Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She’s Not That Kind Of Goat

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

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This is the third of the Girl Meets Duke novels, which involves a group of four eccentric women friends.  Penny has already been introduced as the vegetarian animal lover who makes horrible sandwiches with meat substitutes. This one was a delightful and ridiculous romp in usual Dare fashion, and I preferred this one to the previous novel in the series (I liked the heroes in The Governess Game, but not the some of plot points). A self made man, Gabriel Duke, has bought the property […]

And That Would Be Enough

Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole

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Bingo Square: The Collection I originally downloaded this about a year ago because I wanted to read the Courtney Milan novella before going to see Hamilton in New York again.  However, I didn’t quite get around to the other two, and Bingo seemed like a good opportunity to go back and read the entire collection. The collection kicks off with Rose Lerner’s story, about a young Jewish woman disguised as a man fighting for the Revolution.  It’s the eve of the battle of Yorktown, and […]

Return to Form

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah McLean

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This novel has been sitting in my Kindle since it came out last year, and since the sequel came out this month, I decided it was time to finally read it.  I didn’t start reading romance until the late spring/early summer of 2015 (I had tried a book or two before), and along with Tessa Dare and Lisa Kleypas, Sarah McLean was one of the authors that got me hooked – in the case of Dare and McLean, I started with the bookish heroines mixing […]

A historical romance with ice smugglers (bingo)

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah Maclean

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#CBR11 Bingo: History Schmistory (set in the Victorian era) On the eve of her twenty-ninth birthday, Lady Henrietta “Hattie” Sedly, aided by her best friend Lady Eleonora (Nora), the daughter of a duke, is planning on going to an exclusive brothel in Covent Garden catering to women. She needs to lose her virginity, so her father will stop trying to pressure her into marriage. Firmly on the shelf, Hattie has discovered that despite a generous dowry, no one actually wants to marry her. She’s too tall, […]

Great Historical Romance That Has Me Wanting to Read More About the Servant Class in England

Listen to the Moon by Rose Lerner

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So this was a romance buddy read with WhiskeyintheJar/Kyraryker and Sam (AMNReader). The three of us I think all really enjoyed this though Sam is still finishing up. I really loved the entire plot (a marriage of convenience) with heat. The two main characters, Sukey and John were great and I loved how they did things differently though they were both part of the servant class. The sex scenes were highly explicit, but very very hot, I loved them and liked that we actually had these two trying […]

I might struggle and freeze, but if I have to crawl to reach the truth, I will.

The Bewildered Bride by Vanessa Riley

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I received this as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Vanessa Riley writes diverse romances set in Regency and early Victorian England. As she says on her website: Yes, Black People existed in the Regency. In London there were over 10,000-20,000 that lived in London during the time of Jane Austen.  The number has been estimated to be as high as 30,000 across England, Scotland, and Ireland. So with less than 28 dukes during that time period, who are you more […]



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