Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“A fairy tale for a stupid child.”

The Selection by Kiera Cass

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My favorite review I found for The Selection by Kiera Cass called it a “fairy tale for a stupid child.” Kind of harsh? Maybe, maybe not. I’d never heard of this series of books until we were playing a book-related game at my wedding shower/book club where we matched up love interests from different books. I obviously did not recognize “America” and “Maxon”. My friends informed me that the character names were from The Selection, a new, popular young-adult romance novel and book one in a series. I […]

Why do I keep doing this to myself?

The One by Kiera Cass

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I’m sure that many of you have the same habit- once you’ve started reading something you have to finish it. Including a series- if I’ve plugged through a whole book in the series, I’m going to continue to read the rest. Very rarely do I give up, even when I spend more time rolling my eyes than looking at the page. Which is how I find myself writing a review of the third book in this series. The series follows ‘the Selection’, which is when […]

YA version of The Bachelor masquerading as dystopian fiction

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CBR8 Reviews 2-4   Let’s just get this out of the way up front: these books are dumb. I tried, I really did, but man are they painful. So be warned, there shall be ranting and SPOILERS ahead (I’ll mark where the spoilers start later in the post.) America Singer (yes, that’s a name) is a seventeen-year-old girl, the middle of five children of a family of artists. In their society, the family is considered a Five. Ones are the most privileged – the Royal […]

A Continuing Royal Saga/Magic, Hearts, and Paper Dogs

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Two reviews for the price of one! The Selection is one of those series I’m going to have to read to completion. The fifth (and I believe final) book is out in the spring, so in anticipation, and because I needed something light and fluffy to read, I finally picked up The Heir, the fourth book in this royal saga. About 20 years have passed since Maxon’s Selection was completed, and people ain’t happy. The caste system is gone, but there are still riots and people […]

A Very Dystopian Bachelor-meets-The Civil War

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A little free advice from me to you: never work a job with crazy hours. You’ll forever mess up your sleep cycles and end up battling insomnia for years. On the upside, that allows you to blow through three books over the course of two very bad nights at your parents house! The Selection is a series set sometime after World War 4 in a nation that’s the combination of Canada, the United States, and Latin America. They banded together to fight off China and […]

Not as bad as I thought it was going to be.

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ETA: My initial review stated one thing wrong: this is not the final book. THERE IS A FOURTH BOOK COMING NEXT YEAR OH MY GOD WHY ISN’T THIS SERIES OVER YET. I gotta be honest here. I went into this book fully expecting it to be awful. The cover appeals to me on a very basic level (the level that likes shiny and poofy things), but my experience with the last book left me convinced there was no way Cass could possibly write a third […]



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