Cannonball Read 18

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When vibe reads aren’t vibing

Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick

The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev A.C. Rosen

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Bingo squares: Left (Phoebe Berman feels Left behind with her 30th birthday and her sister’s wedding approaching) Friends (Disaster Gay Detective Agency follows a group of Friends). This might seem like an odd pairing to review together but it’s basically because I read these somewhat close together and both left me disappointed in a similar way: they were  books I expected to be fun, breezy reads that ended up not being as fun or funny as I wanted and ultimately were a bit tedious, even. […]

The jokes are not the only thing landing punches

Karate Prom by Kyle Starks

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Okay, Karate Prom by Kyle Starks was funny, with the loving and the punching and the bowling. If I have to describe it in one sentence, it is if Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, 1990s teen Nickelodeon, and Scooby Doo made a book baby. Never have I ever thought that ninjas, crazy ex-crime-girlfriends-currently helping her brother run the family-cartelle, teenagers, bowling and a high school prom would be so funny. By the end two things happened that I was very excited about (I won’t say exactly […]

Just like traditional pairings, only poly…..

Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by Tikva Wolf

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Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by by Tikva Wolf, forward by Sophie Labelle    If one is curious about polyamory but wants something easier than a full on text, then this might be the one you need. You will take away from it what you put into it. My personal take was that some things helped me understand the subject, other things I felt made things even more confusing, sometimes I thought she was preaching to the converted, and some comics […]

Goth love

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

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Fangs by Sarah Andersen chronicles a supernatural love story between Elsie the vampire and Jimmy the werewolf. The graphic novel is a series of comic vignettes with a loose linear progression of their relationship. They awkwardly meet and discover they both have “fangs” in common. This was both funny and sweet. They may be monsters, but they’re super relatable. Eventually, they move in together and learn each other’s unique quirks. She can’t be in direct sunlight, a natural goth. He turns into a wolf when […]

Love me, please

Alone Forever: The Singles Collection by Liz Price

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So, I have read everything (I think) Liz Price has written except for the Clarence comic (no idea who that is), Rocko’s Modern Life Volume 2 (no interest in it at all),  Science Comics: Frogs: Awesome Amphibians (but plan on it and hopefully soon as I think it is a cool subject) and  Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1 (seriously no interest at all). Oh, also anything in Spanish like Tomboy.  Or at least I have read what I can find via my store’s search engine.  […]

“Last week I considered going jogging in flip-flops just to remind myself how sex sounds.”

The True Love Experience by Christina Lauren

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StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 25: A book with two authors Felicity “Fizzy” Chen loves her life and career as a romance writer. The problem is that she’s suffering from a bad case of writers’ block, and when she’s asked about her personal life in interviews or author panels, it’s not like she can confess to never actually having been in love, right? A romance writer should surely have experienced romantic love at some point? With all of her friends happily coupled up, she’s also getting […]



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