five star – The Book Review Crew

22 Jan 2026

A Box of Darkness, a Review by Susan

by Susan | posted in: 5 star read, Susan, Thriller | 0

👻👻👻👻👻 A Box Full of Darkness Simone St. James 344 Pages Berkeley Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org Simone St. James is an author I keep returning to, even though I have not always liked all of her books equally. She also writes … Continued

22 Nov 2025

The View from Lake Como, a Review by Susan

by Susan | posted in: 5 star read, Romance, Susan, Women | 0

🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝 The View from Lake Como Adriana Trigiani 415 pages Dutton Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This is the first book I have read by Adriana Trigiani and it will not be the last. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience and highly recommend it … Continued

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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.