Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Mia’s Hot Fake-Married Summer in Paris

Sweet Filthy Boy (Wild Seasons Book 1) by Christina Lauren

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We’re married for the summer. Summer marriages don’t get dragged down in heavy stuff. ― Christina Lauren, Sweet Filthy Boy “Which was your favorite? Living room, or bed, or floor, or bed, or wall, or mirror, or bar, or floor?” “Shhh,” I whisper, lifting my cup to take another, more careful sip of coffee. I smile into my mug. “You’re weird.” “I think I need a cast for my penis.” ― Christina Lauren, Sweet Filthy Boy Mia is not impulsive. She follows the path, checks […]

The Improbable Meet-Cute: Second Chances Anthology Review

Accidentally Yours by Christina Lauren

Time Will Tell by Hannah Bonam-Young

Second Act Romance by Julie Soto

A Play for Love by Trilina Pucci

Death to Valentine's Day by Catherine Cowles

Valentine's Slay by Navessa Allen

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Well some of the stories were great, but the last three were definitely not up to par to the other ones. The last story was downright bad. Accidentally Yours by Christina Lauren (5 stars)-Very cute from beginning to end. We follow Veronica who is unemployed and feeling frustrated with her lack of job prospects. When she gets on a Zoom link to a job interview, she ends up telling everyone on the call what terrible PR they have for the marketing of their new app. […]

Scared Sexy Short Stories

Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood

Falling by Christina Lauren

Spicy Little Curses by J.T. Geissinger

Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon

Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert

All My Boyfriends are Monsters by Kimberly Lemming

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I’ve been dealing with a bad mood and migraine for about 24 hours so I just decided to read these short stories before getting back into anything longer. All in all, just a 3 for the entire anthology. This anthology is dark Halloween romance. I stupidly assumed dark romance means stories similar to A Court of Thorn and Roses, but this just seems more like, these all take place on Halloween (well I think most of them do except for that space one) and there’s […]

A little luxurious wish fulfillment

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

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CBR17Bingo: Green (for the green cover) By now I’ve read a number of books by Christina Lauren*, and they’ve been a little hit or miss for me. But it hasn’t stopped me from continuing to read their novels–always hoping for the best. The Paradise Problem (2024) wasn’t my absolute favorite book from them, but it’s up there and I had a good time. When Anna Green was pre-med in college, she was desperate for housing. A friend of hers hooked her up with Liam “West” […]

“Seems it’s pretty hard to write a compelling book when the reader already knows how it ends.”

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

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The unexpected, highly requested sequel to the Love Equation. Plot: Fizzy is a successful romance novelist who has hit a brick wall, inspirationally speaking. She absolutely loves love, but at 37, she’s only had one real relationship under her belt, and as it turned out, she was the other woman in it. She wasn’t in love, and she is starting to wonder whether she ever will be. So how is she supposed to write about it? So when this cardboard cutout of a Hollywood producer […]

“Last week I considered going jogging in flip-flops just to remind myself how sex sounds.”

The True Love Experience by Christina Lauren

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StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 25: A book with two authors Felicity “Fizzy” Chen loves her life and career as a romance writer. The problem is that she’s suffering from a bad case of writers’ block, and when she’s asked about her personal life in interviews or author panels, it’s not like she can confess to never actually having been in love, right? A romance writer should surely have experienced romantic love at some point? With all of her friends happily coupled up, she’s also getting […]



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