Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A series of lies

The Girl with the Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

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This is book two in the Rokesby series, set before the infamous Bridgerton bunch series, of which I’ve read all.  However, I’m not as taken with this series as I’d hoped to be.  The first book was okay, and this one had a lot of problematic plot devices.  To begin with, Cecilia Harcourt makes an impetuous journey from England to America to care for her brother Thomas, a soldier in the army.  He’s gone missing, however, but she feels like it would be an easy task to find him.  Instead, she finds his friend Edward Rokesby – unconscious and needing […]

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10/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

Goodbye, Bridgertons, I hardly knew ye.

On the Way to the Wedding (Bridgertons, #8) by Julia Quinn

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This book was a bit of a mixed bag for me, which is sad since it’s the last Bridgerton book, and I would have liked the series to go out on more of bang rather than a whimper*. And I really genuinely enjoyed the first half of the book. It was fun and bantery, and I liked that neither our hero nor heroine were really very self aware, and thus instalove was avoided. But the second half lost its way. *I would also rather it wasn’t the pinkest shade of book to ever exist this side of cotton candy. Gregory […]

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9/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

Was There A Kissing Book Writer Race to Use This Title?

Do You Want to Start a Scandal? by Tessa Dare

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Tessa Dare’s latest Regency romance series is The Duchess Deal and I would recommend its first book, Girl Meets Duke, over Do You Want to Start a Scandal. This crossover story between Dare’s Spindle Cove and Castles Ever After novels, features the youngest of the Highwood sisters and longtime troublemaker, Charlotte, who has both eldest sibling Diana’s desire for a loving home and intellectual Minerva‘s sense of adventure. Piers Brandon, Lord Granville is an agent of the crown performing reconnaissance at a two-week house party in the English countryside. Devoted to his duty to King and country, he is caught off guard when Charlotte Highwood presents herself to him with a […]

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9/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

A Good Novella from the Ever Reliable Mary Balogh

A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh

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“I don’t think anything inspired me except the necessity of coming up with a story so that I could fulfill my obligation to a contract I had agreed to! I had to dream up a story, and this one popped into my head.” Mary Balogh in the interview following A Matter of Class. Nonetheless, as an experienced, and clearly honest, professional writer, she delivered a sincerely charming  historical romance novella. Reggie and Annabelle are lifelong neighbours divided by a waterway as well as the barriers of class levels in so-called polite society. Their estates may be next to each other […]

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9/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

A former spy and a former freedom fighter investigate a murder together

Beauty Like the Night by Joanna Bourne

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Sèverine de Cabriallac was orphaned during the French Revolution and adopted by one of the foremost British intelligence agents, William Doyle. Her whole childhood was spent being raised, taught or entertained by various spies. During a youthful rebellion, Sèvie ran off to Spain and joined British Military Intelligence. She was in love with a French soldier, who died. No longer really interested in the spying game so many of her family are involved in, she works as a private investigator instead. One memorable night, a mysterious stranger appears in the bedroom of the inn she is visiting, brandishing a knife. […]

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9/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

“She was warned. Given every explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted in her sinful behavior, and she would not repent of it.”

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

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4.5 stars Miss Emma Gladstone was a respectable clergyman’s daughter until a foolish indiscretion made her father condemn her and forced her to walk all the way to London during the winter. She lost a toe. Now she’s making a living as a seamstress, but will be fired if she doesn’t get paid for the extravagant and somewhat excessive gown she created for Annabelle Worthing, until recently betrothed to the Duke of Ashbury. To make sure she’s taken notice of, she dons the over the top gown and visits the reclusive Duke in person to demand her money. George Pembrooke, […]

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9/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

What Was Being a Duke, If Not Arching a Sardonic Eyebrow?

The Duchess Deal: Girl Meets Duke by Tessa Dare

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What was being a duke, if not arching a sardonic eyebrow? [fires confetti cannon, then starts pointing and yelling, “YES!” at Tessa Dare] Girl Meets Duke has all of Dare’s cleverness and less of her recent series’ tweeness. She’s back and I’m in! It’s not her best work, but it’s what I (and very possibly no one else as captious as I am) consider a return to form, and in some ways a step up. It’s like she unleashed her full wit and wordplay on this Regency romance. Ash is a brooding, forbidding Duke. Manly, muscular, and scarred by cannon […]

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9/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

A Civil War romance with spying and plenty of danger

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

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From Goodreads: Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South – to spy for the Union Army.  Malcolm McCall is a detective for Pinkerton’s Secret Service. Subterfuge is his calling, but he’s facing his deadliest mission yet – risking his life to infiltrate a Rebel enclave in Virginia. Two undercover agents who share a common cause – and an undeniable attraction – Malcolm and Elle join forces when they discover a plot that could turn […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:73 |


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