Cannonball Read 18

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“It was enough simply to be for a while alongside a friend. Everything else was just noise.” (I wish this book was just noise)

A Fellowship of Games & Fables: Adenashire Book Three by J. Penner

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Jez, Adenashire’s resident grumpy Fennex, would rather curl up for a nap and hibernate through the season rather than go out in the snow and frolic. Unfortunately, a drunken boast lands her in the middle of the holiday festivities, competing in the Yule competition, and fake dating her friend, Taenya. (Well, that’s what you get when you mix pounding back drinks with an antagonistic personality. Or being a FMC in a Cozy Romantasy; either one.) Plagued by chronic fatigue (for unexplained reasons. Could be the […]

A weird heartwarming story about dead people

Hotel Limbo V01 by Ben Harel

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Okay, Hotel Limbo V01 by Ben Harel….  What the h-e-double hockey sticks did I read? This is one confusing, wild, unusual and crazy book. In other words, it is a must read. Okay, readers. I cannot tell you the story. Sure I can but it then tells you everything you would experience and honestly you should go into this book with no preconceptions other than that it is a journey and experience. But I will say we deal with death. Except it’s funny. Until it […]

CBR BINGO: And—”I think this might actually be happening. I think I might be trapped in my own personal Enchanted, and I’m Patrick Dempsey.”

Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood

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For context, I have been allergic to all romance not written by Cat Sebastian, Alexis Hall, or K.J. Charles for almost two years. I finished Romantic Hero first thing this morning and was super tempted to just slap five stars on it, because I’m so happy that I found another romance author that works for my brain. Which means, they actually know how to write. Like, the actual SKILL of it. THE CRAFT. Kirsty Greenwood can write! She knows how to pace a book. She […]

Delicately unpacking a whole lot of emotional baggage

Just a Highland Fling by Naina Kumar

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There was a point in Just a Highland Fling where Neelu is in the car with her estranged father and her one night stand antagonist, and I thought, “no one handles emotional baggage like Naina Kumar.” Highland Fling is a lot of fun. I enjoyed it enormously. It’s a good road trip romance with forced proximity, sheep, daddy issues, and a hot Desi bagpiper/poetry professor. What I really loved though was the way Kumar handled big raw feelings and their fallout with delicacy. Neelu is […]

Everything I’ve done since losing you has been about getting back to you.

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

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CBR18 Bingo: Maps – Kite and Joe follow and escape from the war by attacking and fleeing different harbours all over Europe. He put his hand out and Kite shook it. Joe had the alien thought that people here must never have touched each other otherwise. There was no kiss, no hug, nothing. They were all oysters sealed in their stiff manners. ― Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms I tried to let you go, before. I’m sorry. I didn’t know you’d forget so quickly. ― Natasha […]

Tee hee a brothel how scandale

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry by Elinor Lipman

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So the premise is, our heroine takes over an estate sale business when her parents retire, and then oo la la a potential client turns out to be a brothel, should she take the gig? The naughtiness of the very thought! Frissons! Palpitations! This is nominally a rom com and kinda gestures towards cozy mystery, but it doesn’t do either convincingly. I very much should have DNFed this, but I was in a writing group where we had to report in “what I’ve been reading” […]



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