Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A romance I read back in March

It Takes Two by Jenny Holiday

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15-word review: Bridesmaid Wendy keeps hooking up with former crush Noah, who’s the brother of the bride. Wendy’s best friend Jane (from One and Only) is getting married, and she’s delighted to be asked to be the maid of honour. Unfortunately, the best man is the bride’s older brother, Noah, who Wendy nursed a crush on for pretty much her entire adolescence until he broke her heart by standing her up at the prom. She has spent most of her adult life going on strategic […]

Holiday tropes and enemies to geeky lovers makes for a fun read at Christmas

So this is Christmas by Jenny Holiday

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On Friday afternoon I stepped into the security line at the airport to look down at a message that just arrived on my phone, my flight had been delayed by an hour.  Now facing three hours at the airport instead of two, I went to the nearest store selling books.  While pondering what to get, I started putting titles and authors into Cannonball Read to see what others had to say.  Thus far no one has reviewed, So This is Christmas.  However, both Emmalita and Malin […]

A New York lit professor and a playboy European aristocrat fall in love in a romance with not one, but two Christmases

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

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CBR14 Bingo: Holiday (a Christmas romance written by an author called Holiday – boom!) Maximillian “Max” von Hansburg, popularly known in the tabloids worldwide as “the Depraved Duke”, is in fact, merely a baron. He is the eldest son and heir to the Duke of Aquilla, however, and he doesn’t really mind his playboy reputation very much. While in New York to fulfill family obligations and meet a prospective bride that his parents might approve of, he decides to have some fun instead and contacts […]

“There was an existing meddling infrastructure just waiting to be activated.”

Sandcastle Beach by Jenny Holiday

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Accidentally picked up the second in a series before reading the first, but it works fine as a standalone too. Plot: Maya loves her small town so much that when she finished her theatre degree, rather than stay in Toronto and access the biggest opportunities as an actor in Canada, she went home, bought a broken down theatre, and worked her ass off to try and enrich the town’s culture. Only the theatre is even more broken down than she realized, and making massive repairs […]

some out of season books courtesy procrastination

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

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The thing I liked BEST about this book is the length of time the story took: a FULL YEAR, my friends! That’s right, between when this story started and when it finished an entire calendar year (one Christmas to the next, if I’m not mistaken) passes! That’s an entire year of our main characters getting to know one another, becoming friends, getting closer…the stuff that all my romantic dreams are made of. Here in the other corner we have 80% of romance novels, wherein characters […]



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