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CBR Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse, I Love This and Reader’s Choice

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR 11 Bingo- Not My Wheelhouse 99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne I chose a romance novel, Thorne’s The Hating Game, for last year’s Not My Wheelhouse and while I enjoyed it the romance genre floodgates were not opened for me so I chose another kissing book for the same square this year. Darcy Barrett and her twin brother, Jamie, inherited their grandmother’s tear-down of a cottage which has caused some estrangement between the siblings. Their childhood best friend, Tom, has been hired as the contractor to flip the house before sale as well as something of a go-between for the […]

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10/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:102 |

Kissing Books!

Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2) by Helen Hoang

Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

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Kissing books with varying degrees of actual kissing (Ayesha At Last might be the most chaste book I’ve read all year, but it’s still very romantic). Ordered vaguely from least favorite to most. (3 stars) Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid I’m always on the lookout for new Taylor Jenkins Reid, and after I finished Daisy Jones I had a definite hankering. Luckily, Reid published a story I’d never come across before, and it was available free through Amazon. Unfortunately, it was a short story and not terribly satisfying. “It is as if I have lived with a hard […]

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8/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:153 |

Two Narcissists Show They Don’t Understand Love or Relationships

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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Good grief I don’t know who is worse, Darcy or her twin brother Jamie. How about both? Let’s go with both. These two twins who are in their late 20s still have not got the concept of sharing and that you can’t “own” another person. Darcy is the main character in this one and her first person point of view was aggravating as hell after a while. I think we are supposed to like Darcy’s blunt ways. But honestly she was a jerk and I personally don’t like people that push my buttons in order to get what they want. […]

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8/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:204 |

Basically the Same Response As Everyone Else Had

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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Unfortunately, I am not going to add too much to this review that hasn’t already been said in other reviews on CBR.  The fact that I read in May definitely doesn’t help either because a lot of it has purged itself from my head. I think one thing already that didn’t quite work for me was the narrator choice – the entire novel is first person point of view from Darcy Barrett, and I tend to prefer third person alternating views for romance novels.  I think I have read one or two that I liked that weren’t like that but […]

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8/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Second time a charm?

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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I, like many many other Cannonballers lived for Thorne’s debut novel, The Hating Game. I’ve re-read it several times, and it will be a permanent favourite. So when Thorne released her follow-up novel, it was a no-brainer for purchase. I had really really high hopes that this would measure up to The Hating Game’s standards, but it just wasn’t the same for me. Darcy Barrett has always held every man in her life to the benchmark set by her childhood friend, Tom Valeska. He’s the one who got away, her forever ideal man. Her problem is that her twin brother […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

99 Percent Mine

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game. It had that sexy back and forth, love-hate thing going. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a lot of fun, plus nicely steamy and romantic. So it comes as little surprise that I would be excited for Thorne’s newest book, 99 Percent Mine. The sad reality is that I’m not that into this book. Our heroine is Darcy Bennett, bartender and former award-winning photographer. Darcy is one of those rebellious young ladies who acts first and thinks second, someone who tends to leave the country when things […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

I am a liability.

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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I read and loved “The Hating Game” based on many great reviews from fellow Cannonballers. I snatched this one up as soon as I saw it on the new book shelves at the library. It’s the perfect summer book and I devoured it in a few sittings out in my garden. Darcy and her twin brother, Jamie “adopted” the boy who lived across the street, Tom, when they were eight years old. Their close friendship has lasted into adulthood with Tom providing a much needed buffer between the two fairly pig headed siblings. Out of undying gratitude for providing him […]

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6/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Better luck next time

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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2.5 stars. Oooh, I really wanted to like this one so much more than I did. I, like many other Cannonball readers, LOVED The Hating Game a few years ago and had high expectations for 99 Percent Mine. I don’t really regret reading it because it’s at least an interesting flop, it just never gelled for me. Darcy Barrett is a pretty great character. She’s traveled the world gathering oodles of life experience and moonlights as a biker bar bartender to earn extra money aside from her photography career that seems to have stalled. She was exceptionally close to her […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |


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