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Book Review Index - 2021& 2022

This is a list  of books that I've reviewed beginning in 2021. They are organized according to genre and I've also indicated my rating (titles rating 4 stars and higher are in red). Please see other tabs on my main page for lists of books I've previously read.


Audiobook
All Our Relations (Tanya Talaga) 4 stars
All Together Now (Alan Doyle) 5 stars
Beartown [1st book in Beartown series] (Fredrik Backman) 5 stars
Beyond the Wand (Tom Felton) 5 stars
Can't Take It Back (Kelly Duran) 2.5 stars
Daughters of the Deer (Danielle Daniel) 4.5 stars
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman) 4.5 stars
Finding Freedom (Omid Scovie/Carolyn Durand) 3 stars
Finding Me (Viola Davis) 5 stars
Greenlights (Matthew McConaughey) 5 stars
Her Last Breath [5th in Kate Burkholder series] (Linda Castillo) 3.5 stars
I Must Say (Martin Short) 5 stars
It's Not What It Looks Like (Molly Burke) 3 stars
Just Haven't Met You Yet (Sophie Cousens) 3.5 stars
Matilda (Roald Dahl) 4 stars
Mean Baby (Selma Blair) 3 stars
Paris Is Always A Good Idea (Jenn McKinlay) 2 stars *print & audio review*
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) 4 stars
Queen of Swords [5th in Wilderness series] (Sara Donati) 4 stars
Royal (Danielle Steel) 3 stars
Sunshine Girl (Julianna Margulies) 3.5 stars
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend (Ben Philippe) 3.5 stars
Talking To Canadians (Rick Mercer) 4 stars
Taste: My Life Through Food (Stanley Tucci) - audio & print read 5 stars
The Answer Is ... (Alex Trebek) 5 stars
The Bad Beginning [1st in Series of Unfortunate Events] (Lemony Snicket) 3 stars
The Cactus (Sarah Haywood) 2.5 stars
The Comeback (Lucy Chu) 3.5 stars
The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi) 3 stars
The Heart's Invisible Furies (John Boyne) 5 stars
The Land of Forgotten Girls (Erin Estrada Kelly) 2 stars
The Library of Lost and Found (Phaedra Patrick) 4 stars
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe [#2 in Chronicles of Narnia] (C.S Lewis) 3 stars
The Other Daughter (Lauren Willig) 2.5 stars
The Paris Apartment (Lucy Foley) 4 stars
The Prynne Viper (Bianca Marais) 5 stars
The Reading List (Sara Nisha Adams) 4 stars
The Spanish Love Deception (Elena Armas) 2.5 stars
The Storyteller (Dave Grohl) 4.5 stars
The Tuscan Child (Rhys Bowen) 3 stars
The Wedding Crasher (Mia Sosa) 2.5 stars
The Wife Upstairs (Rachel Hawkins) 3 stars
Tea, Tiramisu & Tough Guys (#2 in Cape Bay Cafe cozy mystery) Harper Lin 2 stars
Too Much and Never Enough (Mary L Trump) 3.5 stars
Under One Roof (Ali Hazelwood) 4 stars
Under the Whispering Door (TJ Klune) 3 stars
Us Against You [2nd book in Beartown series] (Fredrik Backman) 3.5 stars
We Were Dreamers (Simu Liu) 4 stars
With The Fire On High (Elizabeth Acevedo) 4 stars
Wolf's Bane [#1 in Otherworld: Kate and Logan series] (Kelley Armstrong) 4.5 stars
Yearbook (Seth Rogen) 4.5 stars

Love Lines by Cara Bastone
Call Me Maybe (book 1) 3 stars
Sweet Talk (book 2) 4 stars
Seatmate (book 3) 4 stars

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Fiery Cross (book 5) 3 stars
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (book 6) 4 stars



Biography/Memoir
Beyond the Wand (Tom Felton) 5 stars
Deaf Utopia (Nyle DiMarco) 3 stars
Mean Baby (Selma Blair) 3 stars
Out of the Corner (Jennifer Grey) 4 stars
Taste: My Life Through Food (Stanley Tucci) - audio & print read 5 stars
Warrior: Audrey Hepburn (Robert Matzen) 3 stars
We Were Dreamers (Simu Liu) 4 stars


BIPOC Author
** See Indigenous heading below**
All The Lonely People (Mike Gayle) 3 stars
Black Buck (Mateo Askaripour) 2.5 stars
Black Cake (Charmaine Wilkderson) 3.5 stars
Concrete Rose [0 in THUG series] Angie Thomas 4 stars
Firekeeper's Daughter (Angeline Boulley) 5 stars
Kamila Knows Best (Farah Heron) 3.5 stars
Quiet In Her Bones (Nalini Singh) 4 stars
Tahira in Bloom (Farah Heron) 4 stars
The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi) 3 stars
The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett) 2.5 stars
The Vibrant Years (Sonali Dev) 3 stars
We Are Not Like Them (Christine Pride and Jo Piazza) 4.5 stars
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson 3.5 stars


Canadian
A Rip Through Time [#1 in Rip Through Time series] Kelley Armstrong 2.5 stars
A Trick of the Light [#7 in Gamache series] (Louise Penny) 3 stars
Accidentally Engaged (Farah Heron) 4.5 stars
All Our Relations (Tanya Talaga) 4 stars (Audiobook)
An Unthinkable Thing (Nicole Lundrigan) 4.5 stars
Are You Sara? (S.C Lalli) 3 stars
Beneath Her Skin (C.S Porter) 4 stars
Bloomsbury Girls (Natalie Jenner) 3.5 stars
Bluebird (Genevieve Graham) 5 stars
Bury Your Dead (#6 in Gamache series) Louise Penny 4.5 stars
Creep [1st book in Creep series] (Jennifer Hillier) 3.5 stars
Dark August (Katie Tallo) 4 stars
Dark Roads (Chevy Stevens) 4.5 stars
Entitled (Cookie Boyle) 3.5 stars
Every Summer After (Carley Fortune) 5 stars
Eve's Rib (C.S O'Cinneide) 3 stars
Find You First (Linwood Barclay) 4 stars
Good in Bed [1st book in Cannie Shapiro series] (Jennifer Weiner) 3.5 stars
Gutter Child (Jael Richardson) 4 stars
Hana Khan Carries On (Uzma Jalaluddin) 5 stars
It's Not What It Looks Like (Molly Burke) 3 stars (AUDIOBOOK)
Kamila Knows Best (Farah Heron) 3.5 stars
Last One Alive (Amber Cowie) 3 stars
Letters Across the Sea (Genevieve Graham) 4.5 stars
Looking For Jane (Heather Marshall) 5 stars
The List of Last Chances (Christina Myers) 4 stars
Lucky (Marissa Stapley) 3.5 stars
Never Coming Home (Hannah Mary McKinnon) 3 stars
New Girl in Little Cove (Damhnait Monaghan) 4.5 stars
Not A Happy Family (Shari Lapena) 5 stars
Reasonable Adults (Robin Lefler) 3 stars
Sins of the Daughter (Carolyn Huizinga Mills) 4 stars
Our Darkest Night (Jennifer Robson) 4.5 stars
Starling (Kirsten Cram) 
4 stars
Tahira in Bloom (Farah Heron) 4 stars
Take My Husband (Ellen Meister) 3 stars
Take Your Breath Away (Linwood Barclay) 5 stars
Talking To Canadians (Rick Mercer) 4 stars
The Answer Is ... (Alex Trebek) 5 stars
The Book of Cold Cases (Simone St James) 4 stars
The Comeback (Lucy Chu) 3.5 stars [audiobook]
The Good Women of Safe Harbour (Bobbi French) 3 stars
The Hunted (Roz Nay) 3.5 stars
The Maid (Nita Prose) 5 stars
The Most Precious Substance on Earth (Shashi Bhat) 2.5 stars
The Opportunist (Elyse Friedman) 4.5 stars
The Perfect Family (Robyn Harding) 4 stars
The Prynne Viper (Bianca Marais) 5 stars (Audiobook)
The Push (Ashley Audrain) 4 stars
The Theory of Crows (David A Robertson) 4.5 stars
The Vanished Days (Susanna Kearsley) 3 stars
The Witches of Moonshyne Manor (Bianca Marais) 4 stars
Things We Do In The Dark (Jennifer Hillier) 3.5 stars
Two Generals (Scott Chantler) 3 stars
Watch Out For Her (Samantha Bailey) 5 stars
We Were Dreamers (Simu Liu) 4 stars
Wolf's Bane [#1 in Otherworld: Kate and Logan series] (Kelley Armstrong) 4.5 stars AUDIO
Yearbook (Seth Rogen) 4.5 stars
You Will Remember Me (Hannah Mary McKinnon) 3.5 stars


Children and Middle School
Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer (Leslie Gentile) 4 stars
George (Alex Gino) 4 stars
Matilda (Roald Dahl) -- eAUDIOBOOK -- 4 stars
Regina is NOT A Little Dinosaur  (Andrea Zuill) -- picture book 4 stars
The Bad Beginning [1st in Series of Unfortunate Events] (Lemony Snicket) 3 stars
The Land of Forgotten Girls (Erin Estrada Kelly) 2 stars


Contemporary Fiction
A Million Reasons Why (Jessica Strawser) 3 stars
Again, Rachel - #7 in Walsh Family series - (Marian Keyes) 4 stars
All The Lonely People (Mike Gayle) 3 stars
Always, in December (Emily Stone) 2.5 stars
Anxious People (Fredrik Backman) 4 stars
Beach House Summer (Sarah Morgan) 2.5 stars
Before I Saw You (Emily Houghton) 2 stars
Black Cake (Charmaine Wilkderson) 3.5 stars
Eliza Starts A Rumor (Jane L Rosen) 3.5 stars
Entitled (Cookie Boyle) 3.5 stars
Every Summer After (Carley Fortune) 5 stars
Impossible to Forget (Imogen Clark) 4 stars
It Had To Be You (Georgia Clark)  4 stars
Just Last Night (Mhairi McFarlane) 3 stars
Ladies of the House (Lauren Edmondson) 3 stars
Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus) 3.5 stars
Lucky (Marissa Stapley) 3.5 stars
Mad Honey (Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan) 5 stars
Malibu Rising (Taylor Jenkins Reid) 3 stars
Moment in Time (Suzanne Redfearn) 3.5 stars
November 9 (Colleen Hoover) 2 stars
One Italian Summer (Rebecca Serle) 3 stars
People We Meet on Vacation (Emily Henry) 5 stars
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt) 4 stars
Sins of the Daughter (Carolyn Huizinga Mills) 4 stars
That Summer (Jennifer Weiner) 3.5 stars
The Beach Trap (Ali Brady) 3 stars
The Family Remains [2nd in Family Upstairs series] (Lisa Jewell) 2.5 stars
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman (Julietta Henderson) 3 stars
The Good Women of Safe Harbour (Bobbi French) 3 stars
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island (Colleen Oakley) 3 stars
The Last Chance Library (Freya Sampson) 3.5 stars
The Library (Bella Osborne)  4 stars
The Life List (Lori Nelson Spielman) 3.5 stars
The List of Last Chances (Christina Myers) 4 stars
The Messy Lives of Book People (Phaedra Patrick) 2.5 stars
The Midnight Library (Matt Haig) 5 stars
The Music of Bees (Eileen Garwin) 4 stars
The Road Trip (Beth O'Leary) 3.5 stars
The Sign For Home (Blair Fell) 4.5 stars
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany (Lori Nelson Spielman) 5 stars
The Summer Place (Jennifer Weiner) 4.5 stars
The Truth About Ben and June (Alex Kiester) 3 stars
The Truth About Melody Browne (Lisa Jewell) 3 stars
The Vibrant Years (Sonali Dev) 3 stars
The Younger Wife (Sally Hepworth) 3 stars
This Place of Wonder (Barbara O'Neal)  4 stars
True Biz (Sara Novic) 4 stars
We Are Not Like Them (Christine Pride and Jo Piazza) 4.5 stars
We Begin At The End (Chris Whitaker) 3 stars
Wish You Were Here (Jodi Picoult) 4 stars

Beartown series (Fredrik Backman)
Beartown (book 1) - audiobook
Us Against You (book 2) - audiobook
The Winners (book 3)


Cookbooks

Make Every Dish Delicious (Lesley Chesterman) 4 stars


Fantasy

Fable [#1 in Fable series] (Adrienne Young) 3.5 stars
From Blood and Ash [#1 in Blood and Ash series] (Jennifer L Armentrout) 3.5 stars
The House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J Klune) 3 stars
The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon) 2.5 stars


Graphic Novel
Book Love (Debbie Tung) 3 stars
Heartstopper - Vol 1 & 2 (Alice Oseman) 4 stars
Heartstopper: Vol 3 and 4 (Alice Oseman) 4 stars & 4.5 stars
Two Generals (Scott Chantler) 3 stars


Historical Fiction

World Wars

Slavery

England and Scotland

North American

Other

Indigenous 
All Our Relations (Tanya Talaga) 4 stars (Audiobook)
Daughters of the Deer (Danielle Daniel) 4.5 stars (Audiobook)
Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer (Leslie Gentile) 4 stars
Firekeeper's Daughter (Angeline Boulley) 5 stars
Scars & Stars: Poems (Jesse Thistle) 5 stars
The Theory of Crows (David A Robertson) 4.5 stars

LGBTQ
George (Alex Gino) 4 stars
Heartstopper - Vol 1 & 2 (Alice Oseman) 4 stars
The Guncle (Steven Rowley) 3.5 stars
The Charm Offensive (Alison Cochrun) 5 stars
Tremendous Things (Susin Nielsen) 5 stars


Literary Fiction
Notes on an Execution (Danya Kukafka) 3 stars
Starling (Kirsten Cram) 4 stars
The Most Precious Substance on Earth (Shashi Bhat) 2.5 stars
What's Mine And Yours (Naima Coster) 2 stars



Mysteries
A Rip Through Time [#1 in Rip Through Time series] Kelley Armstrong 2.5 stars
An Impossible Imposter [#7 in Veronica Speedwell] (Deanna Raybourn) 4 stars
Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Elle Cosimano) 3.5 stars
The Ghosts of Paris [2nd book in Billie Walker series] (Tara Moss) 3 stars
The Maid (Nita Prose) 5 stars
The Stranger Diaries [1st in Harbinder Kaur series] (Elly Griffiths) 3 stars
The Woman in the Library (Sulari Gentill) 3 stars

Cozy

Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny
Sparks and Bainbridge Historical Mystery series by Allison Montclair 

NonFiction
Remember (Lisa Genova) 5 stars
Scars & Stars: Poems (Jesse Thistle) 5 stars
The Storyteller (Dave Grohl) 4.5 stars (audiobook - memoir)


Romance/Rom Com

Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn
Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams

Rom Com
A Guide to Being Just Friends [#3 in Jansen Brothers series] (Sophie Sullivan) 3 stars
Accidentally Engaged (Farah Heron) 4.5 stars
Better Than The Movies (Lynn Painter) 4.5 stars
Book Lovers (Emily Henry) 4 stars
By Any Other Name (Lauren Kate) 4 stars
Dial A For Aunties (Jesse Q Sutanto)  2 stars
Duke, Actually (Jenny Holiday) 4.5 stars
Eight Perfect Hours (Lia Louis) 3.5 stars
Here For The Drama (Kate Bromley) 4 stars
In A Holidaze (Christina Lauren) 3 stars
In A New York Minute (Kate Spencer) 3 stars
Kamila Knows Best (Farah Heron) 3.5 stars
Love on the Brain (Ali Hazelwood) 4 stars
Meet Me In Paradise (Libby Hubscher) 5 stars
Meet Me In The Margins (Melissa Ferguson) 2.5 stars
Mr. Perfect on Paper (Jean Meltzer) 3.5 stars
Mr. Wrong Number (Lynn Painter) 4 stars
Never Fall For Your Fiancée [1st in Merriwell Sisters series] (Virginia Heath) 3 stars
Paris Is Always A Good Idea (Jenn McKinlay) 2 stars *print & audio review*
Part Of Your World (Abby Jimenez) 4.5 stars
Talk Bookish To Me (Kate Bromley) 4.5 stars
The Beach Reads Book Club (Kathryn Freeman) 2 stars
The Bodyguard (Katherine Center) 4.5 stars
The Charm Offensive (Alison Cochrun) 5 stars
The Dead Romantics (Ashley Poston) 3 stars
The Ex Hex (Erin Sterling) 2 stars
The Love Hypothesis (Ali Hazelwood) 4.5 stars
The Matzah Ball (Jean Meltzer) 3 stars
The Spanish Love Deception (Elena Armas) 2.5 stars (audiobook)
Weather Girl (Rachel Lynn Solomon) 3.5 stars

Historical Romance
Bringing Down The Duke [#1 in League of Extraordinary Women] (Evie Dunmore) 2 stars



Satire
Black Buck (Mateo Askaripour) 2.5 stars

Sci-Fi
The End of Men (Christina Sweeney-Baird) 4 stars


Short Story/Novella
Almost Midnight (Rainbow Rowell) 4.5 stars
Signal Moon (Kate Quinn) 4 stars
The Prynne Viper (Bianca Marais) 5 stars (Audiobook)

Suspense
A Flicker in the Dark (Stacy Willingham) 4 stars
All The Dangerous Things (Stacy Willingham) 3.5 stars
An Unthinkable Thing (Nicole Lundrigan) 4.5 stars
And There He Kept Her (Joshua Moehling) 5 stars
Are You Sara? (S.C Lalli) 3 stars
Beneath Her Skin (C.S Porter) 4 stars
Catch Her When She Falls (Allison Buccola) 3.5 stars
Cold Cold Bones - 21st book in Tempe Brennan series (Kathy Reichs) 4 stars
Creep [1st book in Creep series] (Jennifer Hillier) 3.5 stars
Dark August (Katie Tallo) 4 stars
Dark Roads (Chevy Stevens) 4.5 stars
Everything We Didn't Say (Nicole Baart) 4.5 stars
Eve's Rib (C.S O'Cinneide) 3 stars
Falling (TJ Newman) 5 stars
Find You First (Linwood Barclay) 4 stars
First Born (Will Dean) 3 stars
Gone Missing [#4 in Kate Burkholder series] (Linda Castillo) 4 stars
Hide [1st in Det. Harriet Foster] (Tracy Clark) 4.5 stars
Hostage (Clare Mackintosh)  4.5 stars
In My Dreams I Hold A Knife (Ashley Winstead) 4 stars
Last One Alive (Amber Cowie) 3 stars
Local Woman Missing (Mary Kubica) 5 stars
My Sister Is Missing (Carissa Ann Lynch) 2 stars
Never Coming Home (Hannah Mary McKinnon) 3 stars
Not A Happy Family (Shari Lapena) 5 stars
Over My Dead Body [#4 in William Warwick series] (Jeffrey Archer) 3.5 stars
Quiet In Her Bones (Nalini Singh) 4 stars
Rock Paper Scissors (Alice Feeney) 3.5 stars
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Lisa Unger) 3 stars
Survive the Night (Riley Sager) 3 stars
The Book of Cold Cases (Simone St James) 4 stars
The Butcher and the Wren (Alaina Urquhart) 2 stars
The Change (Kirsten Miller) 5 stars
The Children on the Hill (Jennifer McMahon) 4.5 stars
The Dragon Head of Hong Kong [0.5 of Ava Lee series] (Ian Hamilton) 3 stars
The Echo Man (Sam Holland) 5 stars
The Family Plot (Megan Collins) 3 stars
The Good Sister (Sally Hepworth) 5 stars
The Imposter (Marin Montgomery) 2.5 stars
The Last Party (Clare Mackintosh) 3.5 stars
The Last Thing He Told Me (Laura Dave) 3 stars
The Match [#2 in the Wilde series] (Harlan Coben) 3.5 stars
The Mother Next Door (Tara Laskowski) 3.5 stars
The Night She Disappeared (Lisa Jewell) 3.5 stars
The Opportunist (Elyse Friedman) 4.5 stars
The Overnight Guest (Heather Gudenkauf) 4.5 stars
The Push (Ashley Audrain) 4 stars
The Silent Sisters [3rd in Charles Jenkins series] (Robert Dugoni) 4 stars
Things We Do In The Dark (Jennifer Hillier) 3.5 stars
Trapped [#1 in Dabiri & Walder] (Camilla Lackberg, Henrik Fexeus) 4 stars
Twenty Years Later (Charlie Donlea) 3 stars
Watch Out For Her (Samantha Bailey) 5 stars
What You Never Knew (Jessica Hamilton) 3.5 stars
What's Done In Darkness (Laura McHugh)  4.5 stars
When The Stars Go Dark (Paula McLain) 4.5 stars
You Will Remember Me (Hannah Mary McKinnon) 3.5 stars


Anjelica Henley series by Nadine Matheson
The Jigsaw Man (book 1) 4.5 stars
The Binding Room (book 2) 4 stars

Rachel Marin series by Jason Pinter
Hide Away (book 1)


Gothic
Mrs. England (Stacey Halls) 4 stars
The Drowning Kind (Jennifer McMahon) 4 stars


Tracy Crosswhite series by Robert Dugoni

Windsor Horne Lockwood III series by Harlan Coben
  • Win [book 1] 4.5 stars


Teen
Almost Midnight (Rainbow Rowell) 4.5 stars
Better Than The Movies (Lynn Painter) 4.5 stars
Concrete Rose [0 in THUG series] Angie Thomas 4 stars
Fable [#1 in Fable series] (Adrienne Young) 3.5 stars
Gutter Child (Jael Richardson) 4 stars
Landline (Rainbow Rowell) 2.5 stars
Tahira in Bloom (Farah Heron) 4 stars
To All The Boys I've Loved Before (Jenny Han) 4 stars  ** Audiobook **
Tremendous Things (Susin Nielsen) 5 stars
With The Fire On High (Elizabeth Acevedo) 4 stars ** Audiobook **
Wolf's Bane [#1 in Otherworld: Kate and Logan series] (Kelley Armstrong) 4.5 stars * Audiobook

Heartstopper series (Alice Oseman)
Heartstopper - Vol 1 & 2 (Alice Oseman) 4 stars
Heartstopper: Vol 3 and 4 (Alice Oseman) 4 stars & 4.5 stars

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