Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Book drunk narfna makes a decision.

Teach Me (There's Something About Marysburg, #1) by Olivia Dade

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Last Night: I kinda want to slap five stars on this but I’m book drunk so I will wait for the morning. Full review later. This Morning: Fuck it, I’m doing it. Five stars (rounded up from 4.5). But I do wish you to know that objectively it is more like a four star book, but it did so many things that I personally love that I just have to bump it up. So, you can pretend this is a Goodreads Four Review with an […]

“Choose a new path, a new adventure.”

Wonderstruck by Allie Therin

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I have loved this Prohibition-era paranormal series since the moment we first met Rory, and I was a little worried going in because I knew this was the third and final book. How would the entire situation with Baron Zeppler be taken care of? Whose side are Gwen and Ellis really on? What about the relationship hiccups between Rory and Arthur? And, most importantly to me, would Arthur ever take Rory to his beloved Italy? And yes, all these questions are answered and more. “It’s […]

Second chances with dead bodies, mafia hits and inherited mansions

Second Chances by Chace Verity, Dee Holloway, Leigh Landry, Candace Harper

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Just like it says on the tin, this is an anthology of four wlw second chances romances! I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that while I own books by three out of the four authors, I’ve only ever read one – the absolutely fluffy and hilarious Deal with the Demon by Chace Verity. I feel like this was a great introduction to all of them and definitely had me shuffling things around on my TBR! “So far we’ve got a dead guy and a dog in your […]

Casting couch jokes land a bit differently these days

Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

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I’d actually have rated this slightly lower if I could have, but as is the usual in reviews 2* seems horrific, and I’m well aware that my issues are specific to me and things that I tend to dislike. That thing being mismatched power dynamics, whether in the sense of age (much older man to a younger woman), power (boss/employee, teacher/student), etc. As you can imagine, this book–which has both the age and career issues–was always going to be an uphill battle. At the end […]

Whoops baby, workplace romance, and lots of ASL

About That Night by Laura Brown

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Surprise baby books are not my thing. To be honest, I don’t find much about babies romantic at all and I’m not one of those people who think HEAs have to come with a wedding and 2.5 kids. But I loved Matzah Ball Surprise so I decided to take a chance on this book, and I’m glad I did! Besides the surprise baby, it’s also got the workplace romance and forced proximity tropes. Nine-month-old Archie might be the result of a drunk hook-up with a guy […]

A semi-disappointing read from an author I usually enjoy.

The Sumage Solution (San Andreas Shifters, #1) by G.L. Carriger

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Maybe because this was self-published, but this was one of the most fanficky romance novels I’ve ever read. And that’s not a negative! It was sort of bonkers in the way it just went for it. I liked the first half much better than the second half, though, in that regard. Then it sort of went off the rails at the end. I still enjoyed it, but at least to me, it was obvious this book was self-published. It felt much less polished than other […]



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