Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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This is not a romance. This hero is not romantic.

Managed by Kristen Callihan

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Can we all agree that the bad boy redeemed can be a problematic trope? Confusing a romantic bad boy with an abuser probably goes back farther than Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff, but he’s a good example. Kristen Callihan’s Gabriel Scott is the knock off Heathcliff here. I am the Anne Bronte. I am not sure why I bought this the minute I had coins in my pocket. I didn’t love the first book in the series, and I really didn’t like Gabriel Scott, aka Scottie, our purported […]

The Flowers are just Weeds

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Two different podcasts I listened to talked about this book and the two made-for-TV movies based on it.  I’d never read it. I do like to read books that are generally considered “terrible” or “so bad it’s good” and I know so many people who like (if not love) this series. People? Can I ask you? Why? I was reading the ebook and I made it to 49% of the way through and had to stop. I was bored and irritated. I didn’t care about […]

An affront to everything that makes books good.

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I can’t remember the last time I have not finished a book. I don’t know that I have ever not finished a book. But I did not finish this one, Cannonballers. This book was very similar to the entire Fifty Shades trilogy which — lest you wonder — I did finish. I read up to page 111 of The Sweet Spot, and I will spoil the content that happened up to that point, which shouldn’t upset you because you will not want to read this […]



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