Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“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. […]

I love discovering new romance authors

Love at First Flight by Janine Amesta

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Nowhere Books Bingo 2025: Book Dedicated to a Parent Thank you to Janine Amesta for granting me this ARC. It has not influenced my review, my opinions are my own. Thank you also, Emmalita, who tipped me off about this author. Selah Moreno’s beloved stepfather always wanted to be an airline pilot, but couldn’t become one for a number of reasons. So he flew hot air balloons instead. Selah trains to become a pilot instead, but when her father unexpectedly dies, and her mother and […]

“If he thought he could make her doubt her decision with a staring contest, he’d never been in a middle school classroom.”

Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

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One of the things I love most in good romance writing is when authors let themselves really play in the arena of observations about the ways in which we all cope with our varied emotions. When things are really clicking Romance books become case studies in the human condition – just like all my other favorite writings across various genres. Birding with Benefits walks the line between doing that well, and being great at it – which is why I landed on a 3.5 rounded […]

Perfectly pleasant but could have been more

A Love Like the Sun by Riss M Neilson

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Why is that some books make you unfairly overthink when other very similar ones don’t? Does that mean something else is going on in the reader’s life to make it stand out more? Is it one of those where it’s been building for a while from reading certain novels and this is the one that broke the camel’s back or is it that this author maybe highlighted it too much and made it hard to ignore? Or maybe it was a combination of the three. […]

How are these characters not obese and suffering from malnutrition?

The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

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Buzzword Title Challenge 25: Event Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Food or drink Maddie and Theo are both best friends with Alexa (from The Wedding Date). Despite what the blurb tries to tell you, they are not enemies, they just dislike each other because of some unfortunate first impressions. Maddie thinks Theo is a pompous nerd who looks down on her for her career choice, while Theo thinks Maddie is shallow, fashion-obsessed and mean. After a night out, they drunkenly kiss each other and end up […]

“I’d take a racoon to the face for you any day, Rose Evans.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Transportation Doctor Fionn Kane is doing just fine in the little Nebraska town he retreated to after leaving his promising surgical career and ex-fiancee behind. He doesn’t really want anything to do with the past-times of either of his brothers and is keeping his head down, running and working out when he’s not working in his small medical clinic or the hospital. He also crochets. Then a beautiful woman with a severe leg injury ends up nearly unconscious on the floor […]



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