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If you like good romance, just get this book already

The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker

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Disclaimer! I got an ARC from NetGalley. This has in no way influenced my review.  I had already pre-ordered my copy of the book months ago, long before the ARCs became available. Also, because I am terribly late in reviewing it, the book is available on sale from the e-book vendor of your choice. It’s excellent, you should totally spend your monies on it! But what is the book about, Malin? You cannot expect people to fork out their hard-earned cash without knowing anything of the story. So here goes… Frederica “Freddy” Carlton has been a critical darling on the London […]

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5/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

Such a good book, giving me comfort in the (literal) dark times

Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

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This is a re-read of one of my favourites. My original review (which is quite lengthy) can be found here. We’re pretty much in the coldest and darkest part of the year here in Norway now and it gets harder to motivate oneself for anything except hibernation, really. So with an ever more attentive and demanding baby and preparing to go back to work as a teacher for the first time in over a year, I’m not really up for anything very challenging to read in my spare time. Hence the need for comfort reading. As I mentioned in my review […]

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11/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:102 |

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

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A quick search suggests that this book has been reviewed for Cannonball at least eight times already, so it’s not like anything I say about the book is likely to be new or revolutionary (see what I did there). I don’t think there was ever any doubt that I was going to love this book, considering just how much I love the musical. I don’t remember exactly when I first heard about Hamilton, but it’s likely to be early in 2016 (I got this as a birthday gift that year from my best friend, and then postponed reading it until […]

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6/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

Happiness is reading a good romance months before the actual release date

Making Up by Lucy Parker

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Disclaimer! This was an ARC granted to me through NetGalley. It has in no way influenced my review.  Beatrix “Trix” Lane may be tiny, but she also used to be fierce and confident and very ambitious. Until her former boyfriend pretty much broke her down entirely and left her a pale shadow of herself. Now that the star of the fancy acrobatic West End show she’s in has been possibly permanently damaged after a fall, Trix has a chance at the lead role, but she’s no longer sure she’s acrobatic or talented enough. To add to her stress levels, the […]

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2/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

“It must have been like consciously uncoupling from Eyore and eloping with Baloo”

Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

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4.5 stars In her follow-up to one of my favourite books of last year (Act Like It), Lucy Parker returns to the London theatre world, this time introducing us to acclaimed director Luc Savage, who has spent a considerable amount of his time and huge amounts of money restoring a theatre his family has a generations long connection to. He’s planning to celebrate the reopening of the theatre with a prestigious play called 1553, featuring character studies of Mary I, Elizabeth I and poor doomed Jane Grey. Unfortunately, his first choice for Mary I was his girlfriend of eight years, […]

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2/27/2017 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

I Have a Lot of Feelings about “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling and Jack Thorne

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  *Warning: this review features a LOT of Caps Lock and has a tendency to ramble. Buckle up* Back in 2007, we all stumbled home from our midnight release parties and read the final Harry Potter book, racing against the sunrise, desperate to find out how it ended. We turned off our phones and chugged coffee, stopping only for reluctant bathroom breaks. Hours passed, and with three small words, the story that defined a generation ended: “All was well.”   Flash forward a decade. Turns out…all was not well. For those of you who don’t know, “Harry Potter and the […]

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2/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Hamilton Makes a Dent in Modern History

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter

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Please spare me your lack of surprise that I’ve finished Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter’s book chronicling the gestation of the eponymous musical, before having finished the book said musical was based on, Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. They are both big thick tomes spanning years (arguable decades), but while Chernow’s prose is delightful and accessible, his book does not consist of rap lyrics, easily digestible footnotes, and beautiful photos. Like Cannonballer ellesfena, I bought the book because I am an obsessive Midwestern fan, and I’ll take any glimpse of the Richard Rodgers Theatre I can get. The […]

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6/6/2016 's CBR8 Review No:11 |

A contemporary romance set in London. Yay Britishism!

Act Like It by Lucy Parker

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Rising star and current darling of London’s West End, Elaine “Lainie” Graham has to pretend to be passionately in love with and kiss her ex-boyfriend Will Farmer every evening and sometimes for matinee performances. While none of her family really liked him, she was still shocked and upset when she discovered he was cheating on her – by seeing it splashed on the front page of the tabloid news media. Now she’s pretty much sworn off men for a while and is none too amused when the theatre management want her to pretend to be an item with her other […]

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1/21/2016 's CBR8 Review No:4 |


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