Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I’d possibly started down the road of caring about him differently. Albeit in a very slow, easily spooked car.”

I You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen

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If it’s a new Skye Kilaen, you know I’m going to read it! While this is set in Austin (and there’s a brief mention of Knockdown), it’s not part of that series. What it is is lovely and emotional friends-to-lovers romance. Look, it says hurt/comfort on the tin and holy crap that’s exactly what you get! Simon’s a larger bisexual guy, pleased to finally be working at a place that doesn’t care about his sexuality. He has two work friends: Mina, who sits in the […]

Aggressively meh

Blame it on the Brontes by Annie Sereno

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I usually love second chance romances and the blurb sounded right up my alley, but unfortunately this one just didn’t work for me. “Find Garland, write the book,” she repeated like a mantra with every strike of a foot against pavement. “Save your job.” Athena’s an assistant English professor given an impossible assignment: find out the identity of C.L. Garland, the author turning classics into erotica (“David Copafeel”), and write a book about it by the end of the year, or her job is gone. […]

Cute doggos, problematic content

The Bookshop Rescue by Rochelle Alers

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While this is the ninth book in the series, I read it as a standalone. There were a couple of references to other couples that seemed like they were referring to previous books, but that was it. And while this has all the cute puppies the book promises, there were other issues that ruined the read for me. “But like the name of her bookstore, Lucy was beginning chapter one of her best new life.” Lucy and Calum both have their own reasons for not […]

“Would he see me, or himself, or both of us, or neither of us?”

Book Boyfriend by Kris Ripper

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First off, this cover is so eye-catching and gorgeous! I’ve read several of this author’s books before and was very interested in zir take on a friends-to-lovers romance. While this book wasn’t quite what I was expecting, it was a very fulfilling (and hilarious) romance. Preston’s been pining over his best friend Art since a drunken kiss in college. So when Art breaks up with their latest partner, of course Preston offers them a place to stay. But every time Preston imagines telling Art how […]

‘Do you want the real answer to that? Or the one that’s going to keep everything the way it is?’

Finding Forever on Their Island Paradise by Therese Beharrie

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Therese Beharrie’s books always melt me into a pile of heart-eyed goo. They bring the feels, the humor, and the tenderness, and always leave me with a smile on my face! All Morgan wants to do is help her grandmother host her wedding on Penguin Island, where she’s lived for most of her life. If only that pesky rich developer who’s bought the community would listen to her compromise! While Elliott barely gets along with his family, when his brother asked him to take over […]

Adorable, funny polyam road trip romance

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen

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The first book of this author’s I ever picked up was Get it Right, the first in this series, and that prompted me to binge, uh, pretty much everything else by her. So of course I was ridiculously excited for the next book in the series and even more excited when I heard it was a polyam road trip romance! While this is the second in a series, it can easily be read as a standalone. After getting fired from her job, the last thing […]



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