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I am named after my mother’s unhappiness.

Evvie Drakes Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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CBR11 BINGO: PAJIBA BINGO! (Remix Corner to Cannonballer Says Corner) I think it’s often easy to overlook books that, on the surface, seem like easy reads or the reading equivalent of a rom-com movie. Books that get characterized as “beach reads” or “kissing books” are easily pigeonholed as entertaining romances devoid of any gravitas. I know there is a strong contingent of Cannonballers who are devout romance readers, so I’m probably preaching to the choir here. You can’t always judge a book by it’s cover, right? Not that I have anything against a little frivolous romp, but it’s nice sometimes, to get a […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

What’s Not to Love?

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

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My romantic expectations hover somewhere between The English Patient and Lust, Caution. (Love is brief and destroys lives. THE END.) Reading The Rosie Project, I found myself loving the dispassionate narrator in spite of myself. Don is bright, witty, and somewhere on the spectrum. Though he has no use for love—he’s busy with his successful career and finds satisfaction in his careful routine—he decides a wife could be a helpful addition to his overall situation. Imagine Mr. Spock going on OKCupid. The author has said that this story started off as a screenplay. It shows, in a good way. Despite […]

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4/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Romantic Comedies are my favorite genre, and these ones are good

Rule Breaker by Lily Morton

Deal Maker by Lily Morton

Risk Taker by Lily Morton

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A couple of weeks ago I discovered a new contemporary LGBTQ romance writer, Roan Parrish, whose work I really enjoyed. Finding a new author is always exciting for me, as I have a tendency to read everything by the authors I like. I’ve been working my way through Roan Parrish’s work, but her books tend towards the heavy and serious, and I found myself looking for something light and romantic…enter this series. Lily Morton’s Mixed Messages series consists of three books: the first book is about Dylan and Gabe, the second is about Dylan’s best friend Jude, and the third […]

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3/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

“Alexa looked down into her coffee again, gazing into the dark brown liquid like it was Dumbledore’s Pensieve”

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

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The Wedding Date, by Jasmine Guillory, is a delightful romcom that doesn’t shy away from some of the tough work involved in interracial relationships. Alexa calls Drew on his privilege many times in the book, and Drew demonstrates that he’s learning. These issues come up throughout the book, but not in a preachy way – in a way that shows a relationship growing and trust developing. Briefly, Alexa and Drew ‘meet cute’ in an elevator, which sets the stage for a fake relationship. Their chemistry is real, however, and eventually real dates ensue. Alexa is the chief of staff to the […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Connie Willis is OBSESSED with communication.

Crosstalk by Connie Willis

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I really, really ended up enjoying this, but it was touch and go there for a bit. Connie Willis’s writing always has this distinct, relentless tone to it, and it gets under your skin until you see where it’s going. I’ve had that same experience with all the books I’ve read by her, although the tone takes a different specific tenor every time. In Doomsday Book it was the tedium of death. In To Say Nothing of the Dog it was the farcical nature of time travel. And here it’s a relentless onslaught of information directed straight towards our narrator, […]

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12/29/2016 's CBR8 Review No:163 |

So Excellent! – CBR 8 – Review #2

So For Real by Rebekah Weatherspoon

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This review covers three romance novellas that read as one larger story – So Sweet, So Good, & So For Real. Rebekah Weatherspoon has been a Must Read author for me since I read the Fit Trilogy last year. So For Real, the final installment in this series, came out a couple of weeks ago and I snapped it right up. Our MC is Kayla Davis – a thick, black, bisexual woman who has just been laid off from her job. Her roommate, Adler, convinces her to sign up for a service that facilitates sugar daddy/baby arrangements so they don’t […]

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12/22/2016 's CBR8 Review No:2 |

This book is book crack.

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

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I fell in love with this book within, like, five minutes of starting it. I had zero problems with it, and I went basically full cartoon heart-eyes* the entire time I was reading it. So, you know, keep that in mind for the rest of this review. Critical thinking skills not getting much use here from me. *Or, because I’m watching Steven Universe for the first time right now, we might also say I went full star-eyes. I’m halfway through season one right now and already loving it. I’m sooooo glad I have CBR to recommend books like this to me, […]

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10/31/2016 's CBR8 Review No:134 |

The perfect palate cleanser

Ridiculous by DL Carter

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I had no idea what to expect going into Ridiculous, a book that was free on Kindle eons ago and subsequently left to rot in the digital ether. My attitude upon finally starting it was basically “I guess I should get around to reading this old thing,” which is now hilarious because if I had any clue how much I would have enjoyed this book I would have read it immediately. What you have in Ridiculous is a cross-dressing regency romantic comedy. I put it that way because it’s cut from the same cloth of romcom film that populated the […]

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4/28/2016 's CBR8 Review No:33 |


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