Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Cute Sapphic Cheerleader-Quarterback YA!

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

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This is a delight, which I knew it would be after loving Dahlia Adler’s Cool for the Summer last year. Amber has dreams of becoming cheer captain and being able to get a scholarship so she can go to college away from Atherton and be able to be out and openly date girls. But while she’s still in … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

whoever said you can’t go home (to spindle cove) might be right

A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare

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I think I read this because I was despairing of coming to the end of the books that are universally acclaimed in Dare's oeuvre, and because I missed the ladies of Spindle Cove (and, to be honest, the idea of Spindle Cove in general. There is something hilarious about a town in which copies of a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , ·

bit of a power disparity at play here, ymmv

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

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In comparison to the last Girl Meets Duke (gag on that name) book, The Wallflower Wager (chronologically after this one, though), this book has a number more logistical loops one must jump over in order to get invested in the characters, along with a variant of a trope that I do not enjoy. And that … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , ·

your tolerance for quirk will be tested (but rewarded!)

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

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Here we have a different series by Dare, as I was basically trying to skip around and find all of her best reviewed works. In these, as the name suggests, a female lead (seriously, do we need to call adult women girls) meets someone who is a "duke" either literally or not. In this case, we have a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , ·

another castle, another lord

When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare

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Clearly I am taken with this idea of inheriting a large foreboding house far away from society that is mine without a mortgage or property taxes (and, since we're in fantasy territory, also comes with a healthy, symbiotic relationship with the people who work the land). As noted in the prior … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , ·

A Lazy Book Not Recommended As An Overview of Hasidism

The Pious Ones by Joseph Berger

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After a long stretch of positive but distracting life events (a new job, a move), I find myself with enough mental room to rededicate myself to book reviews. Fortunately I have a backlog to review so I'll jump on in with a book that deeply irritated me since I find a scathing review can be easier to … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: , , , , ·


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