Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Queer Marriage of Convenience Lau-Style

Two Friends in Marriage by Jackie Lau

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Two Friends in Marriage is the third book in Jackie Lau’s Weddings with the Moks series. I read the first two last year, enjoying Four Weddings to Fall in Love well enough and found the second book Three Reasons to Run to fall into the best of Lau’s writing. Unfortunately for me the third book had some issues that kept me from loving it in execution as much as I loved it in theory.   Lau is interested in telling stories about characters with diverse sexual […]

We’ve done it all before and now we’re back to get some more.

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

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Sometimes I think the only way to keep something forever is to lose it and let it haunt you. ― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing “Those men are terminally straight.” “Nobody’s straight on a European vacation.” ― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing CBR16 Bingo: Golden This book contains golden everything. From the food (golden honey, golden grains, golden baked bread, golden pastries, golden saffron), to the characters (sun-kissed and golden, golden hair, golden skin), and emotions (golden memories, golden opportunities, and people more precious than gold), just […]

Jolene doesn’t have red hair, okay?

The Home-wrecker by Sara Cate

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Sara Cate continues to be one of my favorite romance authors. Her new novel, The Home-wrecker, is the second installment in a series about the Goode family, a family recovering from the toxic Christianity of its fallen-from-grace patriarch who happens to have been a megachurch pastor before being brought up on attempted murder charges. Wow, that sentence is a mouthful, especially since he’s a secondary character.  Caleb is a successful defense attorney who is married to Briar, his college sweetheart. Like many couples, they are […]

If you had access to a machine that handed out orgasms like candy on Halloween, wouldn’t you give up on mere mortals?

Caught A Vibe (Love In The Quarantimes Book 1) by Eva Moore

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Why am I swooning over the one guy who treated me like a professional? Ridiculous. That should have been the bare minimum of every interaction today. ― Eva Moore, Caught A Vibe The image of her personally researching and testing out the product screams through my brain. I snap my eyes to hers and my mouth shut until I’m sure my filter is working again. I will not be that guy. ― Eva Moore, Caught A Vibe Penny is a robotics genius trying to get her […]

CBR15 Bingo – Queer Lives

That One Night by Emily Rath

Pucking Around by Emily Rath

Pucking Ever After by Emily Rath

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That One Night: Rachel Price is a doctor who has just been rejected for a prestigious fellowship. She is in Seattle for her twin brother’s wedding. A handsome stranger rescues her from a douchebag’s unwanted advances, and she feels an instant connection with him. Jake Compton is a Hockey player who is in Seattle to meet with his twin sister, who was unable to make the trip. When he rescues Rachel, sparks immediately fly, and she propositions him to come to her room, just for […]

A major bummer.

Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald

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Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Bullet pointing this “review” because I have emotionally abandoned this book and just cannot be bothered. *I was into this for first 10%, despite the terrible choice to write in first person present tense. *The blurb is extremely misleading. This is a friends to lovers romance. By the time I realized this was what was happening, it was too late for me to enjoy it, […]



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