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4 Star Reviews

He sat down in a wave of applause. - The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Cornbluth

The sun summoner who became a saint, concluding the Shadow and Bone trilogy - Seige and Storm: The Shadow and Bone Trilogy book 2 by Leigh Bardugo; Ruin and Rising: The Shadow and Bone Trilogy book 3 by Leigh Bardugo

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” - The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya

Both the brothers’ hair was even whiter than the pillowcases. - On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

Prep school drama - Drowning with Others by Linda Keir

Two Great Tropes in One - A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year by Jackie Lau

Charlotte plans an art heist - The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas

Volume 27 of who knows how many Voumes of Stephan Pastis - Pearls Hogs the Road: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Volume 27 by Stephan Pastis

Return to Virgin River (Books #4 and #5) One Hits the Mark, The Other Misses it - A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr; Second Chance Pass by Robyn Carr

Quiet but Devestating - Academy Street by Mary Costello

Their Own Voices - Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha ; A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum; On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Deck the Halls - Easy Death by Daniel Boyd

Hugo has weathered her share of Hollywood scandals. - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid; The Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Just because you’re adequately good at something doesn’t mean that’s what you should do. - Severance by Ling Ma

The Bisexual Bootlegging Love Army - Beyond Series Bundle Volume 2 (Books 4 - 6) by Kit Rocha; Beyond Series Bundle Volume 3 (Books 7 - 9) by Kit Rocha; Beyond Series Novella Bundle by Kit Rocha

Two non-fiction books about death: one very serious, one much less so - Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston; Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty

Memoirs and Essays - Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman; Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino ; Baby Don't Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live by Chris Kattan; So, Anyway... by John Cleese; Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan; Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters

Are you ready for this? - Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

Dear Kelsey Wroten - Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear. - The High Window by Raymond Chandler

“I don’t know if we’re in a love story or a story about love…” - What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

It’s not about the dog - Good Boy by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

Burn, baby, burn. - Firestarter by Stephen King

My life was narrated for me by others - Educated by Tara Westover

Party in the City Where the Heat is On - Silent City by Alex Segura

Nine for the Tomb, and for all that was lost - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Basically a princess and bodyguard romance, but in Spaaace! - Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik

The Lady Sherlock Series Book 3 - The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas

When You Literally Get Sucked Into a Story - The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler

Fish and Family Stink after Three Days; After Seven They’re Toxic - Seven Days of Us by Francesca HOrnak

Happy Birthday. Your thirteenth is important. Maybe your first really public day. - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Black Friday by David Goodis

Read the illustrations - Stormy: A Story about Finding a Forever Home by Guojing; Explorers by Matthew Cordell

I thought I was keeping my work secret from her, an effort that was getting easier all the time. - Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

Deep in the Heart of Texas - Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale

The scariest book I’ve read this year. - Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman

As I’ve Said. Born Romantic. - Headliners by Lucy Parker

Detroit in its Heyday - An October to Remember, 1968: The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played It by Brendan Donley

History and adventure all in one - Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams

You know what you’re getting but stick it out anyway - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

When West Meets East, Sharpshooters and Demons - Shadow Roads (Volume One) by Cullen Bunn

A new meaning to he’s got the Midas Touch - Midas Flesh Volume 1 by Ryan North

Short stories in comic form. - The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman

Cute little novella, really liked this one. - Can't Escape Love (Reluctant Royals, #2.6) by Alyssa Cole

Great except for the bits where I wanted to put it in the freezer. - Recursion by Blake Crouch

Liked this one a lot except for one thing which is spoilery. - Hammered (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #3) by Kevin Hearne

Sex Mystery sounds like a genre I want to read much more of. - Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1) by Cat Sebastian

It’s kind of a lot (but that’s ok) - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

A murder mystery within a murder mystery, and a lovely homage to the genre. - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Finishing School Arya, the later years - Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

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