Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Epic Romances Rarely Start With a 5 Year Stiffy

Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole

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Am rereading the entire IAD series so I can follow along with the insightful Fated Mates podcast by the delightful Sarah MacLean and Jen Prokop. Ironically they didn’t cover this one (or will later for reasons) so the jokes on me. This is a spoilery discussion of the book more than a proper review, so ye be warned. Myst is a valkyrie warrior, who in this world, all tend to have a special super power. Myst’s super power is using her sexuality to manipulate men. […]

Empathy Served With a Slice of Pie

all that she can see by Carrie Hope Fletcher

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I finished all that she can see by Carrie Hope Fletcher on a plane, January 1, returning from a holiday trip to London. This review isn’t about the trip, but yes, it was lovely. I received this book as a gift while visiting my dear friend in Manchester. “This looked like your kind of read,” she said, “and you need to escape a bit” (or something along those lines, allow me some literary liberties). And it is! The first half, anyway. A deeply empathic baker, […]

It feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears.

My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

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I’m so torn on this book. I was all set to rip into it for not being the book I wanted it to be, which was a story about a young American woman’s lighthearted romp through the English countryside while she led a Harry Potter-esque existence (keeping the book magic, losing the outright magic) during her tenure at Oxford. Who wouldn’t want to live vicariously through such a character? This is what I got for the first half of the book. Ella arrives in England […]

Jake Ballard (not that one) is a terrible boyfriend

Rock the Boat by Rachael Herron

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I received an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is the third and final installment of Rachael Herron’s Ballard Brothers books, where the three brothers build, repair, and sell houses while appearing on a Property Brothers meets The Bachelor-type reality show. The two older brothers have already appeared on the show and gotten together with their partners but the youngest, Jake, has been the feature of several seasons, never quite clicking with the homebuyer they’re working with that time until his ex agrees […]

Wonderful Romance Book

Sorry Not Sorry by Sophie Ranald

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Please note that this book will be released on February 13, 2019. Also note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So this was actually really good. I laughed, cried, and laughed some more. The character of Charlotte was written well and so were all of the secondary characters. I really liked the overall plot of Charlotte trying to do more with her life and meet someone and the subplots of her changing relationship with Maddy, and […]

Was More Interested in Secondary Characters

From Mum With Love by Louise Emma Clark

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Please note that this book will be released on February 5, 2019. Also note that I received this ARC for free from NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  I ended up giving this three stars because I think the author can definitely write. I just think that I was more interested in Jess’s sister and her best friend more than I was with her and her trying to find fulfillment writing a mommy blog. I think it didn’t help that Jess was […]



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