Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Classic's Quick Questions interview.)

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Aphrodite and the Duke

Aphrodite and the Duke by J.J. McAvoy

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Oh this one hurts. I wanted to love this book so much. But I was really bored throughout my reading. The good stuff, author McAvoy has the period language down to a tee. I honestly thought I was reading a Jane Austen novel at times. McAvoy also has done research into the period of England at the time and that was most appreciated. But I felt like I […]

Sugar and Salt

Sugar and Salt by Susan Wiggs

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  I Did Not Finish (DNF) at 26 percent, skimmed to 40 percent mark. I got up to chapter 10 and tossed in the towel. It just didn’t grab me. The writing felt super slow and I felt like after a while the book was going through the motions. There’s no heat between Jerome and Margot. And why they would get involved in Ida’s business didn’t read as believable […]

Into the Sublime

Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  Well the cover was great. After that….this book was a whole big miss. I was tempted to give it 2 stars because at least I finished it, but honestly I struggled. I almost DNFed this book multiple times. Nothing makes sense in the end and none of the characters were developed at all. And then the ending, whatever to that. “Into the Sublime” follows Amelie Desmarais who is […]

Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake

Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake by Mazey Eddings

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  So here’s my problem. The sex scenes in this book were top tier. I mean they sizzled off the page. And then the rest of the plot was a mess and it just didn’t read as realistic to me which is why I had a hard time with it. Also, I started to see Lizzie as selfish after a while, and I hated that it kept getting chalked up […]

To Get to the Other Side

To Get to the Other Side by Kelly Ohlert

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. What an odd romance. I just wish that I could have liked it more than I did. I just thought after the first few chapters I read that the characters of Trixie and Bear fell flat. And also, I would have strangled Trixie with the whole let’s have animals all over the place thing she was into. The insta-love thing as a plot never really works for me […]

Lie to Her

Lie to Her by Melinda Leigh

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Please note I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So this was a fantastic read in the Bree Taggert series. Maybe because this is the first one where Leigh decided to have us follow the murderer the way we did. I was honestly surprised by the reveal of who it was too (which I always love) and loved the back and forth chapters following Bree and Matt via third person point of view to the first person point […]



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