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4 Star Reviews

All’s Fair in Love and Dragonfire. - Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

You can dance, Chickie Baby! - Dance by Matthew Van Fleet

Origin Story of an Icon - Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era by Eiji Yoshikawa

Another great book by Liane Moriarty - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

The Good, the Bad, and the Lumberjane - Lumberjanes: Sink or Swim (vol 6) by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carey Pietsch (ills.)

What comes first: the movie or the book? - Hidden FIgures by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Tempest meets Blade Runner and also not. - The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer

Another Book That Won’t Be on President Trump’s Nightstand (But Should Be!) - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

A Romping Fowl Time - Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

More Than Just Peggy Bundy - Grace Notes: My Recollections by Katey Sagal

“We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.” - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (full cast audio)

My First Le Carre - Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels Book 1) by John Le Carre

“I would really like to know”, he said with genuine curiosity. “The next time I kill someone, I’d like to do it in a way that doesn’t freak you out.” - Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews

A historical romance with lies, angst, an opportunistic heroine and a hero with amnesia - A Lady's Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran

Having finally turned her attention to Helga Crane, Fortune now seemed determined to smile - Quicksand by Nella Larsen

I am the only person on the place who is willing to underwrite, with something more than tolerance, the presence of the peafowl. - Mysteries and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor

A YA retelling of You’ve Got Mail that’s much better than the film, in my opinion - Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

“Hello,” it said. - The Unseen World by Liz Moore

In which I show once again that I’m probably better suited to popular fiction - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Romance among resistance - An Extraordinary Union (Loyal League #1) by Alyssa Cole

Part 2 of the MaddAddam trilogy – much better than part 1! - The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 2) by Margaret Atwood

A classic that deserves the honor - Middlemarch by George Eliot

Was it the husband? - The Dry by Jane Harper

Veronica Mars + Lois Lane = Bliss. - Fallout by Gwenda Bond

Diamonds Can be Deadly - What Darkness Brings by C.S. Harris

A Suitcase Full of Rainbow Clothes - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Where I spend all of my time yelling at fictional characters - Forest Mage by Robin Hobb

“Never love a wild thing…If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.” - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

He couldn’t help himself - Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson

I breathed hard, feeling like I was underwater looking at her. - Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

How do you double a Yugo’s value? Put gas in the tank. - The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History by Jason vuic

Her face was white and strained, but whether from fear or anger, it was hard to tell. - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Yer the Chosen One Harry - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling Performed by Jim Dale

“High heels on the mossy path. Tippity-tap. Toddle on.” - The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary Mantel

The Smartest Man in Britain, still Blind to His Own Blind Spots - Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

In a way this novel has the same plot as Secret of My Success - King Queen Knave by Vladimir Nabokov

“Do you consider me morally reprehensible for inadvertently selling my wife to the Devil?” - The Gentleman by Forrest Leo

Hard Topic Done Right - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

A lovely, heartwarming story about first loves. And an amazing opening sentence about peeing mermaids. - The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

At least I got more Lying Cat in this one - Saga, vol 7 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

I’m not crying, you’re crying. - Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve

Ocean of Testosterone - Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams

A Baker’s Dozen - Nabokov's Dozen (Spring in Fialta and Other Stories) by Vladimir Nabokov

The Maiden in the Moat - When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris

Western Weird and Wild - Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier by Emily Lavin Leverett, Misty Massey, & Margaret S. McGraw

I want to know what it feels like to have crushes that could conceivably maybe one day turn into boyfriends - The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Another Spooky Adventure From the Talented Mr. Ripley - Borgin Keep by Ron Ripley

“You remind me of everything that followed.” - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

“…never forget that beneath all the appalling behavior there was a human being.” - Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction by Elizabeth Vargas

Reading YA frequently makes me very happy I never have to revisit my teenage years - Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

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