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3 Star Reviews

Home Is Where You Make It - The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela

Abstract reading - Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick

Endless Halloween Not-So-Much-Fun - The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink

“In the clear and steady gleam of electric lights, superstition turns to foolishness; in the crucible of the combustion engine, false beliefs are burned away.” (Bingos #9 & 10) - Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite by Zoraida Cordova & Natalie Parker (editors)

Why is it impossible to be both kind and smart for the lead character?! - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom! (light novel volume 7) by Satorou Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

Only mildly witchin’ - The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston

The tail wagging the dog - Hoax by Brian Stelter

An Affair you won’t remember - The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now. - Lore by Alexandra Bracken

Where the Lemon-Trees Blossom - Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy

There Wil Be Blood. There Will Also Be Wedding Cake. - When Sorrows Came by Seanan McGuire

An okay romance. - The Dating Playbook (The Boyfriend Project, #2) by Farrah Rochon

Hiding In Sight - The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda

A boring introduction to a series with a lot of potential - Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce

I miss going on vacations - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Brave New World. Meh. - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A fun novella, but a bit lacking in the romance development - Hot as Hades by Alisha Rai

When “Crank it up” doesn’t mean the music - Crank by Ellen Hopkins

In case you were wondering, Christopher Marlowe is a little shit, according to this author. - Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) by Deborah Harkness

Hell’s Angels – Hunter S Thompson (1966) - Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson

More Bertie, Please - Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith

Cool cover, meh book - Luminous by Mara Rutherford

A good young adult book that I probably read too late in life. - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

The Black Lizard Book of Pulps – Otto Penzler (2007) - The Black Lizard Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler; The Third Murderer by Carroll John Daly

Not a Whimsical Portal Fantasy, But a Corporate Retail Portal Fantasy - Finna by Nino Cipri

Who Wears the Black Hat could be a Good Mystery to Solve - Jack Flash and the Faerie Case Files, volume 3 by Yu Godai, Mako Oikawa, Kore Yamazaki

I was pretty excited for this one but ultimately felt like it fell a bit flat - My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa

Two 3* sci-fi novels - I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim, Sophie Bowman (Translator), Sung Ryu (Translator); The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Is there any genre that Moreno-Garcia can’t tackle? - Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A large set of 3* romances as I try and catch up on reviews - Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle; It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey; One Thing Leads to a Lover by Susanna Craig; Isn't it Bromantic by Lyssa Kay Adams; One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid; Catch a Falling Duke by Eve Pendle; Battle Royale by Lucy Parker; A Duke in Disguise by Cat Sebastian; A Lot Like Adios by Alexis Daria; Bringing Down the Duke: The Wedding Story by Evie Dunmore

A recommendation that was a good change of pace - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Scars have stories - These Precious Scars by Emily Suvada

Poltergeist, circa 1930 - The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale

Sexless and the City - The Gutter and the Grave by Ed McBain

“You’re like somebody waiting very patiently and one day – you’ll do something.” - Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith

You don’t need a little orange book to be prepared for this book - Worst-Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara

Sequel as good as the first if not better - Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?! (A Graphic Novel) by Sophie Escabasse

Meaning of Treasure - Treasure in the Lake by Jason Pamment

Love, exciting and new - The Loud House Special: Love Out Loud by Loud House Creative Team; Love is for Roaring by Mike Kerr

A brother and sister made of wood - The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld

Living that Summer Dream - Summer Spirit by Elizabeth Holleville

Expectations and Reality clash and have a lovely time - Princess Princess Ever After by Kay O’Neill

Wicked good time - Mellybean and the Wicked Wizard by Mike White

The Sparrows are Flying Again - The Dark Half by Stephen King

Little Sister has punch - Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters volume 1 by Chris Samnee

Mirror Mirror on the Wall I’ve Become My Mother Afterall - I Am Not Starfire by Mariko Tamaki

Siblings to die for - The Blood Between Us by Z Brewer

Romeo and Juliet tackle social issues - The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera

Things could probably be okay if it wasn’t for that meddling, dead, Abuela - Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

So mom went to the US to study, and all I got was a year of coming-of-age - A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova

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