Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Trading Places for New Adults

Trade Me by Courtney Milan

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I read this for Romance Book Bingo: Interracial couple square.  I feel really bad about this, but Courtney Milan’s foray into New Adult Contemporary is not my jam. I almost DNFed this book a couple of times while reading. The two protagonists were not compelling or believable as a couple. The main plot about two 20 year old college students trading lives for a couple of weeks was all over the place. I think the amount of sub-plots also hindered the overall story too. Tina Chen is focused on finishing college so she can go off and be a doctor. […]

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2/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

Utterly forgettable. Read Courtney Milan’s Unraveled instead

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Sophie Darling (sadly nowhere near as awesome as my favourite romance heroine with Darling as a surname) is on her way to a job interview in London and unexpectedly and happily finds herself upgraded to first class. Her joy is somewhat lessened when very handsome, but supremely grouchy Gabriel “Scottie” Scott is seated next to her, outraged that one of the two seats he’s purchased has been allotted to someone. Nonetheless, cheerful and mischievous Sophie decides to try to crack handsome guy’s crabby demeanour (at this point she doesn’t know his name) by both flirting and teasing him and once […]

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12/26/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:126 |

How many romances have you read this year featuring glow in the dark sharks?

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

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4.5 stars Maria Lopez runs a small niche blog where she imagines apocalyptic disaster scenarios and uses her comprehensive knowledge of science to figure out how to best try to avoid said scenarios. While it used to be just a hobby, and the blog wasn’t widely read, recently it’s getting a lot more visitors, and Maria has started getting actual job offers. She has kept her real identity closely guarded, so none of the people offering to hire her know that she’s a woman, working towards her actuary degree. Maria doesn’t really have a lot of friends or family around […]

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12/18/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:120 |

A treatise on the state of women in STEM fields. Plus Romance.

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

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Oh, this book. I thought I had my favorite books of the year all figured out, and then emmalita came around saying the newest Milan was awesome. I really didn’t like the first in the Cyclone series, but I’m trusting of such high praise. And it didn’t let me down. This is story of Maria and Jay. Maria and Jay have actually been friends for years, unbeknownst to both of them, on the internet. They meet for the first time due to a mutual friend in Maria’s brother, and start off terribly. This is hate to love like nobody’s business. […]

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12/2/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:59 |

These are my Fu*k Off shoes.

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

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Courtney Milan has reminded me why she is one of the best romance writers currently publishing. With Hold Me, she has stepped outside traditional romance characters, but tells a beautifuly traditional romance story. Both protagonists are people of color. Maria is Latina and Jay is Thai. Maria is a trans woman and Jay is bi. It matters and it doesn’t. It matters to them as individuals, it does not matter to them as a couple or to the story. The story is a hate to love, but lo! we were in love all along and didn’t know it. Maria and Jay […]

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11/18/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:44 |

“He uses invisible radiation to turn himself into an asshole.”

Hold Me (Cyclone #2) by Courtney Milan

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The trouble with being a Courtney Milan Fan (with a capital F) is that you rate her romances on a scale that exists independently of all other romances. It would be a shifted bell curve, except that you don’t get to actually start her scale at 2 and end it in 6, so you have to pretend that it’s the same 1-5 as everyone else. What this means is that, when you’re grading on the CMS (Courtney Milan Scale) sometimes you like the book, but not as much as her other books, so it’s only a 4 or a 3. […]

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11/2/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:86 |

Cast off the Shackles of Yesterday

The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

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The Suffragette Scandal is the book six in Milan’s Brothers Sinister series, of which I have read none of the previous volumes. The nice thing about romance series is that you can jump in and out of the series without loosing any context. I suspect there was a scene or two that would have been more enjoyable if I’d read the other novels, but I understood this one just fine. All in all, it’s an excellent romance novel and I enjoyed most of it. I think it went on just a bit too long in some spots, and it might […]

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10/17/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:89 |

Uninspired, unlikable, unbelievable.

Unraveled by Courtney Milan

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I don’t think I have the appropriate words to properly convey how disappointed and infuriated I was with this book. In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I only got half way through it before I had to stop reading it else I might destroy my Kindle in anger. That was three months ago, and I finally calmed down enough to skim the last bit so I could write a review. My apologies in advance to fans of Ms. Milan, but I loathed this book. Unraveled is the third book in the Turner Series, and the […]

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6/7/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:7 |

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