Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hot eventually gets boring, but funny never does.

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

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People are way freakier than we acknowledge. Attraction has to do with so many things besides appearance. Hot eventually gets boring but funny never does. ― Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy Another of my pet peeves is that the female characters used to be all sort of cutesy, like having flour on their nose after they baked cookies and not knowing it. And now they’re all a mess, like waking up really hungover and getting fired. I want to create characters who aren’t flawless but also […]

Push their faces together and make them kiss already

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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When her gaze finally reached his face, she had to swallow a sigh and bury it where nobody would ever find it. But how could she help it? His jaw was sharp and angled enough that it could be a weapon itself, strong enough to make her insides quiver. Don’t let him quiver your insides, Evie. ― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain When she cannot find a job, Evie stumbles into the new role of the assistant to The Villain. Not “a” villain […]

Holding out for a hero

Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon

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Sloan is a single mother with twin six-year-old daughters. After leaving her emotionally abusive husband in Seattle, she is now living in L.A. Sloan hopes that a fresh start far from her ex and his manipulative behavior will allow her and her girls to thrive. Sloan is a surgeon and works long hours. When her live-in nanny quits without any notice, Sloan scrambles to find a suitable replacement as soon as possible. A colleague recommends a nanny whose family recently relocated to Australia. Sloan has […]

You okay?” “I think so.” A more accurate response would have been clinically alive but dead inside, but that probably wasn’t appropriate with strangers.

Skin and Bones: London Love Book Three by Sophia Soames

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Mark nodded. “And you should take Hugo. Get some sea air in his lungs. Get shat on by some seagulls.” “Bloody seagulls.” “Sandy beaches, open spaces. Who needs shit like that?” “Nobody,” I agreed. “Fucking nobody.” ― Sophia Soames, Skin and Bones The quote above is the only one I highlighted while reading. And it perfectly encapsulates why I adore Sophia Soames’s writing. This is the third Soames book I’ve read in the past six months, and the second one I have read this year. […]

Cute contemporary, bantery, love to hate to love romance.

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This book isn’t normally my genre (contemporary, or contemporary romance). But I make exceptions if I’ve read and liked books by the author before, or if someone whose tastes that are similar to mine says a book is worth checking out. Dating You / Hating You fits into both categories. I loved this author duo’s YA book Autoboyography when I read it last month, and this book in particular was a favorite of y’all here at the CBR romance reading hivemind when it first came […]



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