Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Signore, it is nothing. Women, they always say they will cut off the balls. It is like when the man say ‘Tomorrow, I will respect you still. It means nothing.”

Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase

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It’s Loretta Chase. There’s a pretty solid floor on quality. This woman is the Swiss watch of romance. Plot: Take one James Bond-esque super spy tired of the game, add one famous courtesan that used to be married to a traitor aspiring to become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain and settle back to watch the fireworks. Classic Chase shenanigans ensue. This book has everything. Adventure, state secrets, fist fights on a boat, a heroine with immense sexual experience that she will not apologise […]

Advance apologies if re-reads aren’t kosher but I did genuinely do so

The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase

Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase

Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase

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It seems so petty to have re-read books that I read literally THIS year but re-read them I did, when I was having a pretty rough time of it in the summer. It makes me so grateful to have finally, finally committed to joining the Cannonball community—I wouldn’t have read these if it weren’t for Malin, and clearly there are many others in that bucket as well. I then went ahead and included a selection of books from these two Loretta Chase series to a […]

A series of 4* romances that I’ve read!

Don't Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Larsen

Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

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Don’t Hate the Player I did not expect to like this as much as I did! It’s a lovely, charming story with engaging lead characters and just the right level of stakes given their relative ages. The story is your classic “I have two lives” hyper focused female lead, except in this case she is both a straight A field hockey type with a tiger mom and a pretty good eSports player on a team that’s one step away from just being called Evil Guys. […]

“We’re of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.”

The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase

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The only thing that tones down an alphahole hero is an alphahole heroine, and this fine fine line is Chase’s sweet spot. The Last Hellion is no different. Plot: Enormous-asshole-with-a-sob-story Vere Mallory has been drinking and whoring and gambling his way through life because the people he loves keep dying so he’s decided to stop loving people. Then he meets Lydia Grenville whose life has been 10 times harder, who is just as stubborn, angry at everything, and prone to get herself into all sorts […]

The journey is the point, not the destination

Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase

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These Chase books are really making me read very quickly, because I have deemed it necessary to read one “normal” book between every one of her delightful tales. That being said, I am sort of at the end of the ones that I’ve stockpiled as being immediately interesting…must regroup. After the wonderful recommendation of Mr. Impossible, my Kindle suggested this novel to me as well. I’ll freely admit to being a bit of a Goodreads snob, and for romance novels I tend to agree with […]

Didn’t even try to visualize anyone other than Chris H as the lead in this one

Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase

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Another Cannonball recommendation by Malin after I expressed how much I liked The Last Hellion! And a shout out to Jen K’s review because yes, Chris H as Rupert. It’s clear that while I enjoy historical romances I really don’t abide period-appropriate restrictions on the heroines. Part and parcel of the enjoyment means having to put up with heros who have a long list of former paramours (and no STIs, magically) and heroines who are hindered by society or petticoats or chaperones and sometimes all […]



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