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3 Star Reviews

I hate it when my internet fame ruins my real life - What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter

A little more than one hundred days into the fortieth year of her confinement, Dajeil Gelian was visited in her lonely tower overlooking the sea by an avatar of the great ship that was her home. - Excession by Iain M Banks

9/11 Truth and Consequences - Intelligence Matters by Bob Graham

Slow build up to a crazy bananapants ending - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

You Can’t Escape Your Past - Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason

Here’s to the Ones that We Lost on the Way - Slipping Into Darkness by Peter Blauner

A semi-autobiographical debut novel that opens up a world - Like Vanessa by Tami Charles

When Pencil Met Purple Marker - When Pencil Met the Markers by Karen Kilpatrick

I (sometimes) like cute stories and I cannot lie - Malina's Jam: Walt Disney Animation Studios Artist Showcase by Svetla Radivoeva; Mindfulness at the Park by Teresa Anne Power

Making Friends one paw at a time - Madeline Finn and the Therapy Dog by Lisa Papp

Slightly Less Bleak Than the Previous Historical Fiction Involving Performers that I Read This Year… - Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

Getting back to my Animorphs re-read, sort of. - The Suspicion (Animorphs, #24) by K.A. Applegate

For the Planetary Good – A Survival Guide - Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again by Lucy Siegle

Another shitty duke not grovelling enough to fully redeem himself - Daring and the Duke by Sarah Maclean

I wanted more about the assassins, less about contemporary American politics - Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Not a damn turtle in sight - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Light Entertainment But With Dragons - Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken

A Bit Mellow for a Smuggling Pirate Heroine - Destiny's Captive by Beverly Jenkins

The more books I read about high school, I feel like mine was weirdly not weird - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, read by Noah Galvin

Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy walk into a bar… wait, that’s not right… - Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir & Sarah Andersen

Dark stuff of fairy tales - Of Salt and Shore by Annet Schaap

A Decade in the Life - The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

“Maybe it wasn’t about the moving to new places, but about the challenge of staying put.” - The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Two Romances, Two Different Responses - The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa; Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

She “needs pictures on her face.” - Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein

In an Occupied Country - The Shadow Killer (Reykjavík Wartime Mystery 2) by Arnaldur Indriðason

“Fanfiction isn’t copying – it’s a celebration. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!” - One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next, #6) by Jasper Fforde

Two murders decades apart, and I’m sorry, your character did what now?? - What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

A Less Charismatic Malcolm Gladwell - Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter

Almost right, but not quite… - Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

Needed more groveling. - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Paternoster Qui Est inFinitum - Beyond Infinity by Eugenia Cheng

With great power comes great responsibility - A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

A Personal Portrayal of a Childhood and Coming-of-Age that Stumbles in the Final Act - We the Animals by Justin Torres

I liked this a lot better than her last book, but Jasmine Guillory and I might be about to part ways. - Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5) by Jasmine Guillory

“Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation – the crime being a lack of means to survive.” - Maid by Stephanie Land

This was . . . weird. - Little Face (Spilling CID, #1) by Sophie Hannah

It makes sense that my US History teacher would love this book so much - The Eight by Katherine Neville

I was prepared to eye-roll through this entire thing– I couldn’t put it down though - Tarot Academy 1: Spells of Iron and Bone by Sarah Piper

…one unalarmed emergency door away from disappearing forever. - Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Hollywood intrigue, flipping houses, graphic novels, and romance! - Tribute by Nora Roberts

“My Happily Ever After was a strand of strung-together happy-for-nows, extending back not to just a year ago, but to thirty years before.” - Beach Read by Emily Henry

“Insidious, these false versions of superiority and ease we project onto other families: how often they blind us to the surer comforts of our own.” - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

A Genuinely Sweet F/F Hockey Romance - Out on the Ice by Kelly Farmer

A Back-and-Forth Mystery with an Interesting Buildup that Didn’t Stick the Landing - The Night Before by Wendy Walker

Where there are women, there are witches - The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

Is a cookbook that’s more about decoration still a cookbook? - Let's Bake! A Pusheen Cookbook by Claire Belton and Susanne Ng

If Start Trek Got Blah and Some Part of it Knew That - Red Shirts by John Scalzi

A satisfying heroine; not Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

A Unique Read, Above All Else. - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

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