Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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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 […]

CBR BINGO: And—”I think this might actually be happening. I think I might be trapped in my own personal Enchanted, and I’m Patrick Dempsey.”

Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood

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For context, I have been allergic to all romance not written by Cat Sebastian, Alexis Hall, or K.J. Charles for almost two years. I finished Romantic Hero first thing this morning and was super tempted to just slap five stars on it, because I’m so happy that I found another romance author that works for my brain. Which means, they actually know how to write. Like, the actual SKILL of it. THE CRAFT. Kirsty Greenwood can write! She knows how to pace a book. She […]

A promising debut cozy fantasy romance that didn’t quite fully hit.

Letters from the Last Apothecary by Bita Behzadi

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Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House | Hay House LLC for the Audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This is a promising debut by Bita Behzadi, and I will be reading further books from her, but this one had some issues that mean I can’t give it a full four stars. Mostly, I had a really hard time both getting in to the story, and caring about the characters. It took about 33% for the first, and about 60% for […]

she’s got bollocks the size of blimps

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1) by Brigitte Knightley

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Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group | Ace for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This book should not have worked! But, it really did. At least for me. This is an enemies to lovers slow burn romance set in an alternate Earth where magic is real. (Actual, real enemies, mind you, not just rivals or people who are annoyed at each other.) Aurienne is a gifted healer in an order of healers who is contacted by Osric, an eeeevil […]

This one’s for the bisexuals.

With Love, From Cold World by Alicia Thompson

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 18/30 Alicia Thompson is reliably smart and funny in all her romance books, and her characters have such heart. The setting in this one is also really fun: a tourist attraction in or near Orlando called Cold World, where it is winter all year long. Both of our main characters work there—Asa for over ten years (he’s been there since his family kicked him out for being bisexual), and Lauren for just over two (she is the […]

Also, it’s a crime that no one in the book or in the acknowledgements noted that this is also the plot of High Fidelity.

Exes & O's by Amy Lea

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 3/30 Well, I slept on this one overnight and I’m glad I did. Sometimes the things that stay with you about a book are the bothersome bits, the annoyances, making the reading experience sour in your memory, and sometimes what floats to the top are the moments of cute banter and cuddling, and just overall positive feelings. The latter is the case here, so while I thought this was a bit wobbly in parts and found the […]



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