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

Setup to be an Epic Romance that Just Didn’t Do it For Me - The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

“It’s O.K.—you can murder me if you want,” - You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

More Like a Reference Book - The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day by Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler

On one of the covers it says “you will be charmed” but I was not charmed, not at all. - Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You, Sir, Are No Colin Firth - The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sarah Angelini

A Fun, Fluffy, but Also Terrible Read - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Meh. (yes, that’s literally the best title I can come up with for this one) - Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

I Don’t Know How Anyone Calls This Suspenseful - The Doll House by Phoebe Morgan

Crying Out My Safe Word - King Blood by Jim Thompson

The Emerald Circus is multi-faceted but disappoints - The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen

fabricati diem, pvnc - First Watch by Dale Lucas

Too early for Worst Line of 2019? “My boobs looked nice and moundy.” - Spectre by Phaedra Weldon

What the hell. You die. Everybody dies. So you die healthy. So what? - Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell

In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. - The Child Finder by Rene Denfield

All the Tropes, None of the Feels - Hollywood Scandal by Louise Bay

Sorely Lacking Keanu Reeves. One Star. - Dracula by Bram Stoker

Well, I WAS With You - I’m With Fatty by Edward Ugel

What If It’s Me - What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

I mean, I’m incensed by how not good it was? - The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

I Wish This Hadn’t Felt Like I Was Being Sold Snake Oil - WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source by Alisa Vitti

Get your red hot love-bot here - Robot in Love by T. L. McBeth

Bloodstains, Ballgowns, Trashing a Hotel Room - The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

Enticing Cover and Art, but the Writing and Story Itself Could Be Worked More - FLEM by Rebecca Rosen

And now the end is near… - Always Forever by Mark Chadbourn

No. The answer is No. - Ain't She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

All that’s left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has. - The Postmortal by Drew Magary

Mirrors that don’t reflect reality - Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Not only is it the Darkest, it’s also the slowest… - Darkest Hour (Age of Misrule, Book 2) by Mark Chadbourn

Sonnet 43 and a bunch of cows - How Do I Love Thee? and I’ll Love You Till the Cows Come Home by Jennifer Adams and Kathryn Cristaldi

Be You, I’m already taken - Being You by Alexs Pate

America is our gal! - Americans by Douglas Wood

In this story told in rhyme, will our Ninja find the python in time? - Ninja at the Pet Shop by Luke Flowers

Wait, what? - Scumbuster by Tim Winton

There’s more disappointment when you have high expectations - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

Did we go too far this time? - Goodnight Trump: A Parody by Gan Golan and Erich Origen

Nothing more than a conjuror of cheap tricks - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Unfortunately timed (although appropriately titled) memoir - Unqualified by Anna Faris (foreward by Chris Pratt)

There are few things sadder for a reader than a book which lets them down. - Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

Shoulder Shrug – The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers, and Life - The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers, and Life by Richard Russo

Books about books, dance, reporters and scuba diving! - Various books by James Dean, Victoria Kann, Herman Parish

I didn’t love most of this. But I did love one part a whole lot. - From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon

In Which Mother Nature Plays a Character All Her Own - Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge

This book was not for me. Maaaybe it would be for you? - Cherry by Nico Walker

I lack the deep well of literary understanding - Crudo by Olivia Laing

Zombies and the Final Girl and … Cuba? - The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg

Better late than never – Cbr10bingo: Cannonball Book Club - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

I Don’t Care If These Stars Ever Get Charted - Stars Uncharted by S.K. Dunstall

I Was Tempted to Make This Review a Mediation of When Exactly the Likeable Arsehole Line Is Crossed, but Thought Nah, Better Not - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Not for me - The Pisces by Melissa Broder

You’re Trying a Little Hard to be Edgy There - Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

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