Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Let me enjoy my vampire romance nonsense in peace.”

ZomRomCom by Olivia Dade

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“Do you ever read anything serious?” Good grief, Susan. Have you seen the state of the world lately? Let me enjoy my vampire romance nonsense in peace. -Random Facebook meme   The apocalypse is coming! Oh wait, it already happened. A decade ago, Zombies were loosed upon the Earth and they ate a LOT of people. Edie Brandstrup survived, but her parents did not. Now she is a forty-something (yeah!), plus-sized (HELL YEAH!) soap maker, who lives next door to a dude-bro named Chad (Boo!). […]

Better than Mannequin 2: On The Move, but not as good as Kate and Leopold

Her Knight at the Museum by Bryn Donovan

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This is only my second review this year, and it is already November. Depression is a Hell of a hindrance to both reading and writing. I’m bound and determined to get back into the swing of it, though, and sign up for CBR18 next year. Pretty much all I read is romances and true crime, so prepare for an onslaught in those genres. The other week I went to my excellent local library and brought home a stack of rom-coms. This was the first one […]

+2 Charisma

Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce

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This book is a warm blanket; it’s the perfect read before bedtime. Pleasant, hopeful, fun.  Riley is a high school drama kid. In fact, until recently, she was dating the best actor in town. But that has ended. School is starting back up, and now her ex has a new girlfriend. And, to make things worse, Riley is in BIG TROUBLE with her parents. In what is probably the most innocent and cutest reason to get grounded ever, Riley borrowed her mom’s car without permission […]

I’m disappointed

Dom-Com by Adriana Anders

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So…I’ve enjoyed Adriana Anders’ books in the past. There’s a character inconsistency that I just couldn’t let go of. Very early in the book, Grant and Rae meet when she goes to the BDSM club in which he’s a silent partner. She’s a newbie and he ejects a pushy dominant, tells her what to expect from a good dominant, and then they engage in a short power exchange before she flees into the night. On Monday they discover that they work together – she’s the […]

It started out well

First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison

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I found First-Time Caller (2025) by B.K. Borison on my library’s list of popular and available audio books. This one sounded cute and I started it with high hopes. And it started out really well. Unfortunately, I kind of lost interest in the middle and the end of the book. It wasn’t bad, but the characters didn’t seem real, and I didn’t find it very romantic. Aiden Valentine is the host of Heartstrings, a call-in radio show where he dispenses relationship advice. Although he’s not really qualified for […]

“Gods and goddesses above, he was dangerous, but not for the reasons she’d once feared.”

Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

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I was unsure about Olivia Dade’s Zomromcom from the moment she shared in her newsletter that this was what she was working on. I’m not, generally speaking, a big paranormal romance person and certainly a book featuring a woman beginning a relationship with a vampire during a zombie attack certainly falls into that category. But I’ve had great experiences with Dade books previously and was willing to give this one a shot; it certainly didn’t hurt that its bright, fun cover qualified for the Purple Bingo Square.  We begin the story by being dumped into action in progress, and it really hampered my ability to sink into the book initially. Honestly, […]



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