Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I was a little lost but it was a fun ride all the same

Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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Cbr18bingo And (4th book in the Villain series) Bingo #1 Adversary to the Villain is the fourth book in Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s Villain series, with a fifth and final volume to follow next year. I read the first three volumes last summer and liked them very much. I had intended to do a re-read before jumping into book 4 but I never got around to it and I have some regrets about that. Perhaps if I had reread at least volume three I would have […]

Better than the first one

Bridget & Gabe Are Not Okay by Lex Croucher

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CBR18 Bingo: And (literally in the title) Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. I don’t know if Croucher intends this to be an ongoing series, but readers should know that this is book two, and this review is probably going to contain some spoilers for book one, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love (which I read earlier this summer, but will not be reviewing because I’m already WAY too […]

The Grass Was Hysterical with Dew

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

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Ugh. This is the second book I’ve read in a row now where the characters are terrible people who are impossible to root for. The first was Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke, and now it’s Entitlement, by Rumaan Alam. In Entitlement, we have aged billionaire Asher Jaffe, who creates a foundation to “give away” his fortune before he dies. Unsurprisingly, Jaffe turns out not to be a good person. He spends nearly a million dollars on a birthday present for his wife, but thinks $10k is […]

Hopeless Romantics by Mhairi McFarlane

Hopeless Romantics by Mhairi McFarlane

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I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review.  I got nothing. The first part of this book when Tess and Ryan are in their 20s and meet with their messy/hilarious friends on their way to a wedding was great. And then there was a side story that never really gets resolved. But mostly this book is about how Tess and Ryan fell for each other and then over the course of 10 plus years kept meeting and things never […]

Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen

Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I struggled a lot to finish this one. I almost DNFed it a few times because I honestly just felt like I was just reading random sentences with no real logic behind the plots of this book. And then the last 20 percent of the book was one character telling another character (slowly) about something that happened that readers had known about since the first part of the […]

lacks the heft needed for the subject matter

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

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CBR Bingo: Craft, because much of this is about the Craft of Acting and how its pursuit irrevocably ties together our main characters. Clearly I am back on the reading train and angling to make up for lost time. I’m not entirely sure where I got this recommendation from–I think it was a Goodreads one–but it’s definitely a certain type of book for a certain type of reader and I don’t think that reader is me. Hence I’m being a bit kinder in the overall […]



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