Cannonball Read 18

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The Book of Night by Holly Black

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I saw The Book of Night sitting in the “New This Month!” display at the library when I went to pick up something else. And I love Holly Black, so I took it out on a whim. The Book of Night follows Charlie, a woman who’s spent her whole life making all the wrong decisions. In Charlie’s world, shadows are magic and with the right formulas, can be manipulated, stolen, reattached, or end up as sentient beings. At a young age, Charlie got into the world of […]

Faking It

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Faking It is a rather carefully contrived series of coincidences, but then, most romances are.  I like Jennifer Crusie’s novels because the heroines are rarely 20 year old waifs.  Matilda Goodnight is definitely not a 20 year old waif.  Neither is she cosmetic-ad gorgeous.  She’s struggling to hold together a family and a failed art gallery when a problem from her past announces itself, propelling her from mural painting to art theft in a single evening.  And Davy Dempsey, the brother of Sophie Dempsey (Welcome […]

A historical romance with a lot of stealing and scheming

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3.5 stars Philip Astonley, youngest son of the Viscount Felkoner, also known as the Falcon to a select few (which is surprising to me as it’s not exactly a secret identity very different from his family name), is hired by the wealthy and powerful Marquess of Hedgrave to steal a sandalwood statue and bring it from India to England. He can barely believe his luck when he discovers that the statue is given as a gift to Miss Amanda Davencourt as a farewell gift from […]



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