Cannonball Read 18

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Two Sapphics on a Roadtrip, They Might Kiss?

No Rings Attached by Rachel Lacey

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Honestly, I have read fics with basically this premise a lot over the years. Someone needs a date to a wedding to avoid awkward family reactions and questions. Someone is asked by a mutual friend to fake it, as a favour. Romance ensues. Fortunately for everyone involved (me, you, other readers, the author), No Rings Attached has way more nuance and way less badly written gender identities than those examples. No Rings Attached is Rachel Lacey’s follow up to Read Between the Lines focusing on […]

Writing Your Own Happy Ending

Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey

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This one grew on me after kind of a rocky start. A combination of it taking it’s time working through an awkward setup and taking some time to warm up to the writing style meant that I spent the first couple of sessions pretty cold on the whole thing, but I came around by the mid point. Rosie and Jane are many things to each other – Customer and bookshop owner, author and reader, twitter mutuals with a budding friendship, Awkardly, between an online pseudonym […]

Another mediocre You’ve Got Mail retelling.

Read Between the Lines (Ms. Right, #1) by Rachel Lacey

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I liked this, but not nearly as much as I wanted to. I don’t think I knew this was a You’ve Got Mail retelling when I put this on my TBR, but maybe I did and I’ve just forgotten. Either way, it took me by surprise when the references started piling up: There’s a dog named Brinkley, a woman who owns a bookshop she inherited from her mother and who has a picture of her mother on the counter of the two of them dancing; the […]

Road Trip Romance

No Rings Attached by Rachel Lacey

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Lia is on the hunt for a fake girlfriend to go to her brother’s wedding with her, and her best friend Rosie offers up her childhood friend Grace as an option. Sparks fly when the two meet, but Grace has a complicated past and is wary of relationships. This is the second book in the series, but reads perfectly well as a stand-alone. Though the story starts off with the fake-dating trope, things quickly heat up between the couple until they enter a complicated relationship […]



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