Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Loathed This Book. Hostile Review Follows

The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

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Is this grumpy/sunshine romance or old coot/youth? Do vegans wear leather skirts? How much does an average hockey player weigh? Why does she keep cooking them dinner? How is this a rational custody arrangement? Keep reading to find out. From Amazon: Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while […]

Macho, macho man. I gotta be a macho man.

The Burnt Toast B&B (Bluewater Bay Book 5) by Heidi Belleau and Rachel Haimowitz

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CBR16 Bingo: Vintage Derrick is a screw up, or at least he thinks he is. Laid off from his logging job, he moved back home to his parents’ house, which is also a B&B in the small Pacific Northwest town of Bluewater Bay. Losing his parents in a car accident was devastating, and watching their dreams crumble beneath his incompetent fingers is too much to bear. Derrick barely maintains the B&B and relies heavily on Jim, his ex, for emotional support and occasional dog sitting […]

ALL the Kate Canterbary

Shucked by Kate Canterbary

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Owing to a significant gap writing CBR reviews, I had discovered and embraced many new authors by the time I  started participating again, including Kate Canterbary. As is my way, I discovered her from an Emmalita review of The Worst Guy which is, so far, Canterbary’s best book. I have since consumed most of her output with consistently good to sometimes excellent results. Canterbary is great at steam and even greater at clever. Despite plowing through her back catalogue, Shucked (The Loew Brothers) is the […]

A fluffy grumpy/sunshine romance with Christmas vibes

Pine-ing for You by T.S. Ankney

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Mason is a lovable himbo trapped in an engagement of convenience. His fiancé promptly dumps him when the press finds out that Mason has absconded to Fiji with the sketchy lead singer of a popular rock band. Mason and his fiancé are disgraced, and the whole thing is a shitshow of epic proportions. It turns out that sketchy rock star (Jackson) only seduced Mason in the hopes of getting some easy publicity. As soon as the scandal breaks, Jackson dumps Mason for his scuba instructor. […]

The low-angst, cozy romance I needed last week

The Naked Cleaner by Sophia Soames

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“She works out naked?” Pontus asks, and gosh, there is a little color in his cheeks, which is kind of cute.  “Of course, although you will probably find this weird. She puts on a sports bra for the running machine because she says she hates having her boobs flap around.” ― Sophia Soames, The Naked Cleaner CBR15Passport: This book is set in Copenhagen, Denmark. Pontus is financially and professionally successful, but he is horrible at taking care of himself or allowing others past his excessively […]

I was wholly unprepared for such tenderness and humor

For Real by Alexis Hall

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CBR15Bingo: Europe square CBR15Passport: Books from different countries (England) “A soft pulse of desire went through me, not for sex or pain or humiliation or some other release, but for this, this quiet closeness. Someone to hold in the dark.” ― Alexis Hall, For Real “What could I do with a boy who had brought me to my knees twice, yet still held my hand in the dark? What could I give in return for such kindness? Such faith? I would so gladly bear all […]



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