Cannonball Read 18

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“Maybe I was right. We’re not normal people. We are monsters. But if we’re monsters, we’ll thrive in the dark. Together.”

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

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The first book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy came to my attention thanks to my fellow Cannonballers. I feel like I went from knowing absolutely nothing about this book or its author to being flooded with information about it and somehow still managing to go into the reading experience with extraordinarily little spoiled for me (something I hope to accomplish with my own review). Malin’s review from March was the linchpin as I don’t traditionally go in for dark romance but if Malin gave it her […]

The Value in Horrible Things is What You Make of Them

There Are No Saints by Sophie Lark

There is No Devil by Sophie Lark

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Sophie Lark has written herself a duology that is seriously dark and twisted with There Are No Saints and There is No Devil. Go ahead and insert a blanket trigger warning here. If you are easily offended or triggered by any thing, this is not the set of books for you. In fact, I almost didn’t start them when I realized that Cole, the male lead, is a serial killer, and that the female lead, Mara, is his latest obsession. Because that is messed up on […]

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Hunted by a Shadow by Michelle Heard

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Michelle Heard’s Hunted by a Shadow is her third installment in her Mafia Kings series. It’s a stand alone dark Mafia romance, and boy, is it dark. I’m writing this review as I watch the Super Bowl in overtime. I’ve kinda gotten bored with the game – I mean, I was only watching for the commercials and celebrity sightings, particularly everyone’s favorite football couple. No, not Taylor and Travis. I’m talking about the Kuches*. They are freaking adorable, and I kinda need that in my […]

Some Dark Romances, Some Cute Romances, Some Romance Novellas. Something for everyone!

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

Hooked by Emily McIntire

Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

In The Weeds by B.K. Borison

All In by Sara Cate

Pucking Ever After, Vol. 2 by Emily Rath

Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey

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Here are some 2023 reviews that I didn’t manage to get out before the deadline: Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver Sloane is just your average, everyday woman who just so happens to enjoy murdering serial killers and posing them in grisly tableaus as a hobby. Who can’t relate? One day, she is accidentally trapped by a killer she has just murdered and is worried she is going to starve to death when she is saved by Rowan, an everyday man who also just so […]

Worst Book I Have Read So Far This Year

The Good Side of Wrong by Jenika Snow

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Persephone is 18 and a senior in High School when her parents are killed in a car crash. Even though she is legally an adult, she is placed in the custody of her Uncle Hades. Hades was adopted into the family as a young child, so he could be abused by his Father and Brother in order to toughen up his Brother so he could run the family business. Hades’s original plot is to destroy Persephone so he can get posthumous revenge on his brother, […]

Minor Miracle: Unlocked

Sweethearts and Savages: Eden Academy Book Two by Grace McGinty

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I just finished Sweethearts and Savages, the second book in Grace McGinty’s Eden Academy series. I really want to talk about this book in particular, and not just because it is sort of the culmination of all of her other works to this point. They’ve all been driving to this destination. You could read this one without having read any of her other works, but I wouldn’t recommend it – a LOT of world and character building has gone into these. Like many romance authors, […]



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