Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

No real reason for this three star review, just not my cuppa, I guess.

40-Love (There's Something About Marysburg, #2) by Olivia Dade

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Sometimes you just meet a book you don’t really click with and there’s not a reason for it, it just is. I think this is one of those times! I had a perfectly fine time reading this book, but I was never compelled by it. The stakes, for me, felt too low. This was especially sad because my fellow reviewers who have read this have loved it nearly universally, and also because I loved loved loved the first book in Dade’s Marysburg series when I […]

Didn’t work for me, but I think that’s my problem.

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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I needed a break from The Wheel of Time. I know Olivia Dade has been getting a lot of reviews over the last year, so I thought I’d give this one a shot. I told my wife about the book, and she downloaded it from Audible. I’ve had a few semi-successful forays into the world of romantic novels, and I haven’t really found them to my liking. Some I’ve really liked, others have left me reeling with indifference. I think, generally, I tend to fall […]

Book drunk narfna makes a decision.

Teach Me (There's Something About Marysburg, #1) by Olivia Dade

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Last Night: I kinda want to slap five stars on this but I’m book drunk so I will wait for the morning. Full review later. This Morning: Fuck it, I’m doing it. Five stars (rounded up from 4.5). But I do wish you to know that objectively it is more like a four star book, but it did so many things that I personally love that I just have to bump it up. So, you can pretend this is a Goodreads Four Review with an […]

Spoiler Alert: I’m not the target audience for this book

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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I don’t read many romance novels, but after reading a few reviews for Spoiler Alert here on Cannonball Read, I just had to give it a go.  April Whittier is a thirty-something geologist in Sacramento who writes Gods of the Gates fan fiction under the name Unapologetic Lavineas Stan. When a picture of her in Lavinia cosplay goes viral on Twitter, Marcus Rupp-Cutter, the actor who plays Aeneas in Gods of the Gates, defends her against internet trolls and asks her on a date. April […]

“It’s as impossible as perfecting my jambalaya-cheesecake fusion dish!”

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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Fluff perfection. Plot: April is a geologist and fan fiction author for a popular TV show. In a quest to live more authentically, she shares a picture of a cosplay outfit she created for her favourite character on Twitter. Being a curvy lady, her image goes viral. One of the people who notices is one of the main actors on the show, who wades in to fight off the fat shaming bullies and as a show of support, as her out on a date. Also, […]

Spoiler Alert: This Book is Nothing but Fun & Sexy Times

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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Ooh, boy.  Buckle up, Buttercup, it’s about to get steamy in here. April Whittier, geologist, is a competent, brilliant, funny, lovely woman who has a serious job in Sacramento with a burning secret: she writes FanFic for her favorite show “Gods of the Gates,” a mainstream and wildly popular adaptation of Greek/Roman mythology.  April has gone to great lengths to compartmentalize her real life and online life, but decides to make a change, moving her to the more open and accepting (?) area of Oakland/Berkeley, […]



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