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3 Star Reviews

Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray - That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

Trust Me, Hansel and Gretel Are Sweet!: The Story of Hansel and Gretel as Told by the Witch - Trust Me, Hansel and Gretel Are Sweet! by Nancy Loewen

God rest her soul and may she never walk at night - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.” - Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara

Short and Simple Expansion on a Couple of my Favourite Star Wars Characters - Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka

High school drama with vampires - Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

More pathos, less cop drama, please - What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan

Keep the Window Open, Wendy. - City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn

A Romance with Real People - Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai

“Never give up on your dreams, and never let anyone tell you that what you love is inconsequential or useless or a waste of time. Because if you love it?…That is never a waste of time.” - Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale by Ashley Poston

“I did not know why my heart was beating faster than usual. Then I remembered. The old reason.” - The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien

Duped Again by a Playful Book Jacket - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan

Take a Whisk to a Gun Fight - Mise en Death: A LeBeau Chocolates Adventure (Bittersweet Mysteries) by Nikki Woolfolk

“He isn’t the kind of man to keep up literary production as a paying business.” - New Grub Street by George Gissing

Perfectly ok novel, but it was read by Fat Tony, so there you go. - The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Spooky and snoozy - The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

One for the times - Startup: A Novel by Doree Shafrir

Love Children Through the Ages or Where Did That Old Car Come From? - Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams

You remember Alice? It’s a song about Alice… - Alice by Christina Henry

Left me cold - The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber

I now need to bathe in bleach. - Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burns

More like irritated and vaguely excited - Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra (RtD:tPoC) by Anne Rice & Christopher Rice

You wouldn’t say that in a room full of strangers, why say it on social media? - So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

An Atlas of Countries that Don’t Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States - An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States by Nick Middleton

Adventist Authority Wars - Adventist Authority Wars by George R. Knight

More Bad Ass Librarians Needed - The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

NOT one of the Top 10 romances of the year. Not even Christina Lauren’s best romance this year. - Roomies by Christina Lauren

What would you do if you knew your mother was a murderer? Get all murdery? - The Murderer's Son (DI Jackman and DS Evans #1) by Joy Ellis

Keeping up with Camelot - Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss by RoseMarie Terenzio

Graphic Novel and a Double Cannonball! - Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book One by Ta-Nehisi Coates

One last book for the year! - Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

A meh review for what’s probably a stellar book - Kulti by Mariana Zapata

We Are Family - It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree by A. J. Jacobs

The River Why - The River Why by David James Duncan

Habibi - Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye

Epic: The Story God Is Telling and the Role That Is Yours to Play - Epic: The Story God Is Telling and the Role That Is Yours to Play by John Eldredge

Rook - Rook by Sharon Cameron

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner

Stories from her life - We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

Murder from the perspective of a fetus - Nutshell by Ian McEwan

Something to read with all the lights on - The Devil You Know by Trish Doller

Mindless fun - Rivers of London/Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

What if she doesn’t want to remember? - Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer

Advice for the eloquent - How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilevsky

This might be too smart for me. - The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard

Where is this series going? I’m not sure I like it . . . - Sex Criminals, Vol. 4: Fourgy! by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky

Things I’m Seeing Without You - Things I'm Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni

Or, How Not to Climb A Mountain - The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman

Walk right into a different world - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanen McGuire

Who knew buying a small town on eBay would lead to finding your purpose in life - Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins

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