Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Spoilers Then Annoyances for a Kissing Book

A Stone in the Sea by A.L. Jackson

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I’m going to start this review with a quick plot summary, move on to a negative expostulation, and finish up with the notes I made while reading. Sebastian (Baz) and his band members are in exile on Tybee Island, Georgia because he beat a powerful business contact “within an inch of his life” for serious non-specified harm done to his brother. Stepping out at night, Baz meets Shea waiting tables at her uncle’s local bar. They fight their attraction for 1.2 seconds… something, something,  I […]

Julie Anne Long tries her hand at a contemporary romance. She should stick with her historicals…

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Julie Anne Long has a lot of credit with me. She wrote What I Did for a Duke, which is a top 5 all time, top 3 historical romance for me. It is wonderful and amazing and you all should go read it right now. I’ll write about this mediocre effort while I wait. Ms. Long has decided to try her hand at contemporaries. Her effort is there. There’s some smolder there, but overall it just wasn’t the same. John Tennessee McCord, famous tv actor, […]

Best Kissing Book of the Year and a Cannonball?!

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

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Here in Kissing Book Corner there’s one book we’ve all been reading and (mostly) heaping praise on. Now it’s my turn to review The Hating Game and I am convinced it is going to be the one of the, if not the best romance I read all year – though I welcome competition – and I have already added it to the “Classics” section on my Romance Recommendations Quick List. The writing is fantastically witty and fresh, the love story sweet, and I have already […]

Tuck’s Perfection Everlasting

The Goal by Elle Kennedy

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In the fourth, but hopefully not final, book in Elle Kennedy’s enjoyable Off Campus contemporary new adult romance  series, another university student hockey player and lovely young woman find a future in each other as they move inexorably towards adult lives. Sabrina James has been surviving on ambition, overwork, and very little sleep as she drives herself through her final undergrad year. Determined to make a better life for herself and gain distance from her grinding family life, she is going to go to law […]

Online Reviews Are Unreliable, As If More Proof Were Needed

Sweet Girl by Cristin Harber

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Cristin Harber’s Sweet Girl is a prequel to her Titan series and its raison d’être is setting up a reunion plot in subsequent entries. Those books will feature a CIA operative and a black ops team member. They are introduced as university students in this contemporary new adult romance, but don’t be fooled. Sweet Girl is the opposite of all those tough-as-nails professions imply. I plan to spoil the story below. From Amazon: Nicola Hart grew up under the heels of her older brother and his sexy […]

“He uses invisible radiation to turn himself into an asshole.”

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The trouble with being a Courtney Milan Fan (with a capital F) is that you rate her romances on a scale that exists independently of all other romances. It would be a shifted bell curve, except that you don’t get to actually start her scale at 2 and end it in 6, so you have to pretend that it’s the same 1-5 as everyone else. What this means is that, when you’re grading on the CMS (Courtney Milan Scale) sometimes you like the book, but […]



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