Cannonball Read 11

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Notorious Pleasures is the title, not the reading experience

Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt

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I read the first book in this, the Maiden Lane series, but didn’t do a write up for it before starting book two and now it has sort of evaporated out of my head so I am just going to skip that one and go straight into Notorious Pleasures. Notorious Pleasures deals with Lady Hero Batten, the lovely, proper, and dutiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, who is about to be engaged to Thomas Reading, the Marquess of Mandeville. The book opens with her having entered a small room to adjust her wayward stocking at a ball, only to […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Cozy re-read.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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Quick review for a re-read. I still love this book. It’s still a great character study of Cath, who has anxiety and abandonment issues, and has huddled in on herself like a turtle, afraid to put out feelers to the outside world. She uses reading and writing fanfiction as an outlet for her creativity, and a way to forget herself for a while, but she wants to be a professional writer, and that means a type of writing she isn’t comfortable with yet, a type of writing that is personal and uncomfortable, for which you have to be present at […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

The best LGBTQ romance series I’ve read, despite all the hockey (dear god, so much hockey)

Breakaway by Avon Gale

Save of the Game by Avon Gale

Power Play by Avon Gale

Empty Net by Avon Gale

Coach’s Challenge by Avon Gale

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I’ve been a lifelong romance reader (I started reading my mother’s Jude Deveraux and Judy Garland paperbacks when I was 13), but for the past few months I’ve been really into reading LGBTQ romance, specifically m/m romance. I started with the gold standards, Sarina Bowen/Elle Kennedy’s “Him,” N.R. Walker’s “The Weight of It All,” Christina Lauren’s “Autoboyography,” and then Sarina Bowen’s “The Understatement of the Year” before I started searching out other authors/books. Kindle Unlimited has a lot of options, and most of them are…not great. I read the entire catalogue of N.R. Walker and then tried some new authors: […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Two street musicians enter the pawn shop

The Posey Ring: A Love Story by Bob Graham

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Walking up the stairs to the Children’s Department this morning, I looked up and there was this fabulous looking book cover. Just bright and which was opening (mostly) my not yet awake eyes. I stood precariously on the high metal staircase to take a photo of how cool it looked sitting there. Waiting for a reader. I then finished up those stairs to place in my hand, that teasing copy of The Posey Ring: A Love Story by Bob Graham. The story itself feels almost like a translation (from the Scandinavian area or German) but is not. What I mean […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

“That’s because pizza is a precious natural resource. It can heal tiredness, bad mood, falling morale, and a fading will to live. Pizza realigns the heart chakras.”

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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First, as someone who suggested The Hating Game to literally anyone requesting a romance recommendation in the past two and a half years I feel the need to send an apology out into the universe for Sally Thorne – I never wanted you to feel so much pressure for your next book. That being said, I’m so glad you were able to work through it and produce this, your sophomore outing. It is very worth the reader’s time and another example of the kind of contemporary romance I’m happy to read and extoll its virtues. 99 Percent Mine is a […]

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2/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

It Ends With…Me Not Enjoying This Book

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

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It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover Finished Feb. 17, 2019, took 2  days to read 2 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Romance Rating 8/8 for 2019 overall, 2/2 for Romance I really need to keep track of where I get my book recommendations because I would question the person or blog that suggested I read this book. Apparently, it is part of a genre called New Adult Romance (NA Romance), which seems to be well known on Goodreads. Instead of Young Adult, we have New Adult now, which is about people in their 20s? I thought that was just romance […]

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2/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Completely mis-titled, he was a very nice guy

Not So Nice Guy by R.S. Grey

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I’d completely forgotten the title of this book, reading a Kindle, I am not always aware of the title of the book once I’ve started reading it.  I’m really hoping it’s not just me that does that!!  I genuinely have no idea why the book is titled Not So Nice Guy.  Ian, the titular guy is never not nice.  Ian and Sam (Samantha) meet at new teacher orientation at Oak Hill High School and have been best friends for three years.  They have in the past had other boyfriends/girlfriends but more recently both are single and best friends, spending all […]

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2/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Not Worth the Price

The Wedding Shop on Wexley Street by Rachel Dove

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So I have been more diligent about reading samples before buying a book. I also need to start checking the book length. This one was just a little over 200 pages. 200 pages is not long enough to resolve some of the many messy plots in this book. Everything felt rushed. It didn’t help that the author decided to have things magically get resolved because of love or something. I relayed the plot to a friend last night and she was the one who called it the Jerry Springer show. She’s not wrong. Disappointed because the cover and premise sounded […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |


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