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3 Star Reviews

Paternoster Qui Est inFinitum - Beyond Infinity by Eugenia Cheng

With great power comes great responsibility - A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

A Personal Portrayal of a Childhood and Coming-of-Age that Stumbles in the Final Act - We the Animals by Justin Torres

I liked this a lot better than her last book, but Jasmine Guillory and I might be about to part ways. - Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5) by Jasmine Guillory

“Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation – the crime being a lack of means to survive.” - Maid by Stephanie Land

This was . . . weird. - Little Face (Spilling CID, #1) by Sophie Hannah

It makes sense that my US History teacher would love this book so much - The Eight by Katherine Neville

I was prepared to eye-roll through this entire thing– I couldn’t put it down though - Tarot Academy 1: Spells of Iron and Bone by Sarah Piper

…one unalarmed emergency door away from disappearing forever. - Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Hollywood intrigue, flipping houses, graphic novels, and romance! - Tribute by Nora Roberts

“My Happily Ever After was a strand of strung-together happy-for-nows, extending back not to just a year ago, but to thirty years before.” - Beach Read by Emily Henry

“Insidious, these false versions of superiority and ease we project onto other families: how often they blind us to the surer comforts of our own.” - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

A Genuinely Sweet F/F Hockey Romance - Out on the Ice by Kelly Farmer

A Back-and-Forth Mystery with an Interesting Buildup that Didn’t Stick the Landing - The Night Before by Wendy Walker

Where there are women, there are witches - The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

Is a cookbook that’s more about decoration still a cookbook? - Let's Bake! A Pusheen Cookbook by Claire Belton and Susanne Ng

If Start Trek Got Blah and Some Part of it Knew That - Red Shirts by John Scalzi

A satisfying heroine; not Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

A Unique Read, Above All Else. - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

A decent read somewhat spoiled by sky-high expectations - Making Friends by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Decent Novel Unfortunately Weighed Down by my Comparing It to Other, Stronger Media About the Same Subjects - The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

That Invisible Frontier - Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

Put ’em up! I fight ya with one paw behind my back! - Tiger vs. Nightmare  by Emily Tetri

Read and let me know what you think - Home Base: A Mother-Daughter Story by Nikki Tate

I wish last time I stubbed my toe the ending was a sweet - Because I Stubbed My Toe by Shawn Byous

“Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.” - Kingdom of the Blind (Inspector Gamache #14) by Louise Penny

A bit of a bummer after the high of #9. - The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) by Louise Penny

Not academic, but that’s also not really the point - The Atlas of Happiness: The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy by Helen Russell

“I guess I have been cruising his back roads my whole life. I don’t regret it’* - N0S4A2 by Joe Hill

“There must have been some kind of mistake,” I said. - The End and Other Beginnings by Veronica Roth

“You have to live each hour as if it’s your last and each day as if you were immortal.” (CBR Bingo) - The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons #2) by Julia Quinn

YMMV on this one. I bounced hard off it but other people have really seemed to like it. - Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Somewhere in the multiverse there is a universe where this series had an editor, and the me that lives there gave this book five stars. - The Raven King (All for the Game, #2) by Nora Sakavic

Guinness book of world records, record for least Miss Marple in a Miss Marple book. - The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4) by Agatha Christie

Easy Money, Raging Tempers - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind

Climate Change + Manga + Aquicorns - Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neill

Dragons and Tea and Illustrations! Oh, My! - The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill

Lumberjanes do Friendship to the Max Indoors and Out - Lumberjanes (vols. 13-14) by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Dozerdraws

Dublin Soul - The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

What would happen if women could thoroughly, completely, permanently turn the tables? - The Power by Naomi Alderman

I would have liked more background and info about the rest of the crew - The Disasters by M.K. England

soft-core misery porn - Turbulence by David Szalay

Not for me. #CBRBingo – Debut - Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

This series still not living up to its potential, for me. - One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns, #2) by Kendare Blake

Vampires Get Nervous, Too - Maury the Miserable Vampire by Jeff Roland

Toss a coin…etc - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

Weaving In and Out and Back Around - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Mystery and murder and mayhem IN SPACE - Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre

‘Geoffrey’s mum told us “If you take a hen’s egg from under her and she just looks at you and doesn’t do anything, put that egg back.” Peace and quiet is a sign that something’s wrong. Peace and quiet is like a broken response, a sign of people in pieces.’ - The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

Sadly, a rather disappointing follow-up to two very good books - Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

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