Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Widow author and bad boy rock star – the book is really good!

True North by Liora Blake

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Kate Mosely is a widow living alone and rather lonely in the little town of Crowell, Montana. She more or less runs the local newspaper she inherited from her father (with help from his old business partner), but her small claim to fame is writing a novel that’s become a bestseller, much thanks to her persistent and aggressive literary agent, Stephen. Now, hoping to create more buzz for the book, as well as spurring Kate into writing a second novel, he’s booked her on several TV appearances in LA. Kate is to appear first on a prestigious late night talk […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:72 |

Kirkus thought this book was better than The Hating Game. Kirkus is very wrong

Wild at Whiskey Creek by Julie Anne Long

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3.5 stars Glory Hallelujah (yup, that’s actually her name) Greenleaf is the only one in her family who’s never broken the law or deviated from the straight and narrow. Unlike most of her other family members, who only seem to leave Hellcat Canyon to go to prison or when they die, Glory was going to become a star, using her songwriting and singing talent to make it big. Of course, then her brother Jonah was arrested for meth dealing and she had to use all her savings to help pay her mother’s mortgage, and now she’s still impatiently cooling her […]

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12/27/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:128 |

Utterly forgettable. Read Courtney Milan’s Unraveled instead

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Sophie Darling (sadly nowhere near as awesome as my favourite romance heroine with Darling as a surname) is on her way to a job interview in London and unexpectedly and happily finds herself upgraded to first class. Her joy is somewhat lessened when very handsome, but supremely grouchy Gabriel “Scottie” Scott is seated next to her, outraged that one of the two seats he’s purchased has been allotted to someone. Nonetheless, cheerful and mischievous Sophie decides to try to crack handsome guy’s crabby demeanour (at this point she doesn’t know his name) by both flirting and teasing him and once […]

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12/26/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:126 |

In which I write meandering reviews for forgettable books, in a desperate bid for the double cannonball

Rock Addiction, Rock Courtship (Rock Kiss #1, 1.5) by Nalini Singh

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I believe it was Mrs. Julien who Malin once said that billionaires and/or rock stars are the Dukes of contemporary romance. That is to say, that there seems to be an endless supply of young, handsome Dukes, rock stars, and billionaires in romance, an abundance which was not and is not supported in real life. (To be pedantic, of course there are still young, handsome musicians, but the rock stars in these books are of the arena sell-out variety that evokes images of the Beatles and their screaming fans. Perhaps the true 2010-era parallel are EDM DJs, but something about […]

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12/26/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:99 |

An unbelievably fertile heroine and a lot of weddings

Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh

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OK, it’s been nearly two months since I finished this, and it wasn’t exactly the most memorable of romances to begin with. Let’s see what I can still remember. Sarah Smith, who never really had a very stable home life, hooks up with rock star Abe Bellamy and ends up pregnant. He wants to do right by her and marries her. She adores him, he seems to like their bedroom antics, but is closed off and withholding emotionally (although secretly, deep down, he clearly cares for her, he just can’t express it – you know the drill). Also, he has […]

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12/17/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:119 |

I think rock stars may be the earls of contemporary romance

Idol by Kristen Callihan

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Liberty “Libby” Bell (yes, her parents named her Liberty when their surname was Bell, I don’t know why you’d do that to a child either!) has been living as a veritable recluse in her grandparents’ old farmhouse on an island in the Carolinas (I think, there’s an author’s note about how the place obviously doesn’t really exist blah blah) since her parents died in a car accident the year before. She apparently makes her living as a book cover designer (cool job – not one I’ve come across in romance before, not that we EVER see her doing any work). […]

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7/9/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:72 |

Runaway bride and out of work guitarist

Dirty by Kylie Scott

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Lydia Green is sent a video of her fiancee making out (and more) with his best friend/best man shortly before she’s supposed to walk down the isle. Utterly humiliated, she leaves her phone on the bed and does the only thing she can think of, run away. Even in full bridal gear, she manages to hoist herself over the very tall fence at the back of the property and climbs in the open window of the house next door. Fairly banged up and utterly devastated, she collapses in the bathtub and bursts into tears. Vaughn Hewson’s career is currently fairly […]

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6/28/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:61 |

Another bearded hero, anyone?

Deep (Stage Dive #4) by Kylie Scott

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Deep is the fourth (final? Probably not?) book in the Stage Dive series, a light and entertaining collection of contemporary rock star romances by Kylie Scott. My favorite is the second, Play, and that’s just because each book in the series features a different hero archetype and I liked him the best. YMMV. Ben, the hero in Deep, is a reformed hipster manchild who accidentally knocks up the heroine, Liz, during a one night stand. Though he promises to be there for her, his definition of how that works is pretty superficial, initially, amounting to little more than dumping money […]

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3/14/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:20 |

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