Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Mrs. Julien's Reviews:

Tough Sledding in a Christmas Novella

Snow-Kissed by Laura Florand

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To sum up: All About Romance Annual Reader Poll Winner for Biggest Tearjerker (2014) Snow-Kissed is the story of a once happy couple whose fertility challenges have left them both heart-broken for their lost children and seemingly unable to reach each other. It’s not a light read, but it was one with a very real sense of grief and pain. Kai and Kurt have lost three pregnancies and each time the recovery became more difficult. Kurt did everything he could to support Kai but, as […]

Convenient Exoticism and a Wedding Night Without Central Heating

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This first book in Mary Balogh’s new Regency romance Westcott series got off to a good start with a great heroine, a play on a familiar romance plot, and a somewhat inscrutable hero. About halfway through, the story lost steam and fell prey to a trope whose day has past. Once again, a toad of an aristocrat has had the temerity to die and leave his estate in disarray as he failed to disclose a rightful heir to his fortune and rendered his own children […]

Spoilers Then Annoyances for a Kissing Book

A Stone in the Sea by A.L. Jackson

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I’m going to start this review with a quick plot summary, move on to a negative expostulation, and finish up with the notes I made while reading. Sebastian (Baz) and his band members are in exile on Tybee Island, Georgia because he beat a powerful business contact “within an inch of his life” for serious non-specified harm done to his brother. Stepping out at night, Baz meets Shea waiting tables at her uncle’s local bar. They fight their attraction for 1.2 seconds… something, something,  I […]

Best Kissing Book of the Year and a Cannonball?!

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

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Here in Kissing Book Corner there’s one book we’ve all been reading and (mostly) heaping praise on. Now it’s my turn to review The Hating Game and I am convinced it is going to be the one of the, if not the best romance I read all year – though I welcome competition – and I have already added it to the “Classics” section on my Romance Recommendations Quick List. The writing is fantastically witty and fresh, the love story sweet, and I have already […]

Tuck’s Perfection Everlasting

The Goal by Elle Kennedy

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In the fourth, but hopefully not final, book in Elle Kennedy’s enjoyable Off Campus contemporary new adult romance  series, another university student hockey player and lovely young woman find a future in each other as they move inexorably towards adult lives. Sabrina James has been surviving on ambition, overwork, and very little sleep as she drives herself through her final undergrad year. Determined to make a better life for herself and gain distance from her grinding family life, she is going to go to law […]

Online Reviews Are Unreliable, As If More Proof Were Needed

Sweet Girl by Cristin Harber

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Cristin Harber’s Sweet Girl is a prequel to her Titan series and its raison d’être is setting up a reunion plot in subsequent entries. Those books will feature a CIA operative and a black ops team member. They are introduced as university students in this contemporary new adult romance, but don’t be fooled. Sweet Girl is the opposite of all those tough-as-nails professions imply. I plan to spoil the story below. From Amazon: Nicola Hart grew up under the heels of her older brother and his sexy […]



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