Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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1 Star Reviews

This is not the myth I was looking for - The Fall of Icarus by Ovid

Not quite Howling Good, but certainly Barking Mad - A Shot in the Bark: A Dog Park Mystery by C.A. Newsome

CBR Fantasy Book Club – Bad book = good discussion - The Devourers by Indra Das

An utter bore - Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

False Advertising, or I Hate Philosophizing - The Devourers by Indra Das

Here’s hoping I never have to read a book worse than this one. - The Dead Key by DM Pulley

Masquerades as a True Christie Book, It is Not - Black Coffee by Agatha Christie and Charles Osborne

Again maybe it’s just unfair for me to review books like this - Oh the Moon by Charlyne Yi

WTF did I just read? A spoiler-filled rant. - More Than This by Patrick Ness

Implausible Drivel - Broken Resolutions by Olivia Dade

I Enjoyed the Ranting a lot more then the book - The Glass Magician by Charlie N Holmberg

If you love Our Lady of Skepticism, don’t read this. - Devil's Advocate (The X-Files: Origins, #2) by Jonathan Maberry

Woefully Underdeveloped - All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

Young & The Restless: Ratchet Edition - The Heart Don't Lie: Jewels' Dilemma by Yasheca Lasha

Boo to Young Love - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Good God What is This Piece of Sh*t?! - Good Boy by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy

Well, the cover’s cool, but as they say… - Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix

When Darkness Yawns - When Darkness Comes by Alexandra Ivy

Something Like… Like… Like I Just Don’t Get the Appeal - Something Like Summer by Jay Bell

Perhaps I Am Not the One Who Is Broken - The Rules of Scoundrels Series, Books 1 & 2 by Sarah Maclean

Romance is Not for the Faint of Heart - Midsummer Magic by Catherine Coulter

Maybe You’re A Virgin Because You’re A Jerk? - Losing It by Emma Rathbone

This Trope Needs to Die - The Wyndham Legacy by Catherine Coulter

Making a book convoluted does not hide the fact that it’s shitty - The hypnotist by Lars Kepler

I Am Plain, But Still Stuck - The India Fan by Victoria Holt

FFS WHYYYYYYYYY - Heartless by Marissa Meyer

Natural Born Rage Inducer - Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

First DNF of 2017 – Release the Doves! - Thin Love by Eden Butler

An oldie but a goodie? - Without Prejudice by Andrew Rosenheim

A Nazi, a Fascist, a Communist, a novelist, a countrywoman, and a Duchess walk into a bar-and I don’t know what happened because I didn’t finish the book - The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson

Holly or TSTL Heroine - Holly by Jude Deveraux

I did like the turtle’s name. The rest was a flaming turd. - Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick

An Exercise in How Not to Write Post-Apocalyptic Gender Segregated Societies - The Gender Game (Volume 1) by Bella Forrest

I Just Can’t Do This Anymore - My American Duchess by Eloisa James

Degrees of Freedom: The Metrozone Series, Book 3 - Degrees of Freedom by Simon Morden

Never meet your heroes, and never reread your childhood favourites - Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz

What Have I Done to Deserve This? - A Virtual Soul by Kevin Teixeira

Misogyny Masquerading as Erotic Romance - Their Kidnapped Bride by Vanessa Vale

Another romance that doesn’t exactly know how consent works - White Lace and Promises by Natasha Blackthorne

Did Lisa Kleypas Need the Money? Did Her Publisher? - I Will by Lisa Kleypas

Contemporary Romance Bullsh*t - Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh

A Not-So-Perfect Fit - A Perfect Fit by Heather Tullis

This is not a romance. This hero is not romantic. - Managed by Kristen Callihan

The Reason I Won’t Complete the Cannonball This Year - A Gambler's Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem

Spoilers Then Annoyances for a Kissing Book - A Stone in the Sea by A.L. Jackson

Confusing, Convoluted, Conservative - Into Dust by B.J. Daniels

Never trust a book by its cover… - American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis

“He had hands like a marmoset, small and neat” - Jack McClure Series by Eric Van Lustbader

The Flowers are just Weeds - Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews

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