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3 Star Reviews

The Evil and the Mask - The Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura

“Nature is chaos, magic is order, but they are not wholly unrelated.” - The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

A placeholder of an Inspector Gamache novel - A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

The Forest - The Forest by Lisa Quigley

Sort of sexy, not really addictive - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Not sure if it sparked joy, but it did provide me with some handy tips - Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Interesting plot rather let down by stock characters - Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts

My interest in this series has waxed and waned pretty quickly - Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas; Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? - Landslide by Susan Conley

“She was stuck sitting in a wingback chair, her phone as dead as a brick in her hand, and listening to Orchid pepper the townie with questions about how bad the storm had gotten.” - In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund

My dad isn’t a vampire but my mom was (almost) a lumberjack - Lumberjackula by Mat Heagerty

By the Pricking of My Thumbs and Postern of Fate and Seven Dials Mystery - By the Pricking of my Thumbs by Agatha Christie; Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie; The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie

All Over The Place - Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution by Zillah Eisenstein

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A book about nothing - Zero Zebras: A Counting Book about What’s Not There by Bruce Goldstone

I have an unusual name, too. However,… - Thao: A Picture Book by Thao Lam

Bitter sweet goodbyes - The Sour Cherry Tree by Naseem Hrab

Sometimes I Grumblesquinch too - Sometimes I Grumblesquinch by Rachel Vail

Popsicles that are out of this world - Moon Pops by Heena Baek

If you want to keep on swimmin’ you’ll need to take care of the planet first - To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat

A nightmare before a 1950s Irish Christmas - Snow by John Banville

If Jane was vain, and Rochester was…sort of the same - Dragonwyck (1945) by Anya Seton

Should I Give in to the Chocolate Hummus? - Vegan in an Instant by Marina Delio

Queer Found Family with a Human Murderbot on a Three Fish Ship in Space - You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo

Notes to Self - Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

It might as well have been a squirrel telling me the story - Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore

The Fervor - The Fervor by Alma Katsu

Three’s Company. Four’s Trouble. It’s All…Messy. - Wahala by Nikki May

Forever Peace - Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

The Secrets of Summer House - The Secrets of Summer House by Rachel Burton

Farewell to the Scoobies - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 12 by Christos Gage, et al.

Everything is Illuminated - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Structure over substance - Long Division by Kiese Laymon

There really were too many bare behinds in this - A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

“Evil isn’t a person,” he said. “It’s not a political group either. Or a religion like some people think. Evil is a force. Like gravity. It acts on all of us. We’re all vulnerable to it.” - What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

Meh Valentine’s Reading - A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

A break from the norm, but everything is too rushed - The Magicians: New Class by Lilah Sturges

0 - Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

“I never stopped trying to save you, so don’t you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself.” - A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables #1) by Alix E. Harrow

Competent, Readable Science Fiction - Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

A little disappointing… - It's Not Me, It's You by Mhairi McFarlane

I guess you could say it left me… Cold? - Cold by Mariko Tamaki

“My fertile years are waning, my chance at love has passed, my cat is my greatest asset” - The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen

This wasn’t for me so not sure how to grade it - Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

Because I found two new books, I’m writing a three book review - Paper Planes by Jim Helmore; In a Jar by Deborah Marcero; Out of a Jar by Deborah Marcero

“Fighting a one-man war against the twentieth century:” Jane Ridley’s Attempt to Make George V Interesting - George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley

“No one had ever held my hand before. Somehow people in Texoma always needed their hands free. I found it a little hot, a little sweaty, and since we were yoked we had to match our pace. But it made me feel good.” - A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose #2) by Charlaine Harris

Foley Double Feature – Two books for the plot of one! - The Guest List by Lucy Foley; The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

A feminist view on linguistics - Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

With the One Fox Band - Paul and His Ukulele by Robert Broder

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