Prolixity Julien – Page 4 – Cannonball Read 17

Tuck’s Perfection Everlasting

The Goal by Elle Kennedy

November 4, 2016 by Mrs. Julien 3 Comments

In the fourth, but hopefully not final, book in Elle Kennedy’s enjoyable Off Campus contemporary new adult romance series, another university student hockey player and lovely young woman find a future in each other as they move inexorably towards adult lives. Sabrina James has been surviving on ambition, overwork, and very little sleep as she drives herself through her final undergrad year. Determined to make a better life for herself and gain distance from her grinding family life, she is going to go to law […]

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Sweet Girl by Cristin Harber

November 3, 2016 by Mrs. Julien 5 Comments

Cristin Harber’s Sweet Girl is a prequel to her Titan series and its raison d’être is setting up a reunion plot in subsequent entries. Those books will feature a CIA operative and a black ops team member. They are introduced as university students in this contemporary new adult romance, but don’t be fooled. Sweet Girl is the opposite of all those tough-as-nails professions imply. I plan to spoil the story below. From Amazon: Nicola Hart grew up under the heels of her older brother and his sexy […]

Half a Cannonball with a Full Classic

May 17, 2016 by Mrs. Julien 11 Comments

4.5 stars Venetia was my first Georgette Heyer novel which seems odd given my love of the genre and the author’s lauded status in it. I did try to read it once before, but didn’t get very far. This time, I kept going and was well rewarded for my determination. Venetia, as much as almost any romance I’ve read, is about the heroine’s effort and insistence on choosing her own life. Much of the tension in the novel comes from Venetia saying, “I want this,” repeatedly and dealing with virtually everyone else […]

New Adult Romance with a Tatted Lumbersexual

The Game Plan by Kristen Callihan

November 25, 2015 by Mrs. Julien 10 Comments

The Game Plan is the third novel in the Game On series about football players and the women that climb them. I loved this new adult romance. I LOVED IT even after getting annoyed with the author, Kristen Callihan, about her The Pig Becomes a Person plot in The Friend Zone. I loved it so much that it started as a loan from a good friend and I went ahead and bought myself a copy that I have since re-read. Fiona Mackenzie’s father and sister […]

A Change of (Romantic) Pace

October 20, 2015 by Mrs. Julien 1 Comment

Young, rich, and pretty Rose Courteney lives with her stifling family in rural England. When it becomes clear that her path is to marry to please her parents, she takes her fate into her own hands. Just 18, she lies about her age to volunteer as a military nurse in London at the outset of World War I. Gaining experience and skill, she is thrilled to be sent to France to work in field hospitals. Despite this, she is never quite able to fully escape […]

Contemporary Romance with the Sowing of Wild Oats

August 6, 2015 by Mrs. Julien 2 Comments

At one point, I giggled and said, “This book is so much fun.” I am working on a few books from NPR’s Happy Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances and Liberating Lacey is one I selected from the erotic romance section. It was much better than another book in that group, The Lady’s Tutor, which I had the misfortune of reading about two years ago. Lacey of the Liberating was married in her early twenties and spent many years bored with her sex life. Now 15 […]

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Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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