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3 Star Reviews

Retribution Falls: unlikable characters, very likable banter - Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding

I am a little vexed by this book - The Mother of all Questions by Rebecca Solnit

I’ll go. - Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

This Might Look Familiar… - Back Story by David Mitchell

“Space Around Me Where My Soul Can Breath” - The Introvert Advanatage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney

It’s not Da Da, but it’s not not Da Da - Vaclav Havel by The Memorandum

Now I’ve Got One Direction’s “End of the Day” Stuck in My Head… - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low…Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know - Checkmate (Insanity Book 6) by Cameron Jace

Speaking of mindless entertainment! - Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries (Bridget Jones #4) by Helen Fielding

Ann Patchett by way of Jennifer Egan - Mister Monkey by Francine Prose

A fantasy classic where the hero refers to monsters as “those guys” - The First Chronicles of Amber (#1-5) by Roger Zelazny

Great Expectations - Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

A Better Way to Get My Philosophy Fix - Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide by Frederic Lenoir

I am an incurable, and nothing else behaves like me - 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” - The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Dragonopolis Sounds like Every Fantasy Nerd’s Idea of Heaven - Voices of Dragons and Refuge of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn

Ice sculpting with a chainsaw, world-class desserts and special ops soldiers with a book club - Trust Me by Laura Florand

Trust Me, It’s Pretty Mediocre - Trust Me by Laura Florand

I didn’t hate it. - Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen

Don’t go there! - The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro

Daughters & Mothers & Grandmothers – Oh My! - Relative Disenchantment by Patricia Shinn Wojtowicz & Christine Petersen Streed

“I’m not writing it to explain some of the painful situations I’ve either landed in or thrown myself into. I’m writing it because I was paid to write it.” - Nevertheless: A Memoir by Alec Baldwin

Deadly Chemistry - The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

So. Many. Straw. (Wo)men. - Why I Am Not A Feminist by Jessa Crispin

The Trickster God Isn’t So Funny After All - Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman

Mary Roach is a never ending delight, but this was not my book. - Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

Confusing Isn’t Always Better - The Drafter (Peri Reed Chronicles Book 1 by Kim Harrison

“She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books.” - The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman

And call Alice, when she was just small…when the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go - Wonder (Insanity Book 5) by Cameron Jace

Yeah, I Know About the Apocalypse: I Watched at Least 5 Seasons of Supernatural… - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

What We Become is Old - What We Become by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Intellectually interesting, not so much enjoyable for me. - The Devourers by Indra Das

Mmm Hmm - Aha: The Moments of Insight That Shape Our World by William B. Irvine

Strangers in the Night - Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase

Suddenly I’m that lady who talks about mystic aliens and stuff on subway. - Childhood's end by Arthur C. Clarke

The Kind of Stuff They Don’t Teach You About At Church - The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South by Patrick Q. Mason

Does a unique premise outweigh a flat story? - Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Colthurst

Too much dry travel writing, not enough DRAGONS for my taste - A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan

Where No Star Trek Fan May Have Gone Before … - Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Vol. 2 by Dean Mullaney, Editor

Aschenbach did not care for pleasure. - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Another lukewarm Sherlock Holmes adventure - The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, narrated by Stephen Fry

Next time, more history less theory, please - Blackout, All Clear by Connie Willis

My least favourite book of the entire series - A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

I’m not fat, I’m a bigger breed. - I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano

He’d spent time rehearsing this serene pose - Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe

Too much time messing around with the circus - The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan

Not Enough Industrial Magic - Brother's Ruin by Emma Newman

Another tale of woe about a girl. . . - The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney ( Tony Strong )

A Western that didn’t grab me in the saddle. - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

A novel, if predictable science-fiction adventure - The Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

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Recent Comments

  • carmelpie
    on Magic, Heists, Revenge
    This sounds so, so good. Looking forward to reading it when it comes out.
  • Mary Benedict
    on Maybe not all things need to be published
    It was wrong to publish that stuff regardless. I seriously doubt it was with AR's consent and if it was,...
  • esmemoria
    on Painfully Unfunny
    You got that right!
  • BlackRaven
    on Painfully Unfunny
    Sounds like this book was 167 pages too long
  • BlackRaven
    on The Joke’s On You
    Sounds like The Stench was all the title needed
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