Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A New York lit professor and a playboy European aristocrat fall in love in a romance with not one, but two Christmases

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

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CBR14 Bingo: Holiday (a Christmas romance written by an author called Holiday – boom!) Maximillian “Max” von Hansburg, popularly known in the tabloids worldwide as “the Depraved Duke”, is in fact, merely a baron. He is the eldest son and heir to the Duke of Aquilla, however, and he doesn’t really mind his playboy reputation very much. While in New York to fulfill family obligations and meet a prospective bride that his parents might approve of, he decides to have some fun instead and contacts […]

“There was an existing meddling infrastructure just waiting to be activated.”

Sandcastle Beach by Jenny Holiday

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Accidentally picked up the second in a series before reading the first, but it works fine as a standalone too. Plot: Maya loves her small town so much that when she finished her theatre degree, rather than stay in Toronto and access the biggest opportunities as an actor in Canada, she went home, bought a broken down theatre, and worked her ass off to try and enrich the town’s culture. Only the theatre is even more broken down than she realized, and making massive repairs […]

some out of season books courtesy procrastination

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

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The thing I liked BEST about this book is the length of time the story took: a FULL YEAR, my friends! That’s right, between when this story started and when it finished an entire calendar year (one Christmas to the next, if I’m not mistaken) passes! That’s an entire year of our main characters getting to know one another, becoming friends, getting closer…the stuff that all my romantic dreams are made of. Here in the other corner we have 80% of romance novels, wherein characters […]

A Much Better Holiday Romance Than Love, Actually

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

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I haven’t read any of Jenny Holiday’s books before, but it sounded interesting, so I put it on my TBR and then Goodreads offered a giveaway, I entered, I won, and then I waited for weeks. It finally arrived, just as a cold front brought the temperatures down to the low 70’s. I made some celebratory hot cocoa with oat milk and sipped it while still wearing a t-shirt and perusing Duke, Actually. Max and Dani meet in A Princess for Christmas. Their respective best friends […]

Sometimes you have to open your eyes and jump

One and Only by Jenny Holiday

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Official book description: With her bridezilla friend on a DIY project rampage, bridesmaid Jane Denning will do anything to escape – even if it means babysitting the groom’s troublemaker brother before the wedding. It should be a piece of cake, except the “cake” is a sarcastic former soldier who is 100% wicked hotness and absolutely off-limits.   Cameron MacKinnon is ready to let loose after returning from his deployment. But first he’ll have to sweet talk the ultra-responsible Jane into taking a walk on the […]



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