Five star reads – The Book Review Crew

5 Apr 2026

The Book Witch, a Review by Susan

by Susan | posted in: 5 star read, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Romance, Susan | 0

📖📖📖📖📖 The Book Witch Meg Shaffer Ballantine Books 320 Pages Pub. Date April 7, 2026 Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org “All stories are love stories if you love stories.” This is a line from this book that will resonate with me. I see myself … Continued

5 Jan 2026

Theo of Golden, a review by Susan

by Susan | posted in: 5 star read, Susan | 7

👴👴👴👴👴 Theo of Golden Allen Levi 399 pages Atria Books Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org Theo of Golden is a person that most of us would like to meet. He is an elderly gentleman in his 80s who seems to genuinely care about people, … Continued

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Our Rating system

We like to have a little fun around here, below you find an outline for our rating system, everything is out of 5. Also you”ll often see we replace the star emoji for something that reflects the read.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐= Knocked my socks off. Will not stop talking about it. Have lost friends because I won’t shut up about it. Will take it personally if you do not stop what you’re doing and start reading it. Would actually read it again. A hot guy who is smart AND so pretty. A perfect cloudless 75 degree day.

⭐⭐⭐⭐= Knocked only one sock off. Will more than likely follow/read everything by the author and will keep a copy on my bookshelf. Chai tea on a cool crisp autumn afternoon.

⭐⭐⭐= Neutral; did not lose any socks over this book and will be wishing I got it at the library instead of purchasing. An average piece of work. If it were an ice cream flavor, it would be vanilla.

⭐⭐= Wouldn’t recommend to someone I like. Overall meh feeling on this one.

⭐ = Waste of time, VERY close to not finishing it but my parents didn’t raise a quitter. Will mourn the loss of time that could’ve been spent reading something else. Kissing someone with bad breath.