Cannonball Read 18

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Here we have a Pride & Prejudice retelling that I enjoyed

Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh

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I actually REALLY liked this, except that I thought the ending was a bit rushed and not quite up to the vim and sparkle of the rest. It is also the sixth book in a series, but the blurbs of the former five books weren’t giving and so I figured I could probably pick up on the nuances therein. Also, this is a PRIDE AND PREJUDICE retelling so you know I was all in and not going to have the patience to read five other […]

I might just skip straight to the last book, which is about the hero’s dick brother. I’d be interested to see how she humanizes him.

Slightly Married (Bedwyn Saga, #1) by Mary Balogh

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About five to six years back, I bought a bunch of “classic” aka popular/former bestseller romance novels at my local used bookstore (and by bunch, I mean around twenty to thirty of them in one go) and have barely touched them since because I am a raccoon who is only attracted to shiny things. Pulled this one out of my TBR Jar, though, early in January, and it did feel nice to finally get around to it. And it was fine! Utterly normal, nothing surprising. […]

Slightly Slightly

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Mary Balogh is a stalwart author in historical romance with whom my experience is very limited. Her Bedwyn Saga appears on NPR’s “Best Romances” list from several summers back, which I am still pretending to tackle in a very time-insensitive fashion. There are a total of six books in the series, and this review is for the first and last of them. If the rest of the books are like the first book, I will probably not read them, but if they’re more like the […]

Slightly Serious, but Still O So Good

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As a Christmas Book Exchange gift from my Romance Twin, Mrs. Julien, sent me this one. I knew it would be read quickly. It’s the last in the Bedwyn Saga by Mary Balogh, but I don’t think I was really missing out having not read the previous entries. And I plan to get to them at some point in this coming year. But for now it was the perfect little read over the holidays with a serious, eldest sibling hero and the spirited heroine who […]



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