Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She really is smarter than everyone else

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

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I have recommended A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas to nearly everyone it feels like. It seems very appropriate to review it for the Gateway CBR12 bingo square. I started reading it last year for Cannon Book Club, but never went back to finish. So I went in fresh with the audiobook to jumpstart my brain and finally finish my paperback copy. Charlotte Holmes is a clever woman who is smarter than almost everyone she meets. All she wants is independence to do […]

The Subversive Power of Choosing Joy

The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan

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Courtney Milan is magic. The Duke Who Didn’t is magic. I love this book. I received an advance reader copy from the author in exchange for an honest review. I sat with The Duke Who Didn’t for almost two weeks after reading it because I had so many thoughts and feelings about it. What I’m left with is joy. This book is about joy and belonging and community, but mostly sheer joy. Before most people knew anything about this book, Courtney Milan tweeted that she was wanted to […]

The first book in a historical romance series set during the Scottish Enlightenment.

Provoked (Enlightenment, #1) by Joanna Chambers

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I should have read this so much sooner! I’ve owned a Kindle version for years now. I guess I was thinking this was more like your standard “historical” romance, with the focus mostly on the romance, and where history often takes a backseat, or gets a bit imaginary (cough Tessa Dare cough). And don’t get me wrong, I enjoy those types of books often when done well. They are a fluffy good time. But there’s something about the style this book is written in, which […]

Another shitty duke not grovelling enough to fully redeem himself

Daring and the Duke by Sarah Maclean

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Official book description: Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of London’s darkest corners. Grace has a sharp mind and a powerful right hook and has never met an enemy she could not best, until the man she once loved returns.   Single-minded and ruthless, Ewan, Duke of Marwick, has spent a decade searching for the woman he never stopped loving. […]

A Bit Mellow for a Smuggling Pirate Heroine

Destiny's Captive by Beverly Jenkins

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Bingo Square: UnCannon I picked this one up because it came up a while back on The Ripped Bodice’s Instagram as a recommendation for one of their summer bingo categories (I am not participating in that bingo, one is enough). I read Indigo a few years ago, and appreciated how well researched and educational it was; since then I have seen Beverly Jenkins comment once in a while on Twitter and have always meant to check out another one of her novels. This one was […]

”My name, since you raise the topic, is Arthur Aloysius Kimberley de Brabazon Secretan. What would you do in my place?” “Leave the country … You poor bastard, you never stood a chance.” #CBRBingo – The Roaring 20’s

Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1) by K.J. Charles

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I loved everything about this. K.J. Charles is honestly spoiling me for other historical romance authors. There’s just something about her style (very detailed, historically accurate, flawed but compelling characters) that gets me right in the pleasure center. She also doesn’t just write in one time period or keep it to straight-up romance. She’s always messing around with spy fiction or mystery or golden age pulp (here and Think of England) or jewelry heists or homages to Georgette Heyer regency fiction. Sometimes many of these […]



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