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3 Star Reviews

The Pink Hat - The Pink Hat by Andrew Joyne

We learn his banal secrets. We watch as he’s led, shackled and sweaty, into a brightly lit courtroom as someone seated several feet higher peers down unsmiling, raps a gavel, and speaks, at long last, every syllable of his birth name. - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

The (never-ending) End of Food - The End of Food by Paul Roberts

Each one of these ladies deserves a biography - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Read this for the awesome heroine. - A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals, #1) by Alyssa Cole

Good enough to finish – bad enough to have forgotten already - Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh

YOJNE SIHT KOOB! - Zatanna by Paul Dini

Biography of a Truly Despicable Woman - The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Dependable, reliable, responsible…and all those other words that end in ‘ible’ - Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon

So many different things that can petrify you - Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire

I wish I read the book I’m describing… - The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

Don’t rub her the wrong way… - Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews

Triflers need not apply - Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

This did the job - Alexandra Brackens by Never Fade

still in the mood for thrillers - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Catching up with Adam and Ronan - Opal by Maggie Stiefvater

Off on a Pignic - Pignic by Matt Phelan

So much talk of faeries, and none of it good - The Good People by Hannah Kent

White Dudes Walking - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

There is Great Consolation in Simply Doing Something You Love - Still Me by Jojo Moyes

Sounds Like Her - The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

I’m finally finishing the Newsflesh trilogy - Blackout by Mira Grant

Gideon and Sirius find a lost dog… but is the human lost too? - Lost Dog (A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 3) by Alan Russell

Wacky Neighbor, Loyal Dog, and Please Make the Potential Love Interest Go Away - Hounded by Kevin Hearne

I Keep Forgetting I Read This … - The Forgotten Ones by Steena Holmes

Since When Does Dina Have a Sister? - One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

Snow White Trades in Woodland Creatures for a Badge - Indexing by Seanan McGuire

Superman Vol. 5: Hopes and Fears - Superman Vol 5: Hopes and Fears by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Keith Champagne, James Bonny

I’m burning the rabbit hutch myself–it’s mine to burn up! - them by Joyce Carol Oates

Disney Princess, Twist and Twisted edition - Ladycastle by Delilah S. Dawson (Author),‎ Ashley A. Woods (Illustrator),‎ Rebecca Farrow (Illustrator)

A fun enough read, but it was too short - Walk of Shame by Lauren Layne

Can I skip from book 1 to book 4 and just see how it ends? - A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham

Getting closer to the end game… - Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left…. - JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren

Women & Espionage in the World Wars - The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

More Gideon and Sirius – and Sirius lives through the whole book! - Guardians of the Night (A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 2) by Alan Russell

I’m in a YA rut - The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

What happens at Vega’s…. - My Once and Future Duke by Caroline Linden

We don’t need more memories. It’s hard enough trying to get a handle on the ones we’ve got. - Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Kong

Sometimes a Book Teaches Us About Ourselves - Whisper of the Moon Moth by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Killer fog, murder, and sexytimes in Victorian London. - An Unseen Attraction by K.J. Charles

He leans over his notebook, feeling the ghosts of words in his fingers, but instead of words he draws a human torso. - Leah, New Hampshire by Thomas Williams

What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood? - Hunger by Roxane Gay

Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else. - The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher

Another book that felt super 80s to me - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Awesome Info but Attitude goes Bad - Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker

So weird even Wikipedia can’t help explain the Gibson - Neuromancer by William Gibson

Like a Cozy Sweater - Unquiet Land by Sharon Shinn

My insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror - Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim

An Uncomfortably Honest Memoir/Essay Collection - We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

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