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If you like piña coladas, and pushing guys into trains - Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

If I was wrong, I’d probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse. - Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells; Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells

L’état C’est Lost - The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

In short, war is bad. Also gay. - In Memoriam by Alice Winn

“But in his experience, being bad with names was like being bad with swords. Most people could learn if they tried hard enough.” - Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Here we have a Pride & Prejudice retelling that I enjoyed - Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh

“I subscribe to a theory that answers cannot hide from us forever if we seek them long enough.” - Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

Earth as the Main Character - Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Closest thing I’ve found to a literal Cannonball Read - Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

“But that didn’t mean his words had not been true. The most honest things were often said when you weren’t thinking.” - The Mistress Experience by Scarlett Peckham

“If no one is going to remind you that you are worth more than all of these awful men combined, I will.” - Loud: Accepting Nothing Less than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo

Same as it ever was - The Colony by Audrey Magee

What would you do? - Shadows on the Ice: The 1972 Andes Disaster by Frédéric Bertocchini, Thierry Diette and Pacal Nino

A.I.: The Good, The Bad, The Monster - The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag

Forced to leave home - Wings to Soar by Tina Athaide

It’s All Starting to Come Together - The Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne

Bergère d’Azur Infinie - The Wedding People by Alison Espach

He constantly reminds me of a dark-haired Steve Rogers, not entirely grasping that Hooters isn’t really just a hot wings place. - My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

Animorphs #12 Predicts The Substance?! - The Forgotten by K. A. Applegate; The Reaction by K. A. Applegate

If You’re Curious About the World of Anora… - Soft Core by Brittany Newell

“What, other than a person, could you build up merely by caring?” - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Horribly Fun - Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Not Murderbot, but still good - Witch King by Martha Wells

Less the colour of magic, more the shades - Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan

I was sixteen. I lived inside of myself way more than I lived inside of this town. - Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

Being the new kids in school isn’t their only issue - Glitch Volume 1 by Abigail Blackman, Eleanor Summers and Shima Shinya

The Bookwork and the Rugby player - Brielle and Bear: Volume 1: (A Graphic Novel) (Once Upon a Time University) by Salomey Doku

She’s not the spirit we wanted, but the one we needed - Zawa + The Belly of the Beast by Michael Dialynas

Look forward with the words of Watson - Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson and Ekua Holmes

I should read more Susanna Kearsley - The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley

Dogs are purest good boys, even in Animorphs - Megamorphs #1: The Andalite’s Gift by K. A. Applegate; The Alien by K. A. Applegate; The Secret by K. A. Applegate; The Android by K. A. Applegate

The Fall Risk by Abby Jimenez - The Fall Risk by Abby Jimenez

“Four legs good, two legs bad” - Animal Farm by George Orwell

A complicated mix of a story - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

“I can be brave. I can be anything for noodles.” - Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

The Fatal Flaw of a Single Drop - Fauna by Denise Robins

“Like eating very expensive chocolate, savouring every moment because you don’t know when you’ll have it again.” - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

I bet this will be a pretty good movie. - The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

An ant and adventures - Ant Story by Jay Hosler

Hook, Line and Thinker - All Fours by Miranda July

“Katarina Shaw was in the building, and she had come to win.” - The Favorites by Layne Fargo

Seriously? That’s It? - A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

The Other Empresses - The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe by Nancy Goldstone

“Did I ever imagine how things were going to turn out? No, thank God. Why thank God? Had it been that bad? No, of course not. Only quite, quite different. Just as well one didn’t know in advance.” - Change Lobsters and Dance by Lilli Palmer

Not your Grandma’s Brazil. Your Great-Great-Grandma’s, Maybe. - Dom Casmurro by Machado De Assis

“The human factor is three-quarters of any expedition.” - Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

Not what Schrödinger had in mind, but I’ll take it - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Beautiful, Emotional, and Sadly Still Relevant - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

I probably rewrote this review a billion times before I thought I was done, then realized I needed more, so just read this book okay?  - You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir by Harry Bliss

All our yesterdays - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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