Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search This Site

A historical romance with ice smugglers (bingo)

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah Maclean

by 2 Comments

#CBR11 Bingo: History Schmistory (set in the Victorian era) On the eve of her twenty-ninth birthday, Lady Henrietta “Hattie” Sedly, aided by her best friend Lady Eleonora (Nora), the daughter of a duke, is planning on going to an exclusive brothel in Covent Garden catering to women. She needs to lose her virginity, so her father will stop trying to pressure her into marriage. Firmly on the shelf, Hattie has discovered that despite a generous dowry, no one actually wants to marry her. She’s too tall, too voluptuous, her face is too plain, she’s too smart, too opinionated, too interested in […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "A historical romance with ice smugglers (bingo)"

8/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |

The devil you know

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean

by Leave a Comment

This is book one in the Bareknuckle Bastards series, which has a rather complicated premise that takes the reader a little too long to figure out at the start.  There is a prologue regarding three boys born to three women on the same day that are illegitimate and one girl born the same day who may or may not be a duke’s daughter.  From there the first chapter jumps into action with a mysterious stranger planning to sneak into a ball held in honor of the new Duke of Marwick.  He gets distracted by a young woman who picks a […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "The devil you know"

2/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

A revenge plot that thankfully goes completely wrong

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean

by Leave a Comment

Felicity Faircloth may be the daughter of an Earl, but she is now on the fringes of society and her family desperately need her to land a rich husband, sooner rather than later, please. She’s not at all happy to discover just how dire the family’s finances are (and that they’ve kept the truth from her for over a year), but she may have just doomed them all, but telling a very inconvenient lie at a ball held by the reclusive Duke of Marwick. The lie – that she’s in fact already betrothed to marry him. Imagine her surprise when […]

Share the post "A revenge plot that thankfully goes completely wrong"

12/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:106 |

A scandal in London

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

by Leave a Comment

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve found that when I’m backpacking, I do very well with romances. They are entertaining enough to keep my attention in physically uncomfortable circumstances, when exhaustion can make it hard to focus. And as long as I avoid thrillers, they are not scary enough to make me nervous when I’m sleeping alone in the woods. Knowing I was going on a trip, I picked up A Scot in the Dark (2016) by Sarah MacLean. Lillian Hargrove is a beautiful red-haired woman who, after her father’s death when she was a child, has grown up under […]

Share the post "A scandal in London"

11/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

I just didn’t care…at all

The Day of the Duchess by Sarah Maclean

by 1 Comment

2.5 stars Three years ago, Seraphina “Sera” Bevingstoke, Duchess of Haven, miscarried her daughter (seriously this is NOT a spoiler, it happens in like the second or third chapter) and was persuaded by the Dowager Duchess of Haven that maybe it was best if she just disappeared. With financial help from her antagonistic mother-in-law, Sera flees her disaster of a marriage and goes to America, where she finds a business partner and something she enjoys doing enough to dull the pain in her heart. But to fully be the person she needs to become, she requires a divorce. So she […]

Share the post "I just didn’t care…at all"

4/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

I think we all know what’s under the kilt

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

by 1 Comment

3.5 stars. I’m a little picky when it comes to romances, but I had such a good time with The Wedding Date that I was in the mood for another. Very happy to report that my second attempt at a Sarah MacLean was successful! Lillian Hargrove, orphaned at a young age, grew up pretty sheltered. When she falls in love with an unscrupulous, but talented rake, she allows herself to be painted nude. Said rake promises Lily that it’s just for him and that they’ll soon be husband and wife. Unsurprisingly, a proposal never materializes. The painting however, does materialize […]

Share the post "I think we all know what’s under the kilt"

3/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

Alpha Hero to Alpha Feminist

The Day of The Duchess by Sarah MacLean

by 1 Comment

The Day of The Duchess made it on to Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best romances of the year list. It’s also notable because MacLean tore up an earlier version and rewrote her hero, Malcom, Duke of Haven, in response to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. I’ve linked to the piece she wrote explaining that, but if you aren’t a Washington Post subscriber, I pasted most of the text below. This is a second chance at love story. Malcolm and Seraphina fell passionately and inappropriately in love. Something happened, they married, he threw her out, she […]

Share the post "Alpha Hero to Alpha Feminist"

12/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:119 |

Perhaps I Am Not the One Who Is Broken

The Rules of Scoundrels Series, Books 1 & 2 by Sarah Maclean

by 7 Comments

Warning: The following review contains spoilers and feminist rallying cries I’ve read a handful of historical romance novels, including a weird period in my life where I was briefly into pioneer-era mail-order-bride stories, of which there are a surprising number. (Less surprising, however, than the number of “Earth woman becomes mated to a pair of sexy alien warlords who are sometimes also brothers” stories, which is apparently a genre that exists.) It’s not that I think love stories are inherently bad, or that enjoying them makes you a bad feminist. I’m still peeved about the time when a former roommate […]

Share the post "Perhaps I Am Not the One Who Is Broken"

1/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:14 |


Follow CBR on Instagram

Shop on Amazon and Support CBR

Buy Original Cannonballer Prisco's book and help CBR!

Ad Partner