Truth Be Told by Kia Abdullah (I didn’t realize this was the second book in a series)

Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life by Rebecca Fogg (interesting! What a freak accident!)

Not So Perfect Strangers by L.S. Stratton (okay, uneven)

Hysteria by Megan Miranda (bad)

Take it Back by Kia Abdullah (a little too “ripped from the headlines”)

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation by Jon Ward (how is this guy a reporter? He displays zero critical thinking skills even after years of being away from the church and being a reporter)

A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson (interesting and the Swedish court system is weird!)

Closer by Sea by Perry Chafe (great)

Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman (blah, cheesy)

Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz (a little slow at times)

My Murder by Katie Williams (good)

Don’t Call Me Home by Alexandra Auder (Viva sounds awful but the book is uneven. In the acknowledgements she talks about how she had been writing the book for 25+ years and it feels like it, it’s pretty disjointed and jumps around a lot)

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand (breezy)

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall (Fun idea. Almost too many revelations though! It was too obvious that the son was the podcaster. I’m sure I’ve read that in a different book before.)

Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale (okay)

She Started It by Sian Gilbert (not as bad as I expected)

Zero Days by Ruth Ware (bad)

The Only One Left by Riley Sanger (not bad)

This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something–Anything–Like Your Life Depends On It by Tabitha Carvan (I have never related to someone less. I get the fan part but she is so fixated on other people’s opinions it seemed pathological. Also puzzled by how much she wants to fit in but also seemed to be very independent—traveling alone for concerts, international moves—in other ways)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (bad, why doesn’t she stick to what she knows??)

Penance by Kanae Minato with Philip Gabriel (Translator) (fine)

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham (interesting)

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled by Blythe Roberson (pretty good but not as funny as I think it was supposed to be)

Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda (fine)

You Can’t Stay Here Forever by Katherine Lin (oddly flat character building for a book that was all about the characters and had little plot)

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian (sad)

The Favor by Adele Griffin (weird, scattered)

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel (poorly written)