Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

It’s going on the comfort read menu with 5 chili peppers next to it for spice level

Meegan: A Holidate for Hire by Rebekah Weatherspoon

by 2 Comments

I started this review 6 weeks ago while I was experiencing a bout of seasonal depression that was more serious than I realized. I thought I was going to be able to write a review, because I’ve always been able to get a review of an arc written. While the thoughts and feelings were there, the words wouldn’t move from my brain to the screen in a coherent order. I had received an advance reader copy from the author and have been feeling a lot […]

How do you review Nora Roberts?

Mind Games by Nora Roberts

by 1 Comment

I was given an arc of Nora Roberts Mind Games a few weeks ago. One of the reasons she has such a large and loyal following is that she is so consistent in her writing. The stories are not exactly the same and she moves around in the subgenres of romance, but every one of her books has a familiarity. I generally know exactly what I’m going to get when I open a Nora Roberts book. I read a lot of her books at a […]

One of my favorite things about art is how it’s a testament to how much someone was loved, enough that the world needed to see it.

Manila Takes Manhattan by Carla de Guzman

by Leave a Comment

I was reading a review of a different book and was struck by the reviewer’s complaint about the characters. They felt like the characters were shaped for the plot, rather than the plot shaped by the characters. In contrast, Carla de Guzman drives the action of her story by what her characters would do. In Manila Takes Manhattan, she throws Mon and Olivia into a month of close proximity and the love story feels like it grows organically from there. Mon Mendoza has flown from […]

Is this a romance? I’m saying yes.

This Could be Us by Kennedy Ryan

by Leave a Comment

“So tell us what happened between Oh, my gosh, my inmate husband has a secret baby and I smashed the man who put him in prison,” Yasmen says, resting her chin on her folded hands. “This is some Days of Our Lives shit.” Kennedy Ryan’s Before I Let Go was one of the best books I read in 2022. I can still call up the big emotions between a divorced couple who are trying to co-parent and run a business together while also trying to […]

Are you ready to think about tomorrow?” he asked.

The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond

by 4 Comments

I do love a heist, and Gwenda Bond’s The Frame-Up is a good story wrapped around a heist. I think it’s a standalone, but I would not say no to more of this crew doing their version of a heist with magic in the future. Dani Poissant has been working solo in the decade since she turned her art thief mother in to the FBI. She’s a Robin Hood style grifter – targeting bad people, taking their money, and giving a big chunk of it to […]

“You ready to go be friendly?” He says “friendly” like someone might say “roasted” or “impaled.”

The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett

by 2 Comments

The Friendship Study was a lovely read that made some choices near the end that I didn’t love. The first thing that I loved about this book is the cover. It’s gorgeous and really conveys the feeling of the book. I don’t usually care much about covers, but this one is an A+. In 2021 I felt like all the books I was reading were about grief. This year the theme has been loneliness. Grief is still a big factor in so many books, but […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo