Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Zomromcom: Zombies and vampires and love, oh my

Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

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Even after the Harlot’s Bay experience, the newest of Olivia Dade’s works sounded interesting. This takes place in a version of our world where creatures from myth and legend have been revealed to be real by the fact that technology is everywhere and they can no longer hide from cameras and videos. Vampires, werewolves, trolls, fae, witches, etc are all real, and have been forced to start integrating into standard human society. As a result, non-powered humans did some dodgy experiments on themselves to try […]

A Long and Speaking Silence: “Certain Compassion. A wish for kindness, a hope for the future…., and what everyone hopes to find on a journey far from home.”

A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo

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CBR Bingo: Steal – One of the characters, Ha Beili won’t stop stealing things. In her defense, she doesn’t have anything or a job so obtaining necessities through standard means isn’t really available to her. This entry in the Singing Hills Cycle is one of the few, if not the only one, that has sufficient context clues to place it in the timeline of Cleric Chih’s adventures with some amount of confidence. Chih has only recently become a full cleric, and this is one of […]

Tusk Love: D&D and romance, what’s not to love?

Tusk Love by Tea Guanzon

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This book is both precious and horny, delightful and strange. It is a tie-in with a D&D actual play. This is the IRL book version of a fictional book that exists in a Critical Role campaign. Even without that context, I think that Tusk Love is a good story. Guinevere is supposed to appear like your standard DID (damsel in distress). However, she also has a magical secret. She harbors an enthusiastic fire spirit that she is able to keep at bay, but does not understand […]

Harlot’s Bay: A bit hit and miss

At First Spite by Olivia Dade

Second Chance Romance by Olivia Dade

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CBR Bingo: Season – Second Chance Romance is set in autumn, and we see the characters dressing for the season on at least one of their dates. I really like (most of) Olivia Dade’s Spoiler Alert series, so I decided to give her other work a try. I ended up DNFing At First Spite, but did finish Second Chance Romance even if I was a bit unenthusiastic about it. At First Spite Even from the beginning, I didn’t love this one. The premise is that the […]

Some novellas as a little treat

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Repair – In Automatic Noodle, the characters not only literally work to repair themselves and each other because they are robots who need repair after a few months of being shut down, but they also work to repair the reputation of their restaurant so they can grow it into a thriving establishment. CBR Bingo: Refuge – In Nine Goblins, Sings-To-Trees has created a refuge where magical and non-magical creatures alike can come for help. Automatic Noodle Automatic Noodle takes places in the not-too-distant […]

The Stardust Grail: The real treasure is the friends we made along the way

The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

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CBR Bingo: Friends – The Stardust Grail explores different types of relationships and the nature of what we owe to each other based on those relationships. Auncle and Maya are friends and their friendship has taken them across the universe together, but as they embark on this last adventure they grapple with figuring how whose needs get prioritized – Auncle’s desire to become a parent and ensure that the Frenro can continue existing or Maya and humanity’s ability to stay connected to the rest of […]



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