Cannonball Read 18

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“Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”

An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister

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When I’m deciding what books I want to pick up with my limited time and attention (friends, my attention is possibly at an all-time low) there are certain types of stories which are more likely to grab me. When Jodi McAlister’s An Academic Affair and its pair of rival academics embarking on a fake marriage for work stability plot came to my attention, I felt pretty good about it. For a rivals to lovers book to work, you must buy both parts equally. As I type that, I feel […]

CBR BINGO: Middle—”How much shower stuff does he think one woman needs for a month? It’s like how NASA tried to send Sally Ride to space for one week with a hundred tampons ‘just in case’.”

Happy Medium by Sarah Adler

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This was fine! I waited too long to read it. I still liked most romances back in 2024 when it was published. This one follows Gretchen, a fake medium who has a Rule that she will only take money to lie to people about their dead relatives if she can leave them better than she found them. Her most important client pays her $10k to do an “exorcism” on the farm of her bridge partner. Gretchen of course accepts the offer, expecting to find an […]

Reclaiming a city from past memories

The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

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Bingo Square: Repair (the best man tasks Layla with fixing things when the bride gets cold feet) Quote: Being an even moderately aware adult in the twenty-first century had taught Layla that pretty much every billionaire belonged in prison, or at the very least kept in some kind of island confinement with other billionaires, where they could circle-jerk each other all day with their evil, society-destroying ideas. This romance novel was such a joy. I mean, I shouldn’t have been surprised – Kate Clayborn consistently […]

Event planning, succession and second chances at love

I Think They Love You by Julian Winters

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Bingo Square: Success (Denz has to figure out what success is for him) This was a cute second chance romance with fake dating that I mostly enjoyed. It’s third person limited, told entirely from Denz’s perspective, and as much as I liked Denz, I think being entirely in his head for the length of the entire novel made it feel a little longer than it was. I don’t necessarily have a preference between dual POV or single POV when it comes to romance but I […]

The Third Moreno Sister’s Story

The Love Feud by Janine Amesta

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Late last summer and early fall I read the first two books of Janine Amesta’s Love in the Air series and had a great time. Due to oversights that are entirely my doing, the third and final book in the series went unread until June of this year. However, I was VERY glad to have this book on vacation in June, so there’s that.   The Love Feud is the story of the youngest Moreno sister, Hailey. There has been a bit of a time jump since the end of The Wedding Con and we are now a few years away from […]

Father Figure

Father Material (London Calling #3) by Alexis Hall

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Now that Luc and Oliver’s relationship has survived a few ups and downs – from fake dating to real dating, almost getting married – they figure it’s time for the next step: a dog. They get an adorable dog of indeterminate race named Spud, in spite of Oliver’s attempts to name him something elegant and statesque because Spud looks like a potato. Luc immediately feels inadequate in the face of Oliver’s immaculate preparation (reading a shitload of books and taking notes), his stern but loving […]



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