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4 Star Reviews

A great end to a trilogy - The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

Fly the plane, Maddie. - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Living for the ‘maybe.’ - Under the Never Sky trilogy by Veronica Rossi

California Bones – Not your usual heist novel - California Bones by Greg van Eekhout

Undying Faith and Friendship - Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Mark Twain isn’t such a pudd’nhead after all. - Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Dresden Files in short story format - Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

The story of Jeh - Beyond the last blue mountain by R.M. Lala

A retired football player and a bossy virgin find love in Texas - Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.” - The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan

Great by Sara Benincasa - Great by Sara Benincasa

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge - Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

I’m a nice man. - Rogues by eds. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

The Adventures of Strike and Robin, Vol. II: The Publishing Industry - The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) by Robert Galbraith

Maggie: a poor, unfortunate soul. - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

(Another) depressing entry by another American author - A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Where’d the Reading go? - The Reading Zone by Nancie Atwell

Ms. Hempel Chronicles - Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Sex Work is Work - Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant

This is what happens when you covet - What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal: A Novel by Zoe Heller

The Invisible American - The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida

Ron Burgandy Might Learn A Thing or Two - Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey by Fred Minnick

I’m Team Wentworth - For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

I’m not going to lie to you. I mostly only read this because Eggs Benedict Cucumberbatch is in the movie. - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

20th Century Dalloways - Our Kind: A Novel in Stories by Kate Walbert

Sherman Alexie is one of my favorites. - War Dances by Sherman Alexie

Feminist Heroine or Romanticized Damsel in Distress? - Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love for all seasons - Wallflowers Series #1, 3 by Lisa Kleypas

Wolf Hall, or the redemption of Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Space mermaids, space pirates, and space life insurance underwriters . . . also sexy space banking! - Neptune's Brood (Freyaverse, #2) by Charles Stross

Trail of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz - Trail of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #5) by Lisa Lutz

The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz - The Spellmans Strike Again (The Spellmans #4) by Lisa Lutz

Perhaps not Staggering Genius, but Heartbreaking and Profound - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A frenetic and pulpy injection of dimension-leaping madness. - Black Science Vol. 1 by Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera, Dean White

Like talking to a cross-section of ordinary people at a pub, England and Other Stories is a collection of twenty-five short stories that peer into everyday worries, thoughts and lives. - England and Other Stories by Graham Swift

Three evocative and delicate short stories from a Japanese master. - The Counterfeiter by Yasushi Inoue

Girl Pilots! WWII! - Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

What the Dickens? - The Quincunx by Charles Palliser

The story of modern Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

One death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic - Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

Love is madness. And a joy. - The Joys of Love by Madeleine L'Engle

A contemporary romance, with PTSD and a bit of a Mary Sue - Rumor Has It by Jill Shalvis

In which I geek out about the Lizzie Bennet Diaries and this spin-off book - The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick

Like an old familiar nightmare you’d forgotten you used to have. - Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3) by Garth Nix

Another historical romance, with the Underground Railroad - Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

Jo Nesbo gives us a new sub-zero thriller - The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo

Steampunk Austrians and the Biopunk British - Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Because the Disreputable Dog, that’s why. - Lirael (Abhorsen, #2) by Garth Nix

Great young adult fantasy before young adult fantasy was cool. - Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) by Garth Nix

Yes, Dear Reader, It Happened - The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida

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