How I Found a Manic Pixie Dream Boy in a YA Novel - The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane
Vignettes of inequity - After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace by AJ Langguth
Fifty Shades of Blisters - My Year of Running Dangerously by Tom Foreman
Manic Pixie Dream World - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Vampire hunter in the city - Recombinant by Shannon Mayer
An unique mystery - The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Three murderous sisters - Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
A Superhero Thriller that Doesn’t Take Itself too Seriously - The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
On the bright side, no old people means they don’t have to read think pieces in The Atlantic about their generation ruining the world - The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
A beautifully written book that was a bit over my head - The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
Population Control 101: China - One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong
The end of the Sequence - Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
Not what I was looking for - Friendly Fire by Marliss Melton
Smugness in print form - Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be by Joel McHale
Werewolves are a tad possessive - A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
Less moaning about your looks, more sorting out your country, young Queen - The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
The one where Rachel goes on an ill-advised banshee hunt - White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison
Move over Sherlock Holmes - The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Going Nova - Nova by Margaret Fortune
Engrossing But Not A Favorite - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Beware the dark witch clique - Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
And so, lesbian Macbeth. - As I Descended by Robin Talley
You get a duke! And you get a duke! Everybody gets a duke! - Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare
The witches deserved a better story - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
This book left me at a loss for words. - The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
A Solid Path in the First Half but Like Slogging Through a Swamp in the Second - The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Indescribably mediocre YA steampunk. - Leviathan (Leviathan, #1) by Scott Westerfeld
Potential, buried under a few layers of meh - Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
Forward but in Reverse - The Lazarus Gate by Mark Latham
Sadly, another dud towards the end of the year - The One in My Heart by Sherry Thomas
Julia Quinn goes Georgian - Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Kirkus thought this book was better than The Hating Game. Kirkus is very wrong - Wild at Whiskey Creek by Julie Anne Long
Worth reading for the Chris Farley antics alone - Almost Interesting by David Spade
Charlies’ Angels with Sherlock Holmes at Phantom of the Opera - Angels of Music by Kim Newman
Another ‘gifted teenage misfit destined to save the world’ story, but with a few original bits - Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
The Most Non-fictional Fiction - The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Utterly forgettable. Read Courtney Milan’s Unraveled instead - Managed by Kristen Callihan
D.H. Lawrence and Freud got together on this, I swear. - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
In which I write meandering reviews for forgettable books, in a desperate bid for the double cannonball - Rock Addiction, Rock Courtship (Rock Kiss #1, 1.5) by Nalini Singh
Spy thriller-romance from a Texan politician - A Perfect Match by Susan Combs
A Classic Christmas Tale - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
How to Account for A Life? - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Will the Real Ron Swanson Please Stand Up? - Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
A Wrinkle in Character Development - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
I Don’t Remember Much About It - The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Atwood’s writing is the elegance of despair - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Low on the Lumberjane Scale - Lumberjanes Vol. 5: Band Together by Shannon Watters (Author), Noelle Stevenson (Author), Grace Ellis (Author), Brooke Allen (Illustrator)
Dr Who Meets The Rook with Game of Thrones-level Dysfunction - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Christmas vacation=catch up on reviews. - Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
You’ll Be Accepting My Apology For Sucking At Life and Not Posting - Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton