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4 Star Reviews

Past-Future Tech - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

“Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society…” - The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman

Just the Right Combination of Humor, Insight, and Death. - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Modern Retellings Like This One Make Me Happy - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Pop-Up Video of Poetry! - A Fire in My Hands by Gary Soto

Well, Somebody Did Something, Right? - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Big skies, big animals, big threats - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller

A pleasant surprise - Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Well this was definitely… different and peculiar…Vintage Photos are Awesome - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

All Choices Have Consequences, But Also Benefits - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

A Glimpse Inside The Hermit Kingdom - Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim

This book had purple font!!!! - Splintered by A.G. Howard

A task too large for even a super man. - Superman: Peace on Earth by Paul Dini and Alex Ross

A safe space for spoilers - The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4) by Maggie Stiefvater

An utterly ridiculous cover for a book that’s more about probability than rippling abs - A Gentleman Undone (Blackshear Family #2) by Cecilia Grant

Death doesn’t discriminate - The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

A satisfying end to the series. - Timeless (The Parasol Protectorate, #5) by Gail Carriger

That’ll do. - Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

Dysfunction Junction - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Bringing a little FNL back into my life is always a good thing. - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

In Conclusion, Greg van Eekhout is one to watch - Dragon Coast by Greg van Eekhout

Never get involved in a land war in Asia - Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3) by Naomi Novik

A cavalcade of finery, from existential nihilism to haunted funeral attire. - The Stranger; The Three Body Problem; The Devotion of Suspect X; Heart Shaped Box by various

The Wild Magical West - Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

A Strong Finish - The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

Is this the real life, is this just fantasy? - Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini

Bad Priestess - Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

Temeraire Meets the Far East - Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

Get Bent, Taxman - Thus was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell

Run away with us for the summer, let’s go upstate - Longbourn by Jo Baker

Perfect Summer Beach Read For Millennials - The Big Rewind by Libby Cudmore

The Last Time I Encountered Something Centred on a Male ‘Witch’ It was “The Covenant”: This is Much Better - The Half Bad Trilogy by Sally Green

Tryin’ to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable - Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund

I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal - For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

“Welcome to the trip, man…” - Orphan Black: Helsinki by Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, Heli Kennedy, & Denton J Tipton

“If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen – small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.” - Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman

Nothing can save you. Justice is lost. Justice is raped. Justice is gone. - Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Koker

“Just because you see something doesn’t mean it’s really there” - Calvin by Martine Leavitt

The sexiest of the palsies - If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny by Zach Anner

- Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

The Star Wars reading continues - So You Want to be a Jedi? by Adam Gidwitz

The plan is to fan this spark into a flame - A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2) by V.E. Schwab

Dear Pierce Brown, I love you, but sometimes I don’t like you all that much. - Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Half a Cannonball with a Full Classic - Venetia by Georgette Heyer

It’s another beautiful day at the Red Pony Bar and Continual Soiree. - Kindness Goes Unpunished and Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson

The final Parasitology book - Chimera by Mira Grant

You want a revolution, I want a revelation - Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer

Hold on to your pants! Zero World is a thrilling ride - Zero World by Jason M. Hough

Man, I hope it’s not aliens - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

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