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4 Star Reviews

Don’t be a dictator - Animal Farm by George Orwell

Teenage Angst in the Future - The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

A Sweet, Clean Romance - The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sheri Cobb South

Mysteries According to Humphrey: A hamster - Mysteries According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

One little Mix up….or was it? - Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chun

Honestly, Anything with Ice in the Title Is Appealing Right Now - Bradt Guide: Iceland by Andrew Evans

A golden cage is still a cage. - Circe by Madeline Miller

The Great Escape - Inky’s Great Escape: The Incredible (and Mostly True) Story of an Octopus Escape by Casey Lyall

Sanderson is getting Martinitis with the Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

I Should Have Known I’d Like It Just From the Title - Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Small Village Shenanigans - Bricks and Mortality by Ann Granger

“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.” - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

The title leads you to believe it’s about the virals, but it’s really about the humans - The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

Can a book be boring AND fascinating? - The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro

You Know the Brothers Grimm now meet the Brothers Fan - Ocean Meets Sky by The Fan Brothers =

An Entertaining Setting Straight of Facts with Some Sobering Themes - The Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke

No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross - Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley

This is the Wonder Woman I Wanted - Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Her Bluntness Made Me Laugh and Cringe in Equal Measure - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

An easy suspense read - Streetwise by Roberta Kray

A lively book about death - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Young blood - Provenance by Ann Leckie

Checks All the Boxes and Does It Well - This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

Listen to the Farkakte Bird, Bubula. He Has a Story to Tell - Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin

Narnia: A trip back to childhood - Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

“Fruits which that unknown orchard bore; She suck’d until her lips were sore; Then flung the emptied rinds away, But gather’d up one kernel stone, And knew not was it night or day” - Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire

This was no time to cry over one broken heart. - A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell

Lady Bond Hunts Spy Ghosts and Discovers Cthulu May be Real - Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

A Summer Bromance - Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer

Do Any Women Not Have a Story They Could Contribute? - Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Just Lovely - My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 by Gengoroh Tagame

Mooom! There’s a bear in my bed…… - The Bear in My Bed by Joyce Wan

“But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.” - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

“This is How We Reveal Ourselves […] the Reactions We Can’t Hide” - Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

.. the good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it. - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

If you invented modern fame from scratch, now, and told people what it would consist of, they would think you were crackers. - How To Be Famous by Caitlin Moran

I told you once, I told you twice, all seasons of the year are nice for eating chicken soup with rice! - Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak

“Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.” - The Proposal (The Survivors' Club #1) by Mary Balogh

An April Fool’s Joke come true - Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

You’ll Never Think about Eggplant the Same Way Again - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

A Return to Form - A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Between the Hate and the Love - Honour by Elif Shafak

I realised how much more he cared for me than I had supposed or he had ever shown. - Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar? - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

There is literally no place in American history that’ll be awesome for me. - Kindred by Octavia Butler

A Small Blue Whale finds a Friend or two or three…. - A Small Blue Whale by Betty Ferry

In which a favorite from my childhood stands up to an adult re-read. - The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey

How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? - How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? by Jane Yolen

Find Yourself in Architecture and other places! - Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture by Joshua David Stien

Have a Night In with Night Out - Night Out by Daniel Miyares

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