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4 Star Reviews

Come to my Cocktail/Garden Party y’all! - The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks by Amy Stewart

Who would want to be the chosen one anyway? - The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

A brief grown up book before I post 3 more YA reviews - Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

Consumerism and total social decay: contained in an apartment. - High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

A fine new Erdrich novel - LaRose by Louise Erdrich

I’M ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE - Written in Red (The Others, #1) by Anne Bishop

When Graphic Novels Meet Modern History - The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule by Igort

Manipulative, devilish heroine the kind you love to hate - Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now - Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Unlikeable Characters Make for a Very Good Novel - The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester

Who Needs Who More: God or Man? - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

GFY Sizzle - Crossroads (Book 1) by Riley Hart

A nice contemporary romance without too much angst - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis

“There’s always a person for every book. And a book for every person.” - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

We’re Nigerians. Just Nigerians. And one Ghanaian. - Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

I always feel like a chump for having zero magical powers when clearly the world is full of magicians and superpowered beings! - The Everything Box: A Novel by Richard Kadrey

Challenging Stereotypes: The Crossover - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

“You’re the one who doesn’t understand, I’ve been standing on the edge with you for years.” - The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

Gotta watch out for that lizard brain - Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

We’re All Gonna Die, Because it has Been Foreseen and There is No Hope - The Immortal Heights by Sherry Thomas

In command where you belong - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

There’s nothing like summer in the city, someone under stress meets someone looking pretty - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Though virtue is not a word I’d apply to this situation - In the Woods by Tana French

Honeycombed by Grifters at City Hall down to the Flatfeet on the Beat - Prescription: Murder! Volume 1: Authentic Cases From The Files of Alan Hynd by Alan Hynd

Magical Babysitter-Check, Clueless Parent-Check, Crazy Adventures-Check - Mr. Pudgins by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen

Hades Hath No Fury - The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell

Naval Battles in Spaaaaaace! - On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

The Man Who Fixed the World Series - Rothstein by David Pietrusza

Just Another One Martin’s Procrastination Projects - The World of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, Elio M.Garcia Jr. & Linda Antonsson

If Charlotte Bronte and Al Swearengen Had a Child, It Might Be This Jane - Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye

Dragons with feathers! - Crucible of Gold (Temeraire, Book 7) by Naomi Novik

Temeraire Down Under - Tongues of Serpents: A Novel of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

But how does a dragon feel about going into battle? - Victory of Eagles (Temeraire #5) by Naomi Novik

The hunt for penicillin, and the kidnapping of Laurence - Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, Book 4) by Naomi Novik

Tell me what you read, and I’ll tell you who you are - The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Better Romance Choice – Book Club Edition - Venetia by Georgette Heyer

Magic Times in the Cajun Swamp - Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews

A bearded romance - Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid

Sometimes books don’t find us until the right time. - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

You Mean Sharon Carter is Actually an Awesome Agent and Not Just a Forced Romance?? - Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection by Ed Brubaker

A Historical Romance Set in the Recognizable 1840s! Thank Godtopus! - Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers #1) by Lisa Kleypas

Appalachian Fantasy - On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

Big Brother is Watching - The Queue: A Novel by Basma Abdel Aziz

Like studying history; Mostly fun but a little boring. - The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Ranger will always be my book boyfriend - Explosive Eighteen, Notorious Nineteen, Takedown Twenty, & Top Secret Twenty One by Janet Evanovich

a hero is an ordinary human being who does “the best of things in the worst of times.” - The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson

Damn you, Uncle Stevie. I’m not ready for these books to end. - End of Watch by Stephen King

“She would be invisible, of course. No one would hear her. And nothing has happened, really, that hasn’t happened before.” - Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

No young woman wants to get married after reading Tolstoy - Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas

Having a Good Time in Metropolis - Double Down by Gwenda Bond

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