Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Scared Sexy Short Stories

Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood

Falling by Christina Lauren

Spicy Little Curses by J.T. Geissinger

Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon

Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert

All My Boyfriends are Monsters by Kimberly Lemming

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I’ve been dealing with a bad mood and migraine for about 24 hours so I just decided to read these short stories before getting back into anything longer. All in all, just a 3 for the entire anthology. This anthology is dark Halloween romance. I stupidly assumed dark romance means stories similar to A Court of Thorn and Roses, but this just seems more like, these all take place on Halloween (well I think most of them do except for that space one) and there’s […]

A little luxurious wish fulfillment

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

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CBR17Bingo: Green (for the green cover) By now I’ve read a number of books by Christina Lauren*, and they’ve been a little hit or miss for me. But it hasn’t stopped me from continuing to read their novels–always hoping for the best. The Paradise Problem (2024) wasn’t my absolute favorite book from them, but it’s up there and I had a good time. When Anna Green was pre-med in college, she was desperate for housing. A friend of hers hooked her up with Liam “West” […]

“Seems it’s pretty hard to write a compelling book when the reader already knows how it ends.”

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

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The unexpected, highly requested sequel to the Love Equation. Plot: Fizzy is a successful romance novelist who has hit a brick wall, inspirationally speaking. She absolutely loves love, but at 37, she’s only had one real relationship under her belt, and as it turned out, she was the other woman in it. She wasn’t in love, and she is starting to wonder whether she ever will be. So how is she supposed to write about it? So when this cardboard cutout of a Hollywood producer […]

“Last week I considered going jogging in flip-flops just to remind myself how sex sounds.”

The True Love Experience by Christina Lauren

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StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 25: A book with two authors Felicity “Fizzy” Chen loves her life and career as a romance writer. The problem is that she’s suffering from a bad case of writers’ block, and when she’s asked about her personal life in interviews or author panels, it’s not like she can confess to never actually having been in love, right? A romance writer should surely have experienced romantic love at some point? With all of her friends happily coupled up, she’s also getting […]

“I generally want to commit a felony when I see him. I’m not sure that’s a sign of romantic compatibility.”

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

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4.5 stars StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 25: A book with two authors Jessica “Jess” Davis is a single mom who tries to make ends meet doing freelance statistics work, mostly working at a local coffee shop, with her best friend writing her romance novels right next to her. She lives in a small apartment on the ground floor of the apartment building her grandparents manage, and they help her raise her daughter, just as they raised her after her irresponsible mother gave up on Jess. […]

This cute green card plot has very different connotations right now

Roomies by Christina Lauren

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I now feel like I’m wasting time if I’m not listening to an audiobook while I’m in my car, so I’m always on the lookout for a book that will hopefully work well for listening. I’ve read a couple of books by Christina Lauren (two writing-partner friends who smash their first names together to make one author’s name), so when I saw Roomies (2017) available at the library, I figured I would enjoy listening to it. Unfortunately, this one was not my favorite. There were some good […]



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