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