Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Minor minor league hockey romance. #CBRBINGO – Sportsball

Breakaway (Scoring Chances, #1) by Avon Gale

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 3/30 This was a good time. I was really into it at the beginning, but then the tension sort of fizzled out near the middle. It had a pretty strong ending, though. I’m definitely going to check out later books in the series, because some of the summaries seem like they will be a little more angsty. This was mostly just bantery and fluffy and full of hockey stuff. I almost bumped it up to four stars, but that […]

Escaping for an afternoon

I pucking love you by Pippa Grant

Crazy for loving you: a Bluewater billionaires romantic comedy by Pippa Grant

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Happy escapism and silliness Two books, in different series, but by the same author and featuring brothers as their respective heroes. I started reading Pippa Grant on an epic 40 hour trek from Australia to a farmhouse in France (back in 2019, before the pandemic). I don’t know how that first book ended up on my kindle, but I spent a bit of time in Singapore getting several more onto my kindle before we flew onwards (Brisbane to Singapore is apparently 7 1/2 hours). I […]

Secondary saves the day

Benched by Colleen Chambers

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Benched by Colleen Charles takes place in Duluth, Minnesota, which is evidently black and white Pleasantville, but with hockey. Everyone is clean cut, successful, and preoccupied with whether or not they’re in good with the Chamber of Commerce. Honestly, I didn’t realize local Chambers have as much power in the community as they seem to in Benched. But I digress. Let me circle around back to the beginning. He’s a star hockey player for the Minnesota Caribou. He has major trust issues having just found his fiancée […]

Hit me with your best shot! Fire away…

Puck Me Secretly by Odette Stone

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Y’all. Y’ALL. When I tell you that Odette Stone’s Puck Me Secretly starts off with a BANG of a meet cute, I mean that quite literally. When we first meet Rory, she’s waiting to get on a plane home to Vancouver after being away at college for four years. She’s dreading having to join the family business. Rory’s at the bar in the first class lounge trying to ingest enough liquid cottage to get over here fear of flying. Max sits at the bar two […]

Don’t judge a book by its cover

Griz by Eddie Cleveland

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I’ll be the first to admit guilt: I had zero expectations about this book. The blurb sounded mildly entertaining, a comedic fake relationship romance with a college hockey backdrop. Strike that. I had low expectations. I totally judged GRIZ by E. Cleveland by two things that really shouldn’t have any bearing on the quality of a book: the title, the cover and the fact that it was a Kindle Unlimited selection. Okay, that was three things, but bear with me here. Griz is the name […]

This series is like the ideal fantasy college experience. Acceptance and friends and lots of pies.

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

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Again, read this in April, don’t remember as well as I should. PSA: Always write your reviews within a week of finishing the book! It doesn’t end well otherwise! (Writing this mostly for future Ashley, who insists on being a total asshole in this regard.) It was cute! I remember that. Bitty and the other hockey bros are a good bunch of people to hang out with for an hour or two (these are very fast reads). And this one, if I’m remembering correctly, had […]



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