Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Much more than super hot, sticky, sweet

Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew Book 9) by Anna Zabo

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So, I read this tweet from our very own Emmalita recommending Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew Book 9) by Anna Zabo because it is a masterclass in setting up the story. It is that. It is also a fantastic example of BDSM romance that is actually safe, sane and consensual while being SUPER sexy. (And BDSM isn’t even a particular kink of mine, so that says A LOT.) Even more importantly, it is a romance novel where the leads actually communicate with each other. I was […]

Full speed rant ahead

Slow Burn by Autumn Jones Lake

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This began as a review of Slow Burn (Lost Kings MC #1) by Autumn Jones Lake, but quickly evolved into something else entirely as I struggled to adequately express my feelings about the novel. Please be patient with me this time around. I find myself having a surprisingly strong reaction to a book which I was “eh” about. I came across Slow Burn when it was recommended to me by Kindle. Strike that. I came across SB when Kindle recommended the NINETEENTH book in the Lost Kings series […]

Break on Through to the Other Side

Now You See Her by Linda Howard

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Linda Howard was one of my top go-to romance authors for a long time, but somewhere along my reading journey she fell to the wayside. I was going through my Kindle library and came across Now You See Her which was originally published in 1998. I decided to do a re-read to see if it held up better than some of Howard’s other books like Mr. Perfect, which I used to love but have since come to realize is very problematic. The answer is maybe? Now You See Her […]

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 […]

Ain’t no mountain high enough

Devoted by Dean Koontz

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I feel like I should preface this review with an admission: I was predisposed to love Devoted by Dean Koontz. His earlier novel, Watchers, is one of my all-time faves, and this one is similar in subject matter: a golden retriever who is more than he appears to be is up against a monstrous experiment gone wrong in a battle of good versus evil. Circling back to my predisposition to love this newer novel, my family has always had dogs. One of them was the […]

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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 […]



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