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3 Star Reviews

Ladies and Phalluses and Killers and Artists - A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

Shakespearean satire. Not my favorite, but not Moore’s fault – he rules. - Fool by Christopher Moore

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

“Hauntingly Intelligent” is a Bit Lofty Here - Valentina by S. E. Lynes

If you enjoy the C.S. Harris books, this one might be for you - Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose

This review is very late. - Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

Hillbillies Among Us - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

Looking for a real Debbie Downer? Look no further. - Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum

So Many Batmans - Batman Beyond: Hush Beyond by Adam Beechen

This is what happens when a boob man writes a mystery novel - After the Crash by Michael Bussi

Fab Babs Becomes Batgirl - Batgirl: Year One by Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon

Teen Angst - Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

Not Bad, But Not For Me - The Anxiety Toolkit by Alice Boyes, PhD

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again - Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt

Not Necessarily Neo-Noir - On the Street Where You Die (Stanley Bentworth Mysteries Book 1) by Al Stevens

Actually it’s about ethics in product design - Hooked: how to Build Habit forming products by Nir Eyal

Nope, not for me. - Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Needs more rockets, metaphorically and literally - Remedial Rocket Science by Susannah Nix

This had so much potential… - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Better Than the Last One - Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic by Jennifer L. Scott

A Miscellaneous selection of books - Goodbye Vitamin, Krik? Krak!, Home Fire by Rachel Khong, Edwidge Danticat, Kamila Shamsie

Splash down with Ninteenth Century Evil Science - The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

Maybe it’s not that I hate the romance genre, maybe it’s that I have a low tolerance for predictability - One Day by David Nichols

What if the reason your ex is an ex is stupid? - The One That Got Away by Melissa Pimentel

Spiders…Why did it have to be spiders? - The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

The first one’s always free - The Way of Shadows: The Night Angel Trilogy - Vol. 1 by Brent Weeks

Well, this is definitely a 1970s fantasy novel. - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

Great Harley and Ivy Stories, Non-Bus Friendly Art - Harley and Ivy: The Deluxe Edition by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm

The Children of Nothing and Night - Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour

There’s a Lot Going on Here. - The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Amy Tan’s nonfiction - The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

An acclaimed Arthur Miller play with mixed results - The Crucible by Arthur Miller

A family drama that left me a little cold - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Lizzie Borden took an axe… - See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

Just some nice books. - I Feel Bad About my Neck and A Man Called Ove by Nora Ephron and Fredrik Backman

A kind of boring but well-balanced history of Coal - Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese

Han Solo Han Soloing About - Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo Adventure (Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: the Force Awakens) by Greg Rucka, Phil Noto

Long lost love returns - The Pleasures of Passion by Sabrina Jeffries

“Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.” - Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Widows, Rakes, and Gobs of Cash - Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas

“I guess sometimes you have to take chances- send a shuttle out as far as you can, even if it means you might find out that Pluto isn’t a planet. Maybe you’ll find something else great…” - 100 Days of Cake by Shari Goldhagen

More Murder Squad - Broken Harbor by Tana French

Not Northern Exposure, Exactly - If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende

A different sort of fantasy – I wanted to like it more than I did - The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

Gonna Leave This in The Desert - The Gunslinger by Stephen King

That was…Fine - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Knowledge of Good and Evil is Removable - Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

Satisfying Conclusion to a Comfort Read - A Little Knowledge and All Good Things by Emma Newman

Why with the ridiculous female protagonist? WHY? - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Unfiltered. Unsupervised. Unapologetic. - Stories I'd Tell in Bars: yeah, bro, another memoir by Jen Lancaster

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