Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Love in Masquerade

My Only Valentine by Victoria Henshaw, Julia Parks, Donna Simpson

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Three couples in Regency England find their way to each other through various Valentine’s Day related events and hijinks. In “The Valentine Poem” by Victoria Henshaw, Susan Kimball falls in love with her Italian tutor, little suspecting that he is actually a nobleman undercover. This is a cute romance with little plot, and I liked the relationship between John and his half-brother the duke. However, Susan’s bleak moment seemed very illogical for a generally logical heroine – it really should have been timed for before […]

When you’re surprisingly okay with the Big Deception

The Marquess Makes His Move by Diana Quincy

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I bounced off the first book in this series HARD. I hated to do it, because I was enjoying myself, but the conflict was too much for me: A man and a woman have an intense connection at a roadside inn. The next day they discover that he is courting her stepdaughter. I’m sure everything turned out fine, but I couldn’t get over the hurdle of that kind of conflict. Would he continue to court her? Would the truth out in some horrendous way? I […]

It was difficult to cry and subject one’s sister-in-law to a withering look at the same time.

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

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And Viola, helpless in the face of a desolation that felt like rage, swept on, “Never taking no for an answer. Always thinking you can fix everything and everyone. So endlessly convinced you know best.” “But I usually do know best,” offered Lady Marleigh in a small voice. “You know nothing” – Viola’s voice rose in a wild shriek – “You know nothing of me.” “I know – that you are family. And I know that I want you to be happy.” Viola Carroll is […]

CBRBINGO – IN THE WILD: “‘You can’t just not do things acause of the consequences.’ ‘Consequences are literally the reason not to do things. That’s what they’re *for*.”

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1) by K.J. Charles

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Books 15/30 I feel like this is one of those books I will re-read and then instantly bump up to five stars, but for now I’m leaving it at 4.5 rounded down because those are just my feelings right now. Despite the subject matter (smuggling! hiding things in swamps! thievery! treason! murder! leaving people to drown! worse things I don’t feel comfortable putting an exclamation mark after!), the relationship between our two main characters, Sir Gareth Inglis and […]

Lovely and Charming Christmas Novella

Some Winter's Evening by Erin Langston

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This was a lovely and charming sequel novella to Erin Langston’s Forever Your Rogue. If you haven’t read Forever Your Rogue yet, you really should. You will understand Gavin’s reluctance to endanger Emilia’s reputation, and if you enjoy a man who falls head first into love and domesticity, Nate is that in spades. Gavin Sinclair is Cora’s brother, the barrister who worked tirelessly on her suit to reclaim guardianship of her children from the relatives intent on bleeding her son’s inheritance dry. Since succeeding on Cora’s case, […]

The boldly feminist historical romance you need

The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham

Portrait of a Duchess by Scarlett Peckham

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The second installment in Scarlett Peckham’s Society of Sirens came out this week!! And it was excellent!! And I think everyone should read this series!! I would love to leave this there, but there’s this word count I’m supposed to hit for this to count, so I suppose I’ll give y’all a little more. This series is about “fallen” women who have decided to accept, embrace, and use their tarnished reputations to improve the situation for all women. The heroine of the first, the Rakess […]



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