Cannonball Read 18

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Love couldn’t solve everything, but without love, there was nothing to solve.

40-Love by Olivia Dade

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Swooooooooon. Just swooooooooning allll over the place on this one. When a rogue wave strips Tess Dunn of her bikini top, desperate, half-naked times call for desperate, please-cover-me-kids-are-coming-closer measures. Enter Lucas Karlsson, AKA that flirty Swede in the water nearby. When he prevents her bare buoys from being exposed to fellow vacationers, even an ocean can’t drown the sparks that fly. Tess and her best friend have saved up to take a two week vacation at a luxury beach resort and celebrate Tess’s 40th birthday. […]

A deliciously sweet marshmallow of a book with an unnecessary ending

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

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This book is well loved by Cannonballers. Faintingviolet talked about the kindness with which the characters treat one another. Emmalita pointed out that this was a “robust kindness with boundaries.” And they’re completely right. This book absolutely bursts with the kind of kindness that isn’t rooted in “being nice” but rather in respect. And before I get into this, I just want to say that I really really enjoyed this book and you should read their reviews for how sweet it is. But rather than […]

Another very good romance – this time with leads over 40 and positive fat representation!

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

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In the gift that keeps on giving, my moving romance authors who were vocal during the RWA’s (continuing) implosion to the top of my TBR has led to some solidly stellar reading. Its always nice to remember that smart, bitchy ladies who get mouthy at oppression and racism just write better books. Olivia Dade has been coming after the gatekeepers vocally since at least early 2019 (probably longer, but I’ve only been following her on Twitter about that long) and is just seriously funny. I […]

I am More a Sebastian than a Lucy

Tiny House, Big Love (Love Unscripted 2) by Olivia Dade

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I received this as an arc from the author in exchange for an honest review. Olivia Dade’s books are a lovely smooshy spot in a cold sharp world. In her current series of novellas, Love Unscripted, reality tv shows force non couples into situations where they reevaluate their relationship and finish falling in love. In Tiny House, Big Love Lucy and Sebastián have been friends since they were children, when Sebastián emigrated from Guatemala to Marysburg. Sebastián was bullied and learned not to reveal anything about […]

If You’re Lying, Callie, Do it Well.

Desire and the Deep Blue Sea by Olivia Dade

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Olivia Dade’s Teach Me was one of my favorite books this year. I was thrilled to be offered an ARC for Desire and the Deep Blue Sea by the author in exchange for an honest review. Edit: Today is release day for Desire and the Deep Blue Sea. I decided to come back and look at the review before tweeting it out and posting it on Amazon. I remembered I struggled with this review. Around the time I initially wrote this, my brain was protesting that […]

A Sweet Slow Burn

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

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I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I haven’t read Olivia Dade before. I thought she was one of the authors I follow on Twitter, but she was not. She is now, though. Teach Me was a lovely read with +40 characters who behaved like they had lived lives, and actual positive fat representation. It’s out May 30th. Rose and Martin are teachers at the same high school, both teaching history classes. They are equals in their credentials, but Martin has just […]



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