Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The screenwriters writing the rom-com are a rom-com

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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CBR17Bingo: Red (for the red in the cover) I can’t remember now how I found The Rom-Commers (2024) by Katherine Center, but I was probably just browsing my library’s catalog looking for an available Audiobook to listen to on my commute. This was an occasionally fun “rom-com” that played on some of the tropes of the genre for its own purposes. However, this wasn’t one of my favorites because the relationship wasn’t very memorable. Emma Wheeler is a talented writer who lives in the Northwest and is […]

From Tedious to Fine to Enraging

The Love Haters by Katherine Center

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Bingo Square – Green (the leaves are green – I wasn’t originally planning on using this and wanted something even more green but after writing the review and remembering how much I disliked the book, I decided I should at least get a bingo square out of it). I stumbled on Katherine Center after someone reviewed The Bodyguard and have found her novels since to be dependably pleasant reads – Hello Stranger, The Rom-Commers. As a result, I was looking forward to The Love Haters […]

This was sadly a complete dud

The Love Haters by Katherine Center

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2.5 stars Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. Katie Vaughn is worried about being fired, so she lies about being able to swim, and is persuaded to go to Key West to film a recruitment video about the coast guard. There she meets Tom “Hutch” Hucheson, the seemingly perfect older brother of her co-worker Cole, who has not been informed that his brother has weaselled out of filming the video. Katie is also pretty much […]

The Love Haters by Katherine Center

The Love Haters by Katherine Center

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Trigger warning: Body image discussions and disordered eating. This book was provided to me via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Oh geez, I tried to get into this one. Really I did. But it was boring. I just didn’t like it and instead really enjoyed two other romances I read this past week much more. I think it’s just because Center had the character of Katie just doing the Too Stupid to Live (TSTL) thing and I just could not after […]

“There’s something about a kiss that brings all the opposites together. The wanting and the getting. The longing and the having.”

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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4.5 stars Emma Wheeler loves romantic comedies and has even won a contest with one of her screenplays. But with a father who needs around-the-clock care, and a sister to put through school, Emma’s career dreams had to take a backseat. Now her agent has an amazing job opportunity for her, to work with the screenwriter she admires the most in the world, Charlie Yates. However, there is no way she can do the job remotely, she will need to stay in LA for six […]

“Everyone is naked under everything.”

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review.. Okay, now that I’m sitting down to actually review this book, I can no longer remember why I didn’t bump my 4.5 rating up to 5 . . . so I’m just going to do that right now. There. Fixed. (To be clear, this is still a 4.5 until I can re-read, but it’s living so pleasantly in my mind right now and I’m still laughing about the […]



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