Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Return Journeys (The Road Trip, #1.5)

The Return Journeys (The Road Trip, #1.5) by Beth O'Leary

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Wow. Only 10 pages long, but this actually made me like Marcus. Who knew. Seriously though, this was funny. If you haven’t read “The Road Trip” you won’t get this at all, but this takes place after the wedding. A great way to follow up with Addie and Dylan. I seriously wanted to read more when I was done with this. The main reason why I didn’t give this one 5 stars, is it just feels like a very abrupt ending. Think another chapter with […]

Tiffy and Leon’s Christmas Letters (The Flatshare, #1.5)

Tiffy and Leon's Christmas Letters (The Flatshare, #1.5) by Beth O'Leary

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Great letters showing us Tiffy and Leon after they get together. It really does bring me back to “The Flatshare” and how much I loved that first book. I also loved the little nods we get about Richie and someone “you know who” that he ends up sleeping with. I really wish that we had gotten more extras, but cannot be greedy.

The No-Show

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary

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I struggled with this review and rewrote it four times. I went back and forth between 1 and 3 stars and finally in the end just settled on 1 star because this book as a whole was a mess. I think what took the cake is that this book is a really bad mystery/tragedy marketed as a romance novel. Romance readers get yelled at about this all the time, but a romance novel at its core needs to have a happily ever after or a […]

Freaky Friday without the magic

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

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Do you need a gentle, low stakes story with zero surprises to get you through a brain fog? Have I got the book for you. Plot: Leena’s sister died last year after a protracted battle with cancer and she has not handled it well. In fact, she’s handling it poorly enough that her work, some consulting company, insists on her taking a paid 2 month sabbatical to get her head on straight. Her grandmother Eileen is also reeling from her husband of 50 years leaving […]

Oh No There Is Only oNe BeD???

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

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CW: mentions of (past) emotional abuse After a series of books that were either meh or abandoned for not being engaging enough to warrant staying up late (a litmus test that is terrible from the perspective of my sleep schedule but very effective), I’m glad to note that this book has broken the streak! Is it that surprising that well-written romance novels tend to break my streaks? Perhaps it is because they are emotion-forward novels where the main characters solve their issues via communication, and […]

Thanks, Beth O’Leary, for making 2020 a little less cruddy.

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

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My 2020 was all about comfort reading. I bought a bunch of well-received mysteries and horror novels and then, when I started reading them, I just couldn’t deal. My brain wasn’t up for anything that wasn’t a happy ending. So I’m glad I discovered Beth O’Leary. Last year around this time, I was in London, and I saw ads for The Flatshare in all of the tube stations and at all of the bookstores. Not knowing anything about it, I bought it, threw it in […]



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