Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She had sex before pizza, which didn’t surprise her in the least.

Identity by Nora Roberts

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I have an occasional argument with a friend who is certain that Nora Roberts has a stable of ghost writers and I am certain that she writes every word of her own books because the author voice is so consistent. I haven’t actually read a new Nora Roberts book in a few years, but Identity was like putting on an old familiar sweater. Of course Nora Roberts has evolved as an author over her 40+ year career, but I still know a Nora Roberts book […]

A late-night romance adventure in Vegas

Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai

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I was lucky to read an ARC of Alisha Rai’s Partners in Crime. My friend Sarah also demanded I read it. She wanted someone to gush about it with before the release. After I read Emmalita’s rave review, I simply had to read it ASAP. It was a tough ask because I have a TBR mountain of books in my house. I did manage to read it before hosting the author’s LA launch event at The Ripped Bodice. We meet the beautiful Mira as she […]

‘From the first moment he’d seen her picture in the file they’d been given, he’d been curious about this woman.’

Securing Piper by Susan Stoker

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After the orphanage that Piper was visiting is attacked by rebel forces, she barely escapes with her life – and three orphans. Determined to adopt the girls, she marries one of her rescuers, Ace. But it’s not all smooth sailing from there… I remember sitting up and taking notice when I first read the synopsis of this book, because it sounded exactly up my alley. A marriage-of-convenience! Adopted children! Peril in foreign climes! And as usual Stoker delivered in spades. The author unabashedly pulls on […]

Good job, Past Me

Hideaway by Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts is one of my go-to authors – if I’m looking for a book that is just dependable for an entertaining read, I know she’s not going to let me down. She used to be a ‘read immediately upon publication’ author, but I find that if I save her new-to-me-books for days when I just can’t get into anything, or when I’m on day three of a migraine (the day that’s more like a migraine hangover for me, where I can kind of focus, […]

Travel Back to 2004

Never Tell by Selena Montgomery

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One of the moments I enjoyed a lot last year was when I asked a group of people if they knew Stacey Abrams wrote romance novels. They did not. I blew their minds. When I had an opportunity to read an arc of the rerelease of Never Tell, I jumped at it. The book was originally published in 2004. At this point in my life, I’m not really looking for romantic suspense stories. I also don’t read true crime stories involving murder. It’s not a […]

For The Good of Mankind

Whiteout by Adriana Anders

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Here’s how my brain works: I was still swooning over Giulio and Zahra’s Italian lessons in The Hitman and I suddenly flashed to Jerusha and Karl’s sex lessons in Daddy Crush, so obviously I had to reread that. I realized on rereading that I hadn’t given Adriana Anders enough credit for the joyful way Jerusha discovers her own body and sharing experiences with Karl. I also hadn’t realized that the forehead press could be as sexy as a doorway lean. I bend down, tangle my fingers […]



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