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3 Star Reviews

“‘Fourteen million and fifteen percent of the gross?’” - Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

A Hundred Years On, It Still Mostly Holds Up - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

I Didn’t Know Most of This, But Damn - My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen

I’ve got pretty ingrained habits – a romance to start the New Year - Beginner's Luck (Chance of a Lifetime #1) by Kate Clayborn

Ringing in the New Year - Festive in Death by J. D. Robb

Eleanor Oliphant is Really F*cked Up - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Carrie Fisher Tells the Truth - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Risher

Not a prince - Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

Guess Who - Are You a Cat? by Coll Muir

A cheerful story of immigration, loss, and family (Um, not really cheerful). - The Leavers by Lisa Ko

not a series, but out of order none the less - Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

The Series is Greater than the Sum of its Parts - The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang

One more review before the year ends - Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet

What if you could weaponize memories? - The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy

Fiction Year End Round Up - Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perotta; The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis; Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelley ; Mrs Everything by Jennifer Weiner; The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness ; Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan; Bird Box by Josh Malerman; The Inpossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak ; You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

The second book in this metafictional British detective series. - The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne, #2) by Anthony Horowitz

(not exactly) The Prime of Mr. Jackson Brodie - Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

A perhaps overly complex fantasy debut that I think I liked anyway. - The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1) by Jenn Lyons

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 23 – 27 - Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 23 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 24 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 25 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 26 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 27 by CLAMP

Immortal Enemies to Fated Lovers - The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole; Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole

Room Enough to Spread a Dragon’s Wings? - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

So. Much. Drowning. - Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

“I take fifty milligrams of amitriptyline every night, and then an extra ten milligrams of Ambien if I really want to sleep through the night. Sometimes I add a Lunesta, and if that doesn’t work, I get out the Valium—” - Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1) by Kevin Kwan

What Makes a Woman - The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

The spill spilled, spilling red… - Night Shift by Stephen King

Diving Into the Hawkeye Universe - Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction

a slight peek into the obscured past - Costalegre by Courtney Maum

An Entertaining But Forgettable Mystery - The Weight of Lies by Emily Carpenter

More Consequences for Apollo - Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan

Mit de neus umhoeëg - Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter

Supernatural warriors need love too - The Undoing by Shelly Laurenston; The Unyielding by Shelly Laurenston

This movie can’t be anything like the book… - A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell

Only two more of these books to go! I hope someone gives me a medal. - Chainfire (Sword of Truth, #9) by Terry Goodkind

The most important question in video game development has nothing to do with making video games. - Blood Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” - Dracula by Bram Stoker

Entertaining Story But With Missed Opportunities - Supernova by Marissa Meyer

“Love is desire sustained by unfulfillment.” - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Two nerdy characters and a make-over fake dating plot – in a Regency romance - My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 17 – 22 - Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 17 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 18 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 19 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 20 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 21 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 22 by CLAMP

This book was fine. That’s about it - Suddenly Last Summer by Sarah Morgan

Okay, I think I’m really done with Riordan after this series is over. I’m serious this time. - The Tyrant's Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4) by Rick Riordan

Non Fiction End of Year Round- Up - The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn; The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein; Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman; People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry; Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby; The Library Book by Susan Orlean

This one was a disappointment for me, but not the worst thing I’ve ever read. - The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

One Can Tell It Was Written in 1954 - The Little Dictionary of Fashion by Christian Dior

I Don’t Have Room For a Fancy Entrance to My Apartment - Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Homes by Danielle Postel-Vinay

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 14 – 16 - Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 14 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 15 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 16 by CLAMP

I release the lock. I open the door. That’s the best definition of love. - The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt

Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

His name was apparently Charles Penrose and the record was called The Adventures of the Laughing Policeman. - The Laughing Policeman by Maj Slowall and Per Wahloo

- Naming the Jungle by Antoine Volodine

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