Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I’ve been around off and on since the first year of CBR, and it and books have been a constant in my life through multiple moves and a major career change. I live with 3 cats, Dany, Jace and Jorah. Fantasy, specific types of sci-fi, historical fiction (especially mysteries) and romance tend to be my go to genres now a days. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Jen K's Quick Questions interview.)

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And Now We Check in With the Rest of Europe

The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon

The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon

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Book 4: The Mask Falling Not sure why I didn’t write this one earlier in the year, since I wrote the reviews for books 1-3 fairly soon after reading. Maybe just too much of the same thing at once? This is the fourth novel of the series, and like the previous ones, this ends up expanding the world quite a bit, following Paige and Arcturus to Paris. Paige needed out of England after the last one, and she owes the organization for they help they […]

Basketball & Mayhem with a side of honey cake

To Kill a Badger by Shelly Laurenston

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As the sixth novel in the Honey Badger Chronicles (and who even knows what number in Laurenston’s extended shifter universe), readers will know exactly what they are getting into with this one. After the first three novels focused on the MacKilligan sisters finding hijinks and love, the following three have followed Max’s basketball team members as they get closer to the O’Malley brothers (Siberian tiger shifters). Laurenston knows that we are primarily here for the sisters, and especially Charlie, so unlike other romance series where […]

It’s me, not you … to the entire sub genre of cozy fantasy

Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree

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This simply wasn’t the year for me and cozy fantasy. I don’t think I was in quite the right headspace for it so I didn’t enjoy these types of novels nearly as much as in other years, even when it was authors I previously enjoyed. It’s not that every novel needs to be gripping epic fantasy but even for my lighter reads, I just tended to want something that was a bit more fast paced. For this reason, I was slightly dreading this novel even […]

A Dark Force Rising

Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon

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Even though I enjoy everything I have read by Samantha Shannon and pre-ordered this as soon as I heard about it, I then waited till this past week to read it. I think with this universe in particular, even though Shannon very much made these novels independent enough that they don’t require reading the others to get the story, I still worry about trying to remember and fit them in the larger context before I start reading. I really am overthinking it and creating my […]

Overthinking a romance inspired by Hannah Montana

Love is a War Song by Danica Nava

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This one had a fun premise and overall, was a light and frothy romance but it could have packed more of an emotional wallop. Everything resolved itself a bit too quickly or didn’t go quite deep enough and stayed rather surface level. Nothing about the romantic couple really stood out though it was of course inevitable that they would get together. There was a quite a bit here about dysfunctional relationships with parents but it doesn’t feel like anything was truly resolved in a meaningful […]

What happened to the Hollow girls?

House of Hollow by Kristin Sutherland

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I remember seeing this a few years ago when it came out and thinking it sounded interesting but being on the fence about whether to read it. It was on sale recently so I immediately picked it up. While this is horror, it’s more on the eery/creepy side of the genre than incredibly scary. The Hollow sisters disappeared ten years ago for 30 days, but didn’t remember anything about where they had been or what had happened when they returned. Since then, there have been […]



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