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4 Star Reviews

A Trans-Austen Historical Romance - A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

Toward the End of the Morning - Toward the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn

With Friends Like These - Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

Murder Mystery Fairy Tale Fantasy Goodness - Beauty and the Alchemist by Elle Hartford

The Sidewalks of New York - Tales of Times Square by Josh Alan Friedman

With friends like these, you’ll be okay - Monster Friends by  Katei Vandorn 

Sedaris’s best collection since When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Happy Go Lucky by David Sedaris

Winter People – a unique take on reviving the dead - Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

so very many thoughts about this book - Husband Material by Alexis Hall

lovely standalone book for fans of alternative(?) scifi - Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

finally finally reading this! can’t even remember who recommended it - Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

Creatively murdering people for the money. #CBRBINGO – Dough - The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2) by Seishi Yokomizo

“You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go.” - A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

A Policeman’s Lot is Not a Happy One - The Abstainer by Ian McGuire

a very quick read (probably could have been one book, not that I’m complaining) - The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

this one threw me down the rabbit hole - Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

I hope this one gets as much love as the prior one - The Daughter of Dr. Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“nonetheless, she persisted” — and in style - Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

The one where Holden gets to be a do-gooder on another planet. - Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4) by James S.A. Corey

“Sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman’s best friend.” - Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Neverland will never let go… - Hooked by A.C. Wise

Art and Artist - Edward Hopper: The Story of His Life by Sergio Rossi

“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It’s good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.” - One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston

Brooding heirs, a castle, a ghost, a bad@ss maid, and a kick@ss not-so-damsel in distress - The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity

“I’ve gone mad. The hedgehog was probably a warning sign. The saints only know what I’ve really got in my pocket.” - The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

Double Play - Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant; The House that Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankee Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 by Robert Weintraub

Different Scandals in Different Places - A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

Who-dunnit and who are these people? - The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

Empathy and Diversity in Xenobiology - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

But the Habits of Memory Created All Kinds of False Harbours. - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

“Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.” - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

“The world changed faster than I could” - Don't Cry For Me by Daniel Black

For my friend Petra, without whom I would not be reading this series - The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

Slooooow-burn sapphic romance with a fire starter (pun intended) - Know It in the Dark by Skye Kilaen

I found this Persian-inspired fantasy intriguing. - This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1) by Tahereh Mafi

“I care about you, okay? I like you, even though you’re prickly as hell and looking at me like you wish I would vaporize, and you think ketchup is a vegetable.” - Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

You’ll never look at mushrooms the same way… - The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy

“Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant ‘idiot’.” - The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Necessity of Violence - Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution by R.F. Kuang

This lean and mean mashup of Alien, The Shining, and Event Horizon is great fun for horror fans! - Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

A really good anthology! Emmalita and andtheIToldYouSos were not kidding. - Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Eds. Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

It was super weird finally continuing this series. - Song of the Wanderer (The Unicorn Chronicles, #2) by Bruce Coville

Revisiting a childhood favorite so I can finally finish the series, twenty-eight years later. - Into the Land of the Unicorns (The Unicorn Chronicles, #1) by Bruce Coville

A series of existential crises packed into one easy-to-read tome! #CBRBINGO – Star - A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Who are the dolls in the doll house? CBR14 Bingo: ‘Verse - The Sandman, volume 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg (illustrator), Malcolm Jones III (illustrator), Robbie Busch (colorer), Todd Klein (letterer), John Costanza (letter)

The Title is a Bit of a Spoiler - Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert

“some perfect and unexplainable force of love” - Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan

Fascinating historical fantasy mystery, an okay romance. - Rag and Bone (Rag and Bone, #1) by K.J. Charles

I want to try the dish and get a doll of our gal Anni! - Anni Dreams of Biryani by Namita Moolani Mehra

Came For The Recipes, Stayed for the Memoir - Arabiyya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora by Reem Assil

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