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4 Star Reviews

An Odd Delight - Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

To Have and Have Not - Black Money by Ross Macdonald

A revenge plot that thankfully goes completely wrong - Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean

Fast paced fantasy with a great premise - Shades of Magic series (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light) by V.E. Schwab

An excellent bridging story between a finished trilogy and a series to come - Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

On a scale from 1-5 this is solidly Prachetty. - Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchet

Expectations Mostly Met - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Terry Pratchett Roundup! - Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

“Sci-fi about language”: a heady entry in a favorite subgenre - Embassytown by China Miéville

100% True to the Spirit of the Show - Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham

Inglorious Bastards - The Eighth Dwarf by Ross Thomas

Books I Want to Talk About with my Friend, the Classics Professor - Circe & The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Simply charming - The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Like A Blonde Satan - The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

No Danger of a Simple Story - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Don’t let the cover mislead you. There are no grizzlies on the Appalachian Trail. - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves. - A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement; A Question of Upbringing; A Buyer's Market; The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell

Living in Steinbeck’s World - Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, & Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

Book Roundup - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Cold Case - Walking The Perfect Square by Reed Farrel Coleman

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s part of the risk.” - To All the Boys I've Loved Before, PS I Still Love You, Always and Forever Lara Jean by Jenny Han

I Did It - Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

So Perfectly Harriet - Harriet the Spy; The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh

Why are we born, if not to help each other? - Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

“I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.” - Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

But loneliness has a compass of its own - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Mystery and Racism - Fear of the Dark by Gar Anthony Haywood

“I finally understood what my birth parents did not: my adoption was hard, and complicated, but it was not a tragedy. It was not my fault, and it wasn’t theirs, either. It was the easiest way to solve just one of too many problems.” - All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

Brutally Honest - Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

More than the monsters get undressed - A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters by Sam Sax

Girl, Ghost Best Friend, and Cranky Cat Head to Edinburgh - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

“He who knows he has enough is rich.” - Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu

It’s only insufferable to start - The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

I want Olivia Gatwood as my new best friend - New American Best Friend by Olivia Gatwood

Have a tissue and a smile ready for this gem - Mr. Hollyberry’s Christmas Gift by Kate Westerlund

A 2,100 year old Druid and his talking dog Oberon do some magic and stuff. - Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1) by Kevin Hearne

Lately my diet has become a trifle monotonous - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

More secrets from the Creekwood gang - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

All the things that make you different make you perfect. - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

A Fusion of Noir and Hardboiled - Beware Beware by Steph Cha

Falling in Love with Love, Simon - Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

A Good Road Trip Love Story - The Escape (The Survivors' Club #3) by Mary Balogh

Still relevant - The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild and Anne Machung

Well worth the re-read - World's End (Age of Misrule, Book 1) by Mark Chadbourn

It’s complicated; romance, family, politics, whether one is dead or not, all of it is complicated - The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

“One never knows when one is behaving like a creep; probably even that astronaut lady who drove for two days to beat up her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend didn’t think twice when she bought those adult diapers. It just felt right.” - Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs by Dave Holmes

Luvvie, I feel you so hard - I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi

You really should read this one! - Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

“You can’t just go around hurting and killing people like that.” “Why not?” asks Tupra. - Your Face Tomorrow vol 2 and vol 3 by Javier Marias

Bee biology re-imagined through the language of human dystopia - The Bees by Laline Paull

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