Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Nart is an avid romance reader who dabbles in other stuff when she has the spoons. When she’s not reading she’s a bureaucrat both professionally and as an activist because she’s a masochist. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Nart's Quick Questions interview.)

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“Her bouts of bitchiness were really starting to grow on him, which just proved how in over his head he was.”

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

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There is just something magical about taking well known stories with timid, two dimensional women that are little more than plot devices and retelling them with a recast woman that has her own motivations and personality. Even when they’re not perfect, they’re still good. Plot: Persephone has been playing the biddable daughter to bide her time so she can escape Olympus and its political machinations forever when her mother all but sells her to Zeus to be his new Hera. The problem is that the […]

If you want a decent generic historical romance novel to get a broad sense of the genre, it doesn’t get more generic

A Duke Changes Everything by Christy Carlyle

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If you like historicals with women doing men’s jobs better than they do it and unapologetically so, this might be the book for you. Plot: Thomasina Thorne has been the Enderley Estate steward for two years, since the passing of her father (who was the steward all her life). The Duke had no interest in the property and was perfectly content to let the staff there sort out things for themselves, and the staff were happy enough with Mina taking over. But when that Duke […]

“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”

Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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It’s a Wonderful Life with parallel lives. Plot: Nora Seed is depressed. Suicide ideation depressed. In a matter of a day, she loses her pretty crummy job, her cat, and a connection to a neighbor she thought was a sort of friend. So late that night, she takes a lot of pills and waits for the end. She closes her eyes and when they open, which is already a surprise, she finds herself in a vast library staffed by her old school librarian. And the […]

“There was no one chance at happiness, no single destined person one either found or spent one’s life missing.”

All or Nothing by Rose Lerner

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There is little I love more than a story about a bitchy, fallen woman and a sweet, kind man that loves her, but when you make her Jewish I’m going to stop being able to be objective at all. Plot: Maggie is running a successful business with her best friend where rich men can come to gamble, drink, whore and whatever else they like. This is a huge improvement on her life previously, so since she has money and safety and relative freedom, she should […]

“I realize your default energy level is Cardboard Cutout, but I can’t get to know you if you don’t speak.”

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

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Can genetics help you find love? Consider me unconvinced. Plot: Jess has had a rough time of it in the love department and between work and raising her kid solo, she doesn’t really have time to date. But there’s a new app on the market that promises genetic compatibility and her best friend convinces her to send in a sample. When it comes back, she’s matched at 98% with the founder, which, like, sus, right? But the company really, really wants to use this as a photo […]

“Hi, I’m Phin Tucker, and I’m inside you. I know how these things slip your mind.”

Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie

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One of my goals for 2022 has been to go back to some of my old romance favourites and see if they’re still good after I’ve read more than a handful other romance novels. Crusie is known for writing punchy dialogue, ridiculous plots, and unabashedly feminist heroines. Ten years after publication (it was published in 2000, which was 10 years ago, fight me) it mostly still holds up. Plot: Sophie Dempsey comes from a family of crooks, but she’s worked hard to be the one […]



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