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Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

You are the Most Dangerous Person in the British Empire

A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

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A few weeks ago in the Facebook group (Cannonball Read Book Chat), Ellepkay offered an audio copy of Deanna Raybourn’s A Perilous Undertaking. I said, “yes, please.” A Perilous Undertaking is the second of Raybourn’s Veronica Speedwell Mysteries. Naturally, I had to read the first book first. A curious Beginning is only $2.99 on Amazon Kindle. I highly recommend it. I spent the first third of this book alternately delighted and annoyed by Miss Veronica Speedwell. Eventually I settled into delight. I was initially annoyed that Veronica wouldn’t believe she was in danger. If you consider it from her perspective, as opposed […]

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8/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:86 |

Maybe it’s not that I hate the romance genre, maybe it’s that I have a low tolerance for predictability

One Day by David Nichols

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A brief aside: I don’t normally like book covers that have anything to do with the film adaptation, but the normal cover of this book is so bland and forgettable, I’m using the movie tie-in cover here. It has a more classic look to it. Anyway. Dexter Mayhew is a charming playboy, absolutely gorgeous to behold. And he knows it. Emma Morley is a beautiful and intelligent woman; a little snide and politically conscious. They spend the night of their graduation from university together before beginning a years long friendship that sees them never quite fulfilling the promise of romance […]

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8/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

It’s all part of her rock and roll fantasy

The Rock Star in Seat 3A by Jill Kargman

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I’m sure we’ve all that fantasy that if we meet the celebrity crush of our dreams, that he/she would be instantly smitten and you’d ride off into the sunset together for the lusty happily ever after.  That is basically the plot of this book.  Hazel has just turned 30, has a hot chef boyfriend (Wylie) and the job of her dreams working for a video game company.   Already she has it made, but she’s always had a big crush on rock god Finn of the fictional group The Void.  (I have to admit the name Finn just doesn’t seem […]

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8/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:67 |

A Civil War romance with spying and plenty of danger

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

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From Goodreads: Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South – to spy for the Union Army.  Malcolm McCall is a detective for Pinkerton’s Secret Service. Subterfuge is his calling, but he’s facing his deadliest mission yet – risking his life to infiltrate a Rebel enclave in Virginia. Two undercover agents who share a common cause – and an undeniable attraction – Malcolm and Elle join forces when they discover a plot that could turn […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:73 |

Widow author and bad boy rock star – the book is really good!

True North by Liora Blake

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Kate Mosely is a widow living alone and rather lonely in the little town of Crowell, Montana. She more or less runs the local newspaper she inherited from her father (with help from his old business partner), but her small claim to fame is writing a novel that’s become a bestseller, much thanks to her persistent and aggressive literary agent, Stephen. Now, hoping to create more buzz for the book, as well as spurring Kate into writing a second novel, he’s booked her on several TV appearances in LA. Kate is to appear first on a prestigious late night talk […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:72 |

Long lost love returns

The Pleasures of Passion by Sabrina Jeffries

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This is the last book in the Sinful Suitors series, and returns a long lost character back to England.  There had been mentions of him in previous books in the series, so I was interested to see how it would play out.  Niall Lindsay, Earl of Margrave, has been in exile for seven years after killing a man in a duel.  He was a young man at the time, and the duel was over the man raping his sister Clarissa, a fact that his family wanted to keep secret to protect her honor.  At the time of his departure, he […]

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8/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:66 |

Widows, Rakes, and Gobs of Cash

Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas

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I went with an older Lisa Kleypas for my beach reading while on vacation. Or rather, on my trip – I have a toddler now, there is no vacationing for a long while. Where Dreams Begin is the story of Zachary Bronson, an incredibly wealthy commoner with a humble past and a rowdy reputation and Holly Taylor, a young widow and mother still mourning the deathJ of her husband three years prior. Holly attends a ball after years of mourning and ends up being kissed by a dark haired stranger (Zachary) who has clearly mistaken her for someone else. Neither […]

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8/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

The Romance/Murder Mystery/Thriller/Ghost Story You’ve Been Looking For!

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

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The Ghost Bride is a great summer read which I thoroughly enjoyed and raced through in no time. I picked it up based on a list of recommended fantasy reads that are one-off’s and not part of a multi-volume series. This novel was so good, I now wish it was part of a series (and it seems to me, based on the ending, that it could become one). I came for the fantasy/ghost aspect and its historical overtones, but the romance part of it was unexpectedly delightful, reminiscent in some ways of Jane Austen and her keen observations about society, […]

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8/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

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