Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s beautiful because it’s melancholy. It’s a complicated kind of beauty.

Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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I am struggling with getting my review of Jenny Holiday’s Canadian Boyfriend right. I really enjoyed it. It’s a romance surfing on big waves of grief and trauma. For a big chunk of the book Mike and Aurora have a quasi employer/employee relationship that some people will, reasonably, consider a hard no. I want to put all this up front, because it’s important information for readers, and I don’t want my whole review to be about the things that might put a reader off of […]

Gruff Irish farmer > Jealous hockey players

C*ck Blocked (Blockers Book 1) by K.C. Kassidy

Teamwork (Hot Ice # 4) by Lily Harlem

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CBR15Bingo – Picture This block In one book, the main character is a famous actor. In the other book, two main characters are professional athletes. CBR15 Passport: The book is set in Ireland. C*ck Blocked (Blockers Book 1) by K.C. Kassidy Gray, an American actor living in London, is wrapping up his final season as the straight heartthrob of a period television drama. He is happy in London and is mostly comfortable with his lot in life. However, as a next step, he wants to […]

Give me a man who can cook and bake amazing things instead of an athlete any day.

Make It Sweet by Kristen Callihan

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3.5 stars CBR14 Bingo: Dough (the hero is a retired hockey player who bakes and cooks the most amazing food – there is some serious food porn in this book). Lucian “Luc” Osmond was a star hockey player with brilliant career prospects, tons of friends and teammates, not to mention a beautiful fiancee. Then one especially hard tackle has the doctors proclaim that if he continues to play, he’s likely to end up brain damaged or dead. So he has to give up the sport […]

Enemies to Lovers, Hockey Style

Unexpected Goals by Kelly Farmer

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It isn’t that often that I come across an enemies to lovers romance in which the protagonists genuinely dislike each other for legitimate but bridgeable reasons and neither is a terrible person. Kelly Farmer’s Unexpected Goals was a very enjoyable read with two protagonists who genuinely and quite famously dislike each other at the beginning and end with a lovely happily ever after. Maisy Goode and Jenny Donato have had a public beef after an incident in a game between Team Canada and Team USA […]

“The Russian” finally gets “Book Clubbed”!

Isn't It Bromantic? by Lyssa Kay Adams

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Three things in life terrified Vlad. A flare up without a bathroom in sight. Running over an animal with his car. And this. Waking up to find his friends circling his bed, their arms crossed and eyes narrowed in matching expressions of resistance is futile. He was about to get book clubbed. Nashville hockey player, Vlad Konnikov has been a loyal member of the Bromance Book Club since day one and he may be the most hopeless romantic of them all. But he’s been keeping […]

Breaking ice and barriers

Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu

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cbr13bingo Sportsball  This time around Ngozi Ukazu is heavy on relationship status and less focus on hockey in Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Scones. Bitty and Jack now have a relationship that is never totally fleshed out but is presented with the “highlights” of events. Jack has his hockey career, Bitty has his last few years of college, hockey, vlogging, and baking. Yet, the two must deal with the ups and downs of one being openly gay, in a welcoming community and the other […]



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