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Why do I keep doing this to myself?

The One by Kiera Cass

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I’m sure that many of you have the same habit- once you’ve started reading something you have to finish it. Including a series- if I’ve plugged through a whole book in the series, I’m going to continue to read the rest. Very rarely do I give up, even when I spend more time rolling my eyes than looking at the page. Which is how I find myself writing a review of the third book in this series. The series follows ‘the Selection’, which is when […]

Lester Papadopoulos closes it out

The Trials of Apollo : The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

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We’re big fans of Rick Riordan in my house- my son has been re-reading various of his book series for the last four years pretty much non-stop. His latest book, The Tower of Nero, completes the five-book Trials of Apollo series and wraps up the Greek and Roman mythologies he began in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In this series, the god Apollo is punished by Zeus by being cast down to Earth in the form of a pimply, flabby teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. Apollo has lost his powers […]

What a way to start the year

You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria

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After failing miserably to keep up with reviews last year, I’m hoping to do better with this Cannonball. And so to start off my year of reading I picked You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria. This romance reminded me a lot of Jasmine Guillory’s better books. Jasmine is a soap star looking to get a big break and make more of her career. She lands the lead role on a series for a streaming service and is determined to make the most of it. […]

Parts of two series

Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren

Dirty Rowdy Thing by Christina Lauren

Dark Wild Nights by Christina Lauren

Skin by Dale Mayer

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  The Wild Seasons series by Christina Lauren is a 4-book series. I’m reviewing the first three, and won’t likely be reading on to the fourth. This in no way means that the first three aren’t great. Sweet Filthy Boy is the first in the series. Three childhood friends have just graduated college and take a weekend in Las Vegas to celebrate. Mia is the main protagonist of this installment. She has a distant relationship with her parents and is dreading moving to Boston in […]

Two Stories, Rethought

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Thor Vol 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron

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  I’m a big Jane Austen fan and Pride and Prejudice is my favorite of her works. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld is a modern-day retelling of this classic story that stays pretty faithful to the spirit of the original. Elizabeth Bennet is here re-imagined as a writer for a women’s magazine. She is 38 and living in New York City. She and her elder sister, Jane, unexpectedly return to Cincinnati after their father has a heart attack. They find their family and their childhood home […]



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