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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Angry feminist converting a social conservative with reason might be my kink

Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

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This book has been reviewed a couple of times on this site already. Scoota100 was lukewarm on it while Rachel liked it a lot. I’ll go a bit more in detail in this review in case this helps you decide whether to read it or not. The story follows Anabelle, a country gal working as an unpaid maid for her brother. She is painfully intelligent and is bursting at the seams with frustration over the fact that due to an accident of birth, she’s at […]

Beckie peaked in high school, gaslights small town, gets the guy because plot

Well Met by Jen Deluca

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Everything is closed, so enjoy a very long review about a book I hated. Let’s start with the general plot: 25 year old Emily was recently dumped by her boyfriend and lost her job at the bar where she worked. She is aimless and feeling down on herself because she supported said boyfriend through law school and he dumped her as soon as he was out in the world. Fortunately, her (very distant) sister April got into a terrible car accident and needed a full […]

Actual legal accuracy in a historical romance?! What next? Flying pigs?? A Woman President??? Clothes with pockets?!?!

Six Weeks with a Lord by Eve Pendle

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I have no recollection of why I picked up this book. I have never heard of this author and don’t remember reading about the book itself. Still, I’m very glad I did for several reasons. Plot: the plot is pretty generic. Grace’s dad just died. He sucked. To punish her for having Opinions, he effectively cut her out of the will entirely except for a 50,000 pound dowry to be given to her husband, if he is a lord. The family’s sprawling business empire, which […]

Rare character development and expert storytelling

Exile of the Seas by Jeffe Kennedy

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This series is shaping up to be one of the best character studies I’ve encountered in a very long time. I remember being excited about watching the Godfather because people said it was an amazing character study and I don’t understand people at all, so I love character study stories. So I watch the movie (and the second and the third), only to have the character make critical decisions off screen with no explanation. First, the guy hates his dad’s business, and suddenly he’s working […]

What to read if you just want to watch The Mummy again

Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase

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New, of course, being a bit of a misnomer since the book was published in 2005, but if you haven’t read it it’ll be new to you. It is impossible to read this book and not see the parallels to the Mummy. If you haven’t seen the Mummy, stop what you’re doing and go watch it. It holds up and this review will be incomprehensible to you otherwise. The book follows Daphne, one of the most renown language scholars in the world, as she gets […]

Aliens learning how to be human?

Work for It by Talia Hibbert

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Yes, it’s another Hibbert. Look, I put a bunch on hold at the library a few months ago and they all came off the list at the same time, giving me 3 weeks to read them all before they go to the next person. This is actually one of her more popular novels, which is probably the only reason I picked it up. I have weird, unsettled feelings about being a mostly straight woman reading a romance about two gay men written by another woman. […]



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