Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“If I was going to be a villain, I might as well commit to the role.”

The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) by Tiffany Hunt

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CBR18 Bingo: One – This is the first book in the Guides to Villainy and Love series. Dark Lord Kazimir kidnaps Lady Arabella to be his bride for the power her heroic bloodline will bring him, and is therefore rather confused when she turns out to be a furious woman with demands of her own for their marriage. I don’t read much romantasy, but I was intrigued by the premise this villain romance with plenty of humor. And for the most part I really did enjoy […]

Loved the heroine, the hero was a bit inconsistently written

Pride Comes Before a Fall by Virginia Heath

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3.5 stars Thank you to NetGalley and St.Martin’s Press for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Leopold “Leo” Sloane, the Duke of Debden, has dragged his two younger sisters to Bath in an attempt to keep them out of trouble. The youngest is crazy for any man in uniform, and the eldest snuck out of the house and got injured during a protest march. After saying some less-than-complimentary things to his mother about her ability to keep them […]

Maybe my favourite Jenny Holiday book so far

Book Club Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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4.5 stars CBR18 Bingo: Craft (this book dwells a lot on writing as a craft – both novels and screenplays) Thank you to Forever and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Blair Kellermoon (former rom-com star, now powerful producer) has adapted several novels as movies and TV series and runs a book club, and the books she picks usually get huge sales boosts and are again likely to be optioned for adaptation. Suffice it to say, […]

This would have been better as a YA fantasy

Dominion by Jean Kwok

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CBR18 Bingo: 26 (published this year. This month, in fact) Thank you to G.P. Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Rubi is an azure, a group of displaced and badly treated refugees. In this fantasy world, there are four dominions, each with its own specialities. There is the Azure Dragon dominion, which can control plants and all things growing, and many of their people can shapeshift into animals; the Scarlet Phoenix dominion, which […]

Get Off My Island!

Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler

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CBR18 Bingo: Sheep – The doctor and Dore, and later the Wittmers, all come to Floreana hoping to live simpler, more rustic lives, growing their own food and tending to their own animals. When Friedrich, a German doctor, and his former patient and lover Dore decide to move to an uninhabited Galapagos island in search of a pastoral setting for their self-improvement, they did not know the publicity and violence that would follow. I had a vague recollection of this bizarre story from hearing about […]

“Simon tries to remember where he’s supposed to put his hands, what a normal facial expression feels like, how to cosplay as a functional person.”

Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian

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It has been literal years since I have read a Cat Sebastian romance novel, and that’s a damn shame for me, because I love her writing. I’ve had books of hers out from the library, but the timing just hasn’t been right, I suppose. But her debut into contemporary romance, Star Shipped, (you, like me, will be forgiven if the cover art made you think this was mid 20th century like the Cabots series) was available as an ARC and an Aardvark book and I scooped it up as fast as possible – and then […]



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