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2 Star Reviews

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

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