Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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 |

“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 |

Yeah, I needed to upgrade the rating for this a bit

Dukes Prefer Blondes by Loretta Chase

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4.5 stars My first review of this book can be found here. It was the very first book I read in 2016 and having revisited it, I have decided that I may in fact have overly strict with my rating of it. Since I already recounted the plot and gave a thorough analysis for my feelings about the book there, that’s the place to go if you’re curious about what the book is about. This review will be more about my re-read and the audio book experience. After finishing Where Dreams Begin, where (SPOILER) the heroine is struck down with […]

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5/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

A witch, a vampire and a pixie walk into a bar

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

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Rachel Morgan is an earth witch (which means she uses wooden charms activated with drops of her own blood to do magic, as opposed to layline witches who draw their power from laylines) and works for the IS (Inderland Security), a police force consisting of supernaturals like witches, living vampires, werewolves, fairies and pixies. They police the supernatural crimes, while the FIB (Federal Inderland Bureau) is its mundane, human counterpart. For the last year, Rachel has had a run of truly awful assignments and what seems like very bad luck on top of things. She’s sick and tired of being […]

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3/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

“We’re of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.”

The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase

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Another re-read of one of my all-time favourites, once again narrated by the excellent Kate Reading. Vere Mallory becomes the Duke of Ainswood after pretty much every other male in his family line dies, including several family members he cared deeply for, and he’s quite happy to drink and debauch himself into an early grave so the accursed title can’t take anyone else, thank you very much. An endless existence of carousing gets tedious after a while, though, and once he crosses paths with Miss Lydia Grenville, the formidable investigative female journalist doing her best to inspire reform in London’s […]

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3/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Always re-read your books, people. You never know what you’ll find if you go digging back in there.

American Gods: The 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman

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I first read American Gods when I was twenty-five. It was only my second Neil Gaiman book; I’d read Stardust several months earlier and completely fell in love with it, so it seemed like a no-brainer to give this one a go, since so many people were over the moon about it. What I found was not what I expected. The book is long and meandering. Its characters inhabit the grey areas of the world. They do gross things, immoral things, right alongside utterly mundane and profound things. They murder and cheat and rob. They love and live and die. And it was a subtle […]

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3/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

The last Bridgerton sibling finds his match…eventually

On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn

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Gregory Bridgerton is the second youngest of eight siblings and the last of the Bridgerton offspring to remain single. Having seen all of his siblings settle into loving marriages, he is certainly a believer in true love. He just hasn’t met the right woman yet. He’s quite convinced he’ll know once he finally meets the one. Only, when Gregory finally falls in love with a woman, the charming and stunning Miss Hermione Watson, she’s already in love with another man. Her father’s secretary, to be exact. Her best friend, the practical and constantly-overlooked Miss Lucinda “Lucy” Abernathy, wants to save […]

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6/12/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:56 |

When you are imagining, you may as well imagine something worth while

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are a middle-aged brother and sister who live together and manage the farm of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island in Canada. They intend to take in a small orphan boy to be of help to them on the farm, but due to a mix-up, little eleven-year-old Anne Shirley is sent to them instead. Matthew, who is extremely shy, especially around women, nonetheless warms to the loquacious and imaginative child and after hearing a bit about the hardships the orphan girl has suffered before she arrived with the Cuthberts, Marilla doesn’t have the heart to send […]

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2/27/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:24 |

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