Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Loves reading books, writing about books and talking about books. On the CBR Board. May send you an email. Thinking about new challenges. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Emmalita's Quick Questions interview.)

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Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 7 by Rachel Kramer Bussel

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You can trust that Rachel Kramer Bussel is going to put together a good anthology. Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 7 is thoughtful with a wide range of stories. I don’t expect to like every story in an anthology, and erotica is tougher because it taps into a place that can be rawly personal. When Kramer Bussel puts an anthology together, I know I will at least appreciate most of the stories. My only complaint about the book is one I frequently have about […]

The Territorial Lecherous Moth and The Dangerous Marshmallow

Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin

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Proper Scoundrels is a spin off from Therin’s Magic in Manhattan series. The adventures of Sebastian and Lord Fine won’t make much sense if you haven’t read the series, but you should read the series. It is excellent and Therin built a wonderful world while writing it. I’m so glad she’s writing past Arthur and Rory, and that we get to spend more time with Jade and Zhang. Wesley, Lord Fine, feels separated from the world by his title, and by his experience as a […]

A Much Better Holiday Romance Than Love, Actually

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

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I haven’t read any of Jenny Holiday’s books before, but it sounded interesting, so I put it on my TBR and then Goodreads offered a giveaway, I entered, I won, and then I waited for weeks. It finally arrived, just as a cold front brought the temperatures down to the low 70’s. I made some celebratory hot cocoa with oat milk and sipped it while still wearing a t-shirt and perusing Duke, Actually. Max and Dani meet in A Princess for Christmas. Their respective best friends […]

A Meet Grumpy Love Story

Too Much Man by Katy James

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Gavin Williams is having a bad month. He wakes up hungover, in pain, and not ready to face the sudden end of his hockey career. On the advice of his teammate, Carlos, Gavin limps down to the local coffee shop to try coffee as a hangover cure. Unfortunately, he doesn’t like coffee and he’s in a temper he doesn’t have a handle on. He immediately butts heads with Piper, the owner of the Friendly Bean, who is also having a bad day. It’s a spectacularly […]

“She’s you. You’re her.” “Maybe, but she’s still a complete stranger to me.”

Repeat by Kylie Scott

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Somehow, while letting Audible throw romances narrated by Andi Arndt into my ears, I ended up listening to Kylie Scott’s Repeat. There was stuff I liked, stuff I didn’t like, and it was a solidly enjoyable, perfectly fine listen. I like Arndt’s voice. In Repeat, Clementine Johns is recovering from a head injury that has given her amnesia. While searching out information about herself, she walks into a tattoo parlor where she is met by a bunch of angry faces, including the large, handsome tattoo […]

“This sort of thing happens more and more as I age out of ‘attractive and unattached’ territory and into ‘destined to die a spinster’ territory.“

The Life Revamp by Kris Ripper

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What do you do when what you want more than anything is to get married, but your perfect man is married to the woman who set the two of you up on a blind date? Mason has been dating a man who seems perfect, but they keep not taking the step from casual to serious. Meanwhile, his friend Claris has finally nagged him into agreeing to a date with her husband, a fashion designer named Diego. They are in an open relationship. While Mason is […]



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