That Go "Blah" in the Night - Eerie by Blake Crouch

So Much to Recommend It, But It Didn't Live Up: Guests on Earth - Guests on Earth by Lee Smith

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

CANNONBALL! “Shadow Lord ”: Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #52 - Shadow Lord by Laurence Yep

Pemberley Has Problems - Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Fun Quick Read - I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer

If everyone belonged to only 1 of 5 categories, which would you be? NONE because that's ridiculous. - Divergent by Veronica Roth

A Snob reviews The Shack - The Shack by William Paul Young

If this book were a T-Pain song, it would be called, "I'm in love with a student." - The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

A Southern Trainwreck of a Novel - South of Broad by Pat Conroy

Never Trust a Man Called Gaston - Seven for a Secret by Victoria Holt

Well-Hung Angels and the Anxious Investment Bankers Who Love Them - Trinity Stones: The Angelorum Twelve Chronicles by L.G. O'Connor

“Hush” A play script Vangie13 cbr #48 - Hush by April de Angelis

A Promising Start That Turns Into One of the Worst Love Triangles Ever - Splintered by A.G. Howard

A book easy enough for your dog to understand, but maybe not you. - How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel

The Harm in Asking - The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race by Sara Barron

Somewhat Spotty Storytelling - The Incrementalists by Steven Brust and Skyler White

pAper TownS - Paper Towns by John Green

She may be the daughter of gods, but she's pretty dumb - The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White

Notes from the Underwire - Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life by Quinn Cummings

“Mudd’s Angels”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #41 - Mudd's Angels by J. A. Lawrence

“Vulcan’s Soul: Epiphany”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #40 - Vulcan's Soul: Epiphany by Josepha Sherman & Susan Schwartz

A Tragic Time in History Used as the Backdrop for a Bad Love Story - The Disappeared by Kim Echlin

Solving Camelot Crimes Pompously and Pretentiously - The Excalibur Murders by J.M.C. Blair

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green - An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

I'll Definitely Forget This Soon - I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

Tick Tock - The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing

Spirituality is a Complicated Subject - Spirituality: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Sheldrake

I Finally Dive into a Graphic Novel - Blankets by Craig Thompson

Midsomer Marple & The Dead Religious Guy - Agatha Raisin & The Curious Curate by M.C. Beaton

John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead - John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

An Abundance of Anagrams - An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

KayKay #CRB6 Review #13 The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Johnny Gone Down by Karan Bajaj – Review #15 for AamilTheCamel - Johnny Gone Down by Karan Bajaj

I'm Weak, Okay? I'm WEAK. - The Mortal Instruments 4: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

But What Are We Trying To Fix Here? - Actors Anonymous by James Franco

No No NOS4A2 - NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Fallen - Angels, Past Lives, and Humans: Oh My! - Fallen by Lauren Kate

Natural Born Killers was over a hundred years late. - The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

The Stunning Conclusion to the Saga - Dragon Kicker XV by Paul Chapman

Yet another disappointing third book in a YA dystopian trilogy. - Champion (Legend, #3) by Marie Lu

3 down, 1 more to go in the series - Messenger by Lois Lowry

Competitive Non-Fiction attempts to read some New Adult Fiction - Easy, Hopeless, Into the Deep by Tammara Webber, Colleen Hoover, Samantha Young

"The ratio of people to cake is too big" - I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This by Julie Jansen

The Demonologist - The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper

Baldacci popcorn thriller ... no nuances, just a fun ride - King and Maxwell by David Baldacci

The Disappointing Disappointment - The Child's Child by Barbara Vine

I'm Glad I Wasn't the Lady of the House in the Victorian Era - Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Mary Beeton

A Chronicle of The Today Show's Downfall, Not So Much Insider Info on Morning TV - Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV by Brian Stelter

Mockingjay a Weak Finish to the Hunger Games Trilogy - Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I'm Sorry You Feel That Way - I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut,Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog by Diana Joseph

Twisted Sisters - Twisted Sisters by Jen Lancaster

I'm going to go ahead and let go of this knife. - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

It's ... Fine - One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B. J. Novak

Everything happens in this book: Snow Crash - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

So continues my quest for the perfect vampire novel... - Dark Moonlighting by Scott Haworth

Not as much fun as Real Vampires - Real Murders by Charlaine Harris

I just want to be Team Heroine, but I couldn't even manage that - Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

The author is a hit (usually); the book is a miss - The Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede

Disappointed Again - American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin

How To Succeed in Business (by Being A White Guy) - Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

The Incrementalists - The Incrementalists by Steven Brust and Skyler White

Same Song, Second Verse - Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich

Alli's Book Club Adventure - Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

“Mutiny on the Enterprise”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #26 - Mutiny on the Enterprise by Robert E. Vardeman

The Hunchback of Lausanne - The Watchers: The Angelus Trilogy by Jon Steele

There will be blood... and angst. - Vampire Academy 2-6 by Richelle Mead

Mad About the Boy? Not me! - Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding

Time. Traveling. Ghost. - Haunted by RL Stine

“Web of the Romulans”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #23 - Web of the Romulans by M.S. Murdock

Pretty Good Taste, Not Very Filling - Everyone Wants to Be Me or Do Me: Tom and Lorenzo's Fabulous and Opinionated Guide to Celebrity Life and Style by Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Adult Male reviews the Divergent Series finale - Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Am I supposed to laugh because there is profanity in the title? - Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James

Three people tell a story. Who is telling the truth? - Innsirkling (Encirclement) by Carl Frode Tiller

Our heroine continues to show extremely questionable taste in menfolk - Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

White Magical Horse and Other Stuff - Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

One Long and Annoying Year - Just One Year by Gayle Forman

CBR VI # 2 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry - Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

“The Abode of Life”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #20 - The Abode of Life by Lee Correy

Another Historical Romance, But with Agita - Nothing to Commend Her by Jo Barrett

Badkittyuno's Review #12: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen

“The Covenant of the Crown”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #18 - The Covenant of the Crown by Howard Weinstein

A spoiled Southern belle gets supernatural powers, goes on a roadtrip with a hard-drinking Cajun. Hijinks ensue - Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

Superheroes Need Grammar and Punctuation, Too (A Robert CBR6 Review) - The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar

“The Klingon Gambit”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #17 - The Klingon Gambit by Robert E Vardeman

Girls in this book are all named things like Dylan, Zadie and Tempest - Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

The Restless Sleep - A History of the Cold Case Squad - The Restless Sleep by Stacy Horn

Mormons An Open Book: What you really want to know - Mormons An Open Book: What you really want to know by Anthony Sweat

The perils of reading a free ARC book - The Opposite of Maybe by Maddie Dawson

I Love Barbara Stanwyck, but this book was looonnnggg ... - A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson

Trilogy Tour #1: The Long Price Quartet - A Shadow In Summer (Long Price Quarter #1) by Daniel Abraham

The Princess and the Terrorist-- I mean, "Outlaw" - Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Robert Galbraith's Breakout Novel? - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Chevalier: I officially don't get it - Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Up in the Air - Dreams of the Solo Trapeze: Offstage with the Cirque du Soleil by Mark Schreiber

In need of some trimming and a new ending - Hideaway by Dean Koontz

I Pledge Allegiants - Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Come for the kitty. Then Leave. - The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie

Explosions are better in motion. - Mythbusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time by Keith and Kent Zimmerman

Killer robots + mental asylum on the moon + nasty divorce = drama - Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick

Bad Decisions: the Novel - The Overnight by RL Stine

Prayers for the Last Page - Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane

KayKay #CRB6 Review #03 Ink (The Paper Gods) by Amanda Sun - Ink (The Paper Gods) by Amanda Sun

You could also use some new ideas - We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

A Spoonful of Sugar or Lemon Juice? - Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

Zombie - Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

Bet Me Doesn't Quite Bite But....Close - Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

Feeling like a sci-fi fan poser - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

Inoffensively Meh - Access Denied by Donna Andrews

Badkittyuno's Review #4: The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp - The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

“Devil World”: Early Original Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #8 - Devil World by Gordon Eklund

World Without End: Early Original Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #7 - World Without End by Joe Haldeman

Once upon a looking for Donna time.... - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The "little grey cells" unstimulated - The Hollow by Agatha Christie

Trek to Madworld: Early Original Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #6 - Trek to Madworld by Stephen Goldin

heartburn - heartburn by nora ephron

Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls - Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee

Glorious Mess - Light of the World by James Lee Burke

Planet of Judgement: Early Original Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #3 - Planet of Judgement by Joe Haldeman

"Spock Must Die!" James Blish (very 1st original Star Trek novel) Vangie13 cbr#1 - Spock Must Die! by James Blish

Farandola? I barely know ya! - A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

Jen K's Review #2: Bellman and Black - Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield