Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Let Us Now Praise Jessica Trent

Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

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On the recommendation of Malin and Mrs. Julien, I picked up Lord of Scoundrels over a year ago. I had a hard time getting past the prologue. Finally, with permission from Our Ladies of the Kissing Books, I skipped the prologue and a chunk of the first chapter. I was going through a reviewing slump when I read the book, so, um, it’s been a while. Here is faintingviolet‘s review. Somehow I shall endeavor to say different things, but this is what I would have said if she hadn’t said it first. First we meet a bunch of dumb guys. […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:48 |

Revisiting a classic I had seriously forgotten every aspect of – also, Cannonball

Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas

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Sara Fielding and Derek Craven have a hell of a “meet-cute”. While researching her future novel in one of the seedier corners of the East End, Sara comes across Craven being held down and attacked by two thugs. They’ve slashed his face open, and she intends only to fire a warning shot from her pistol (which sh obviously keeps in her reticule for defencive purposes), when she instead ends up killing one of the assailants. She discovers that the man whose life she saved is the legendary gambling club owner Derek Craven, and takes him back to his club to […]

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5/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:52 |

Lovers to friends to lovers

Charlie All Night by Jennifer Crusie

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4.5 stars Alice “Allie” McGuffey is the best radio producer WBBB in Tuttle, Ohio has ever had and it’s pretty much the unspoken truth that she’s the reason the radio station runs as well as it does. She loves her job and thrives on it, so when the radio station’s current Drivetime star, Mark King, who up until two months ago was her lover, tells her that she’s been moved to a different time slot, and from now on, he’ll be using Lisa, her former intern as his producer, Allie is not happy. It’s not like Bill Bonner, the radio […]

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5/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:51 |

The plot of this book pretty much has everything…and then some

Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas

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Miss Wilhelmina “Lily” Lawson, also known in much of London as “Lawless Lily” is estranged from her family, but has been able to live independently due to a large inheritance from an eccentric aunt. When she’s not shocking society with her wild antics, she’s known to keep company with notorious gambling hell owner Derek Craven, and the most popular rumour is that she is his mistress. When Lily is visited by an old family friend, Zachary, Lord Stamford, she discovers that her gentle younger sister Penelope is engaged to marry the haughty Alex, Lord Wolverton, the Earl of Raiford. As […]

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5/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

“I would really like to know”, he said with genuine curiosity. “The next time I kill someone, I’d like to do it in a way that doesn’t freak you out.”

Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars This book originally came out back in 2014, but was re-released earlier this year, after the two planned sequels took longer to produce than planned. The second book in the trilogy will now be out at the end of May, while the third and final book comes out in July. I’m giddy with anticipation and have already pre-ordered the sequels. My first review of the book can be found here. Spoiler warning! This review will mainly deal with my thoughts of re-reading it, and where I hope the authors will take the series in upcoming books. So if you […]

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5/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:49 |

A historical romance with lies, angst, an opportunistic heroine and a hero with amnesia

A Lady's Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran

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Jane Mason is an heiress, but her money is being slowly embezzled by her unscrupulous relatives to further her uncle’s unscrupulous political career and she’s being kept far away in the country, to make sure she can’t meet anyone who might marry her. Her aunt and uncle plan to marry her off to her cousin, and eventually, Jane reluctantly agrees on the condition that she get a season in London first. She hopes to meet another suitable man she can convince to elope with her, offering him a share of her father’s vast fortune as long as she is free […]

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5/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:48 |

Hello darkness, my old friend

White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

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3.5 stars This is book seven in an ongoing series. Not the place to start. The review will also contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. Begin with Dead Witch Walking, if you’re interested. For someone who was really rather sceptical to anything but earth magic, considering even layline magic a bit suspect at the beginning of this series, independent runner (think supernatural private detective/bounty hunter) Rachel Morgan has sure come a long way. Now she’s not only a fairly adept layline witch, but her blood (thanks to a rare genetic abnormality) can kindle demon magic and because of […]

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5/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:47 |

A YA retelling of You’ve Got Mail that’s much better than the film, in my opinion

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

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4.5 stars Bailey “Mink” Rydell and “Alex” have been chatting on a movie message board for months and both absolutely love classic movies. They have hit it off to the point where “Alex” invites “Mink” to his hometown to come see North by Northwest at an outdoor screening on the beach at the annual film festival being arranged in Coronado Cove. Bailey’s parents got divorced a few years back, and now that Bailey’s mother seems to be divorcing her new husband as well, Bailey has chosen to go stay with her father, who coincidentally lives in the same little surfer town […]

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5/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

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