3.5 stars. After seeing all the positive reviews on CBR for this little romance book, I had to check it out to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out you all have great taste (this wasn’t a surprise). I hadn’t read much contemporary romance until this past year, but this is a good addition to my ever-growing shelf of fun, modern romance. Act Like It centers around Lainie Graham and Richard Troy. Lainie is a stage actress on the rise performing in the […]
So this is what it feels like to match wits with someone at your level what the hell is the catch
I first have to thank Malin (and so many other Cannonballers!) for reviewing this book so well. I’m not sure I would have ever A) come across it or B) read it if I had, if it weren’t for her review. Thank you to everyone who has raved about this book. I loved it and read it (devoured it, more like) as quickly as I could. Act Like It hits on two of my favorite tropes: cranky misanthrope falls in love against his will (I […]
Yet another rave review for Act Like It
Have you ever watched Slings and Arrows? If so, and you found it delightful (although how could you not?!) then this is a romance novel for you! It started off with Ellepkay at the beginning of the year, and after that Act Like It has just snowballed into already one of our most read books of the year on here because yes, it is that fun. It’s a story of London stage actors Lainie (an up and comer) and Richard (actor extraordinaire and all around […]
In Which I Name Drop My Fellow Cannonballers
We have ellepkay to thank for bringing Act Like It to our attention at the beginning of the new year. I am somewhere near the seventh (maybe more?) person to review this one, and we’re all pretty universally in love with this debut author’s contemporary work. Nailing good contemporary romance is not easy. There are so many ways for it all to go wrong, to feel unnatural, or cliché, or any number of other possible problems. What I find myself most struck with (because trying […]
The Hottest Old Curmudgeon in Town
Read this book. When an obnoxious stage actor needs a boost to his reputation which will both encourage business and improve his public standing, his costar is selected as just the right woman to be able to put up with him for the media’s gratification while secretly being rewarded with money for her charity at the same time. There are several ways an author can reform an asshat, but a partner who gives as good as he/she gets is the most fun, as is a reverse Taming of […]
I should have more faith in my fellow Cannonballers
I did not intend to spend my morning reading and reviewing this book. I have 5 other books that need to get reviewed. Very little about this book appealed to me at first glance. I didn’t like the premise, the blurb, the title, or the cover. But it kept getting good reviews from Cannonballers. And then Amazon offered it for $.99, but I still might not have read it were it not for a short expletive filled rant from Mrs. Julien wondering which of her […]