small town life

A satisfying end to a romance series

Nobody but You by Jill Shalvis

July 9, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

This is the third and final book in the Cedar Ridge series. I have reviewed the first two books in the series, Second Chance Summer and My Kind of Wonderful for previous Cannonballs. You don’t have to have read these to get the book to make sense, but it has more emotional resonance if you’ve at least read book 2 (which is about this hero’s twin brother). Jacob and Hudson Kincaid’s mother started getting dementia at an early age, and it became very difficult for the twins to manage the household with an absent father and a sick mother. As it turns out, they were not their […]

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7/9/2019 | Malin's CBR11 Review No:37 |

Single mums need love too

The First Time at Firelight Falls by Julie Anne Long

June 24, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

Ten years ago, Eden Harwood had a daughter, Annelise, and she has refused to tell anyone who the mystery dad is. Working as a florist, volunteering in the PTA, she’s dedicated herself to being the only parent her daughter could need and giving her the best upbringing she possibly can, to the point where pretty much every moment of her existence is scheduled. She doesn’t have time for anything except work and her daughter. Recently, though, Annelise has become more interested in the idea of a dads and what hers is like. Gabe Caldera is used to the attention of […]

6/24/2018 Malin's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Would probably make for a pretty decent rom com

It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis

November 17, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Ali Winters discovers in short order that the lease to the house she was living in with her boyfriend has not been renewed, that her boyfriend has already moved out and doesn’t seem to want her to continue being with him, in fact he has been cheating on her for some time. She’s discovered in a state of partial undress by the actual owner of the house, while she’s leaving a very strongly worded voice mail on her boyfriend’s answerphone. When she’s also accused of stealing a large amount of money from her boyfriend’s office, her life really […]

11/17/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:101 |

Spoiler alert: there is very little dancing, and none that can be described as dirty in this book

Dirty Dancing at Devil's Leap by Julie Anne Long

September 11, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

Avalon Harwood and Maximillian “Mac” Coltrane spent pretty much every summer together growing up, when the wealthy Coltrane family visited their giant mansion. First they were the best of friends, which developed into something more, until at seventeen, Mac broke Avalon’s heart when she heard him talking dismissively about her to his father. They never saw each other again, until now. In the intervening years, Avalon has developed a highly successful app and runs her own tech company out of San Francisco. Mac’s father was arrested for fraud and embezzling and his family lost all their money. No one really […]

9/11/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:82 |

This was nice, but nothing I’m likely to remember in a month or two

My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis

September 10, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Bailey Moore was given the all clear from the cancer which dominated every aspect of her life since she was sixteen, and now has a sort of reverse bucket list. While she was sick, she didn’t really imagine much of a future for herself, but now there are just so many things she’d like to do. One of her first items is skiing in the Rocky Mountains, so she goes to the Cedar Ridge skiing resort, but mis-reads the map and ends up having to be rescued by ski patrol leader and co-owner of the resort, Hudson Kincaid. […]

9/10/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:81 |

Lovers to friends to lovers

Charlie All Night by Jennifer Crusie

May 23, 2017 by Malin 2 Comments

4.5 stars Alice “Allie” McGuffey is the best radio producer WBBB in Tuttle, Ohio has ever had and it’s pretty much the unspoken truth that she’s the reason the radio station runs as well as it does. She loves her job and thrives on it, so when the radio station’s current Drivetime star, Mark King, who up until two months ago was her lover, tells her that she’s been moved to a different time slot, and from now on, he’ll be using Lisa, her former intern as his producer, Allie is not happy. It’s not like Bill Bonner, the radio […]

5/23/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:51 |

Reading YA frequently makes me very happy I never have to revisit my teenage years

Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

May 9, 2017 by Malin 2 Comments

Lula and Rory are basically the “Weird Girl and What’s His Name” of the title. Odd-ball teenagers in the little town of Hawthorne, North Carolina. They are best friends, sharing an interest for fantasy and sci-f, but their deepest and most abiding love is for the TV show The X-Files, being active in the online fan community and writing a joint blog where they analyse and comment on the episodes. Both have been abandoned by parents. Rory lives alone with his alcoholic mother, while Lula is obsessed with her missing mother, who at least left her to be raised by […]

5/9/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:43 |

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