Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ugly Love

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

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Tate moves in with her brother while she returns to school to earn her master’s degree. She’s not looking for love but meets her brother’s friend and neighbor Miles. They think they have the perfect arrangement with neither looking for anything. They have 2 rules: Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. What could go wrong? At first, all is going well, both are following the rules and have no problems with them. They have to find time to see each other between […]

And I’m back with Colleen again

Verity by Colleen Hoover

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OK so this is the book that started all the Colleen Hoover stuff for me. My best friend recommended it a while ago. My sister started it and bought it for her mother-in-law before realizing what an inappropriate book it was to give to your mother-in-law. I waited for a while for it to be available at my library, but then realized that it was on my sister’s Audible account (through my Amazon account!) and finally listened to it (after suffering through some truly heinous […]

And this is where Colleen Hoover lost me

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

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Hoo boy. In my review for “Without Merit” I spoke of “low lows” related to Colleen Hoover. This is a super low low. I was so angry after reading this book, I typed out my review on my phone probably the minute I was done reading it. Here it is:   Let me summarize this book quickly and (very) spoilery: Two people meet semi cute (their current partners are cheating on them with each other), they fall in love, and it’s a fairytale. Like seriously […]

A Colleen Hoover novel where I didn’t want to strangle everyone

Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

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So I tried out Colleen Hoover in 2022, since many women I liked and respected suggested her to me. There were some low lows (see Ugly Love), but this was a high. I think because the focus wasn’t solely on romance or getting a man, I was more invested. Plus, I didn’t want everyone to die in a fiery car crash, so that helped! Merit Voss is the main character, and she’s pretty quirky. She lives in an old converted church with her family, which […]

Twisty From Start To Finish

Verity by Colleen Hoover

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Six years into her career, Colleen Hoover published the novel Verity. The book opens with an absolute horror scene, and careens from one shock to the next for the duration of it’s 350-odd pages. If you want to be completely startled over and over again, this is the book for you. Verity is ostensibly the story of Lowen Ashleigh, an author who has been recruited to finish a series of novels by the titular Verity Crawford. Verity has become incapacitated due to a terrible car accident, […]

“Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

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A book that has been very, very incorrectly filed under romance. Plot: Lily grew up in a violent household, but now she’s out in the world as a young adult, trying to create a life that is her own, and as different from her youth as possible. By chance she meets a good looking doctor in training and despite his initial aversion to relationships, is suddenly all in. Then there’s her first love, a boy who had escaped an abusive household himself, to live on […]



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