Not Every Book Is A Superstar

My most recent reviews (the last 5 months) have all been top notch books - 3.5's or 4's:

Beth Hoffman - Looking for Me
Steve Sporleder - From Sleepy Lagoon to the Corner of the Cats
Daniel Silva - The English Girl
Mitch Albom - The First Phone Call from Heaven
Amy Franklin-Willis - The Lost Saints of Tennessee
Jeffrey Archer - Best Kept Secret (#3 Clifton Chronicles)
Katie Hafner - Mother Daughter Me
Tracy Guzeman - The Gravity of Birds
Jasmine Haynes - The Naughty Corner (yes, it's an erotic romance)
JoJo Moyes - Me Before You (I haven't finished it yet, but it's going to be a 4)

I've also had a fair number of 3's (with some reviews thrown in):

David Baldacci - The Hit
Meg Clayton - The Wednesday Sisters
Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins
Hannah Jayne - Truly, Madly, Deadly
Ellen Kirschman - Burying Ben
Toni Piccinini - The Goodbye Year
Joan Swan - Rush
William Kent Kreuger - Ordinary Grace
Greg Potter - Albatross

Since I can't seem to find time to write reviews of every book I read, I think it's only fair to list the ones from the same time period that were simply good.  These are 2.5's.  I finished them and enjoyed  them, but I can't really tell you to run out and buy them.  Here they are:

Bev Spicer - Bunny on a Bike
Henning Mankell - A Treacherous Paradise
Brad Taylor - Enemy of Mine
Edwidge Danticat - Claire of the Sea Light
Diane Orgain - Bundle of Trouble
Carmen Rutlen - Dancing Naked - In Fuzzy Red Slippers
Steve Sporleder - Hobo Ashes
Bill Petrocelli - The Circle of Thirteen
Ann Patchett - This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Philip Margolin - Worthy Brown's Daughter
Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Harriet Chessman - The Beauty of Ordinary Things

Let me emphasize that 2.5 is a very decent rating.  If you decide to read a 2.5, you will be fine with that.  You may not yell it's name from a mountaintop, but you won't be sorry you read it.

P.S.  Anything less than a 2.5, or one that I didn't finish (DNF), I will save for another day. You need to know those too, but, for today, let's stick to positive ratings.