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4 Star Reviews

I think he liked to dance - Willi Ninja: Vogue Legend by Joy Michael Ellison

Native artists give insight - Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

This book is like reading an entertaining action movie - The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold by Ally Carter

If Jane Austen had taught Naomi Moreno anything, it was to watch out for the George Wickhams of the World. - The Wedding Con by Janine Amesta

The woods will trick you. - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

“Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.” - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

A Good Sequel With a Great Cliffhanger - The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima

Romance Focused on Overcoming Fear - The Wedding Con by Janine Amesta

hot take yes this is an info dump but also I will mainline more cosmere - Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson

Sad books that help make it better - The Fabric of Us by Aditi Anand; Where Are You, Eddie? A Companion to Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen and Gill Smith

A More Complete Version of Huck Finn - James by Percival Everett

“Time remembered does not flow smoothly at all” - The Truants by Kate Weinberg

There was joy for having arrived, and sorrow for having left, and no way to even pretend this was home. - The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

A TV Tie-in that Works - The Rise of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee; The Shadow of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee

“I am proud to be part machine.” - Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

Scary Librarian - The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hogdson

Family: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

A king, a princess, the masters of wizardry, and a dragon walk into a grove - The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Did a chick? Dud a chum? - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

Shifters, fairies, bake offs, oh myyyy - The Alpha and the Baker by Roxie Ray

This sounds like something I would say, and I’m slightly concerned that the person I relate to most at this table is the one who added protein powder to his wine - Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun

Framed in Death by J.D. Robb - Framed in Death by J.D. Robb

”He still doesn’t know who he’s most scared of: the hooligans with tattoos or the hooligans with ties and suits.” - Us Against You: A Novel by Fredrik Backman

“I was fifteen when I decided to go to America and make a name for myself,” Allen Say - The Inker's Shadow by Allen Say

She ain’t no Pretty Pink Pretty princess - Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

1 review plus 3 books equals one awesome series - Gina and the Last City on Earth (Hilo #9) by Judd Winick; Rise of the Cat (Hilo #10) by Judd Winick; The Great Space Iguana (Hilo #11) by Judd Winick

When your duet partner chirps - Beatrice and the Nightingale by Patricia Newman and Isabelle Follath

A Monster-Hunting Take on the KKK - Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

“Did you see stars?” “The whole Milky Way.” - Right Next Door by Sophie Andrews

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman - Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

You are all Dead Spirits - Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix; Craig Cormick

Who has the right to history? - The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint - Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

“She writes that she will walk across the ocean to be with her lover. He sees this, not as a declaration of love, but as a statement of a single-mindedness so total that a kind of grandeur creeps into it.” - In Pursuit of Love: A Journey in the Footsteps of Obsession by Mark Bostridge

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor - Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Wherever You Go, There You Are - The Killer Question by Janice Hallett; Kiss Her Goodbye by Lisa Gardner

Putting the Ire in Ireland - The Drowned by John Banville

“I know you’re tough. But also, you don’t have to be that way with me if you don’t want to.” - Love at First Flight by Janine Amesta

The Past Is a Different Country - The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris; American Monsters by Adam Jortner

A cautionary tale for us all - The Lion Women of Tehran: A Novel by Marjan Kamali

Crime podcasts, grandmas and small town Texas - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

“If you think you didn’t save me too, you couldn’t be more wrong.” - Where You're Planted by Melanie Sweeney

Baby Blue your friends got you - Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson

The girl you really are - The October Girl Volume One by Matthew Dow Smith

“Saul of my pody, put you are wrang there my friend. It is your fat Englishmen that eat up our Scots cattle, puir things.” Got that? - Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott

A Slow Start to a Series but a Compelling One - The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima

“So, you finally decided to come over to the cool side of the Kinsey scale. Welcome. We have flags and the best agenda ever.” - The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee

What Strangers Can Teach Us About Ourselves - The Wedding People by Alison Espach

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same - The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

“Living my life to disappoint my father had been something to aspire to.” - The Innocent Sleep (October Daye #18) by Seanan McGuire

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