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

A stripper with a heart of gold (and a cape to match)… - Rumor Has It by Tami Hoag

Another “Catcher in the Rye” - The Changeling by Joy Williams

How to Suck All the Life Out of Original Worldbuilding - Arcana Rising by Kresley Cole

Wrath and Frustration or Austen Mishandled - The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg

In which I spurn the vox populi, and try to find a light in the darkness - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

I want my 25 cents back - Abduction by Robin Cook

Mary Jane-ing the Pacific Theatre, one atoll at a time - Never Too Old to Cry by D. G. McWilliams

Is It Me? - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

I give you Liane Moriarty and this is the thanks I get. - The Girl Who Came Home by Liane Moriarty

Pigskin and Broken Limbs - The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder

I really don’t care where the sky is at this point. - The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

“I learn things late–and only the hard way.” - The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy

Do literally anything else with your time - The Cartel by Don Winslow

Don’t Answer - Beckoning Souls: A Horror Story by J. R. Tate

This is the review where I use the A word a lot. And d-bag. I use that a lot, too. - Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I finished this so long ago, I can’t even think of a clever title - The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hern

A Dumpster Fire of a Romance - No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean

Free Thoughts on the Continental… oh, wait, on The Marriage Plot - The Marriage Plot by Jeffery Eugenides

No. - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Only So Much YA Wish Fulfillment I Can Swallow - Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Chernobyl in book form - Rock Chick Regret by Kristen Ashley

Short and Sweet (or NetGalley, I love you but you’re bringing me down) - Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger

Hated this Textbook - Literature for Today's Young Adults by Alleen Pace Nilsen, James B. Blasingame Jr., Kenneth L. Donelson

Straining Even Kissing Book Credulity - Home for Three by Nicole Stewart

What’s my niche again? - Sleeping With the Wolf by Maddy Barone

With Thesaurus Assistance on Synonyms for Trite - The Way You Look Tonight by Bella Andre

LightBoringer - The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

What in the world did I just read? - Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving

A giffy live-blog of a wet turd - Stranded with a Billionaire by Jessica Clare

Uninspired, unlikable, unbelievable. - Unraveled by Courtney Milan

Julien-Shaped Shrug - Heart-Shaped Hack by Tracey Garvis Graves

Nooooooooooooooope, nopenopenopenopenope - Ice by Sarah Beth Durst

When I ignored my strongest feelings out of a misguided obligation to fairness, I had no feelings left - Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas

A Book Without Character(s) - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

This book should be called DUNCE Road - Dune Road by Jane Green

What a Waste of a Bearded Hero - Noah by Cara Dee

It’s all fun and games until someone gets waterboarded. Or raped. Or murdered in a snuff film. You know what, fuck it. - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

If Donald Trump was an alcoholic frat boy who wrote a book. - Assholes Finish First by Tucker Max

Flames…FLAMES…on the side of my face… - The Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff

Or Whatever - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Dolph Kids 4 life - Love, Lattes and Angel (Mutants #3) by Sandra Cox

Not much of an inferno…more like a sad circle of hell - Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard

Sweet, merciful Jesus, what a dumpster fire: A real-time review of Tales of a Female Nomad - Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman

This Review Contains a Mic Drop - Play by Holly S. Roberts

Test Tube Mutant Baby - Love, Lattes, and Danger (Mutants #2) by Sandra Cox

Swedish Fridges - The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg

Memoir. Fashion. Not for me. - Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington

I Hope People Don’t Describe Me Based on My Moles (PLEASE) - After the Storm by Jane Lythell

I knew better, I really did. This is absolutely a typical Anne Bishop book. - Written in Red by Anne Bishiop

Stumbling towards completion - The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

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