Black romance – Page 2 – Cannonball Read 17

Finding love through doggos

A Walk in the Park by Rebekah Weatherspoon

December 31, 2023 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I love all of Rebekah Weatherspoon’s books and dogs, so already biased to love this contemporary Black romance about a couple meeting at a dog shelter. Andre and Janelle unexpectedly meet when trying to rescue the same dog named Zeus. They both want a dog to bring some joy into their lives. There has been a mix-up and they were both promised the pup. Instead of fighting over him, they decide to co-parent for a month and see how it goes. What a lucky dog […]

An adorable YA romance from Talia Hibbert

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

December 31, 2023 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

For our Hot Fun in the Summertime Cannon Book Club, we read Highly Suscipious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert. I also read it for Happily Everyone After book club at The Ripped Bodice. This was Hibbert’s first foray into YA/Young Adult romance. Published by Joy Revolution, an imprint run by Nicola and David Yoon, they strive to publish diverse stories that celebrate joy. We meet Celine and Bradley in their last year of high school. They are both overachieving Black British teens whose families are […]

It didn’t matter how much of her back he was seeing in the moment, progress had been made.

Play to Win by Jodie Slaughter

June 16, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I love this book. It is a love letter to Southern Black communities and the people in them who keep each other afloat. Who hasn’t dreamed of what they would do if they won the lottery? Who hasn’t dreamed of being able to not worry about bills and make sure their people don’t have to worry about them either? Miri starts the book broke, digging a hole in the ground so that her elderly neighbor can bury some extra cash. She lives with her mother […]

She’d worked so hard to deserve the goodness of her life now, but accepting it was something else entirely.

Single Dads Club by Therese Beharrie

May 24, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Therese Beharrie’s Single Dads Club is a messy (in a good way) slow burn romance with two people trying to build new lives for themselves and be better than their parents, while prioritizing Rowan’s new born son. Delilah and Rowan have each ended up in Sugarbush Bay after significant upheaval in their personal lives. A few years earlier, Delilah’s mother was convicted of bilking her middle class clients out of their life savings. Delilah fled to her older brother in Sugarbush Bay and has been […]

Three more reasons you should be reading Katrina Jackson

Sabbatical by Katrina Jackson

Layover by Katrina Jackson

Back in the Day by Katrina Jackson

December 9, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I’m always frustrated with my own inadequacies when I try to describe why you should be reading Katrina Jackson’s books. Good authors have a voice and that voice brings the reader into their story and characters in a way that is unique to them. Jackson’s voice put me into her characters and worlds in a way that is very her and so satisfying. One of Jackson’s primary concerns is the interior life of her main characters, usually the woman at the center of the story. […]

He looked at her with wonder, as if he’d seen an undiscovered ocean meant only for him to explore.

Witchful Thinking by Celestine Martin

September 19, 2022 by Emmalita 3 Comments

A couple of years ago I read a charming witchy Yuletide short story in the first Love All Year anthology. The author was Celestine Martin and I kept an eye for her name. When Witchful Thinking popped up on NetGalley, I snatched it up. This is Martin’s debut novel and it is charming. It’s imperfect, it dragged a bit in the middle, and it took Alex an annoyingly long time to get himself together. That said, it was a lovely read with pluses that outweigh […]

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