Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“How is a brussels sprout concentrated?” “Well, it’s basically a really intense cabbage.”

While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

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This is going to be a challenging review to write because the emotional payoff in the end is the part I want to write about. I loved it so much. Reading While You Were Seething is like watching a volcano. You see the pressure growing, the little bursts where Daisy and Caleb reveal more of their interiors to each other. And then at 90% I’m sobbing because the cathartic eruption has happened and Charlotte Stein has given Daisy the words to say how I feel […]

These characters have SO much in common, but their crippling insecurities may be the worst thing they share

While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

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3.5 stars Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book will be out on April 9th. Daisy Emmett is an excellent PR manager and has successfully managed a number of difficult clients, but trying to repair the image of famous romance author Caleb Miller, after he very publicly declared to the world that “happy endings are for fools”, might be her most difficult job yet. Their mutual dislike of one another started when they were […]

“Seriously, she’d never seen him look so incensed. And she’d once pepper sprayed him in the face.”

When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein

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Describing this as Roy Kent gets his happy ending feels both too shallow, but also too accurate not to use. Plot: Roy-ahem-Alfie is a retired footballer known for being a foul-mouthed, rude, aggressive (and exceptional) player. He has somehow been maneuvered into agreeing to “write” a memoir, since everyone wants inside the mind of the famously private man. Of course, he’s a big dumb dumb, so he needs a ghost writer, and “human cupcake” Mabel is absolutely the wrong person for the job. But also, […]

A Very Horny Ode to Kindness

Dealing With a Desperate Demon by Charlotte Stein

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While I was reading Charlotte Stein’s Dealing with a Desperate Demon, I had a few conversations about the way unkindness is being rewarded socially and politically and how we combat that. And then I would dive back into Desperate Demon and feel wrapped in kindness again. This book is about being kind, being soft, and because it’s a Charlotte Stein romance, being very horny. When Nancy was a child, she wrote stories and things happened. Her father hated the stories she wrote and the things […]

Tale as old as time…

Dealing with a Desperate Demon by Charlotte Stein

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I read Charlotte Stein’s How to Help a Hungry Werewolf earlier this year and was very surprised by how much I liked it. The basic description isn’t something I’d normally vibe with (women falling for men that bullied them due to werewolf mating shenanigans is kind of an ick), but it was actually Emmalita’s review that piqued my interest in reading it. I’m glad I did, because it wasn’t at all what I expected and something about Stein’s writing (it’s very dialogue heavy) really worked […]

“Because I don’t like it when people try to crush something good in the world. There’s too little of it as it is. Too much horrible stuff that people could hate instead. Why don’t they just hate that instead?”

My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I think this will be the last book I read by this author for some time, so take my review with a grain of salt. I love Charlotte Stein’s authorial voice, and this book was no exception. She can also be extremely hilarious, and has made me giggle and laugh out loud in all three books I’ve now read from her. But a couple things that seem […]



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