Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“He looked both a little bit dangerous and refined, like a ceremonial knife.”

You Were Made to Be Mine by Julie Anne Long

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3.5 stars Christian Hawkes was a British spymaster during the Napoleonic wars and ended up spending years in a French prison after someone sold him out. Now he’s free, but left destitute and mostly friendless. The Earl of Brundage, tipped to become an ambassador, hires Hawkes to locate his missing fiancée and a very valuable necklace (who was only on loan to the Earl) the young woman had in her possession when she went missing. Hawkes would like nothing better than to tell Brundage to […]

It’s about fated mates who meet during an intergalactic dating show that is also a cooking competition.

Alien Love Games: The Tasty Bake: Sci Fi Alien Romance (Mated to the Bolans Book 2) by Kyra Keys

Double Dirty Mountain Men: An MFM Menage Romance (Get Dirty) by Parker Grey

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CBR16 Bingo: Smash These books smash genres (intergalactic alien dating via a cooking reality show) and the characters, ahem, “smash.” If it’s not obvious, I chose these books for their over-the-top titles. Plus, a blue muscled alien in a cooking apron was too wild to pass up. Alien Love Game: The Tasty Bake (Mated to the Bolan #2) By Kyra Keys After her best friend is selected for the reality TV show, “The Alien Love Games,” Cherise decides that maybe she can snag a sexy […]

Really cute fake dating romance

Love, Lies and Cherry Pie by Jackie Lau

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4.5 stars This was an ARC from the author. My opinions are my own. CBR16 Sweet Books: Cozy Emily Hung is happily single, but her mother won’t let that stop her from trying to set her up with suitable men, often the sons of various family friends. Since Emily is now the only unmarried daughter, her mother’s efforts are intensifying. At her sister’s wedding, her mother makes sure Emily is paired with Mark Chan, who is an engineer and seems stuck-up and boring. To make […]

Murder Triad? Yes, Please

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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I don’t remember how I ended up with a copy of Consort of Fire. I might have received a copy directly from the publisher (Montlake). I might have seen it in a bookstore. I might have bought it on Amazon. I honestly have no idea, because I feel like I’ve had it for a million years. So when my podcast co-host mentioned that we should read a romantasy book for our next When In Romance book club, my eye was immediately drawn to Consort of Fire on my […]

If you’re reading this letter, then I am quite dead, my dear. Dead, but not resting.

Jewel Me Twice by Charish Reid

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Jewel Me Twice is like the old Reese’s Peanut Butter cup tag line. “Two great tastes that taste great together.” It combines two of my favorite things, a heist romance written by one of my auto-buy authors, Charish Reid. I liked Charish Reid from the first page of The Write Escape, and have enjoyed all of her books. I love the characters she writes and the relationships she builds with them. As a side note, I got into a conversation about Charish Reid’s heroines, and […]

“I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.”

Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

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CBR16 Bingo: Détente (Cordelia and Aral start out as enemies and end up married) Official book summary (read this in early May): In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan – he who was called “The Butcher of Komarr” – and would consequently become an outcast on […]



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