Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Just Like Magic

Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  So. This was pretty awful. I think at one point I was going to DNF it, but decided to struggle through. I really hate DNFing ARCs I receive unless they really do break my brain a lot. And this one danced on that line throughout. I think there were zero redeeming characters in this (including Hall). I thought this would be a nice romantic comedy and it was […]

So Much Unsaid

You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

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I saw this on NPR’s best books from 2021 and checked it out of the library. I do peek and see how other Cannonballers liked a book before I post my review. In this case because this was on a best books list and I found You Deserve Each Other very meh. This story could have been catnip for me with the terrible interfering mother-in-law. Mine once told my husband before we got married that because I have a “high, flat forehead” I must be […]

Cynical realists need not read further

Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle

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This book made me feel old.  Plot: Maybell has been tossed around all her life. From a precarious childhood to an adulthood where she disappears into the shadows, she’s never really been able to find a home. Then her great-aunt, a woman she hasn’t seen or spoken to in 20 years, passes away, leaving her a mansion that she once spent a summer at. One hiccup, she’s actually left her half the estate – the other half going to her landscaper and personal assistant Wesley. Both […]

Emotionally satisfying and hilarious rom-com

Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle

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After seeing some of my favorite Twitter romance readers rave about Sarah Hogle’s first book, I couldn’t resist picking this one up, even before I read (and loved!) her debut. And wow, while it’s completely different in tone from the first, this is an emotionally satisfying rom com chockfull of tropes – forced proximity, grumpy/sunshine, slow burn, with a cinnamon roll hero. “Somewhere far above the clouds, glittering in stars and nebulae, a neon sign spins leisurely outside a cheerful little haven where everything always […]

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf minus the self awareness

You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

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Your tolerance for Big Misunderstandings peppered with a million small misunderstandings based on poor communication skills will determine whether you enjoy this or not. This book is about the ways in which couples often fail to talk to one another and allow resentment to build until there is nothing left but resentment, and that it is possible to still find their way back to each other. Plot: Naomi and Nicholas have been together for two years and their wedding is a few short months away. […]

I Don’t Care What Anyone Says, This Is Not a Romantic Comedy

You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

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CBR 12 Bingo: Debut I’m still on my kick of wanting to read witty, contemporary romance, but honestly I’m starting to wonder if I have the same definition of “witty” or “funny” as other people. Just like The Hating Game and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, reviewers describe Sarah Hogle’s debut novel You Deserve Each Other as witty, funny, laugh-out-loud, etc. The thing is, witty banter and teasing, or even teasing that goes a little too far, are very different from being mean, and Naomi […]



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