Cannonball Read 18

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this delightful book unfortunately poked the bear (me)

Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian

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CBR Bingo: You, because my main gripe/rant about this book is going to be about something (MEDICAL MISINFORMATION) that is very dear to my heart in multiple ways I really like Cat Sebastian as an author, and I loved the entire premise and execution of this novel. She’s a really talented writer, and moving from the historical era to the modern era doesn’t seem to have dimmed her capabilities any (which, not always the case). This time around our lead is 34 (!!!!) year old […]

“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 […]

“Now all I can see is the longing. Not only for companionship, but for community. He’s looking for people like him. It’s very touching, and very familiar, isn’t it?”

After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian

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Nothing like starting off the new year with a five star read. I will admit I was hoping for this outcome when I picked it for my first book of the year. Cat Sebastian is increasingly becoming known for atmospheric, historically rich, community-focused, and quietly revolutionary little books. I wanted a lovely time full of lovely people that would take me away to a time in history that reflects pieces of our own Current Times while still being an escape hatch from reality. You don’t […]

Have you ever met a rich man somebody didn’t want to kill?

Hither, Page: Page and Sommers Book #1 by Cat Sebastian

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Probably he had the honest man’s instinctive distaste for subverting the course of justice. That was a luxury Leo never had. If only honest men knew how many lives had been saved with a bit of criminal conspiracy, they’d think it one of the cardinal virtues. ― Cat Sebastian, Hither, Page Leo Page and James Sommers end up in the same small English village in the years following WWII. James is a physician and he returned to the small village where he lived with his […]

He was handsome, Ben supposed, if you liked angry men.

It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1) by Cat Sebastian

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This was some unholy combination of desire and friendship and something else, because apparently when you took workaday lust and combined it with affection and threw in garden-variety honesty, you got something new and totally different.” ― Cat Sebastian, It Takes Two to Tumble At the start of the novel, Captain Phillip Dacre returned home from a two year voyage with the royal navy. His dutiful wife, Caroline, passed away while he was at sea, and he braced himself to face three children he barely […]

“There is something inexplicably masculine about expecting to be believed.”

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (London Highwaymen #2) by Cat Sebastian

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This book is the second and final in the Highwaymen series and the fact that there isn’t a London Highwaymen #3 (and 4 and 5 and 6 and…) is a crushing blow. I loooove this world and these characters and would easily read a dozen more that showed additional POVs of the action we followed in the first installment, or expansions of other minor characters. Sebastian’s writing is sharp and fun, filling me with smirks, and the story is utterly charming, not to mention a […]



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