Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Too Have Succumbed to the Horny Dragon Book

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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Every one hundred years, the royal family of the Sheltered Lands must send one of their bloodline to be the Dragon Lord’s consort.  Sachielle is the latest in a long line.  But she has three secrets: she’s an orphan adopted and trained to seduce the Dragon Lord, her handmaiden and lover, Zanya, is a trained assassin, and finally Sachi is cursed.  Sachi and Zanya have five weeks to kill the Dragon Lord or Sachi will die.  But Ash, the Dragon Lord, is nothing like the […]

A Slightly Uneven Outing That Moves the Story Forward

Daindreth's Sorceress by Elisabeth Wheatley

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Daindreth is free of his curse, and he and Amira are finally married.  However, that doesn’t mean that things are going to be easy for them.  Daindreth needs to take control of the empire, and he knows his mother is still out there.  Vesha, desperate to protect the empire, makes a new bargain with the goddess Moreyne.  As Daindreth and Amira prepare to wage a political battle to take their rightful places ruling the empire, a new threat rises that threatens both their plans and […]

Fake marriage and further hijinks

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton

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Alice Dearlove works for the secret organisation the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, or A.U.N.T., staffed by spies and agents disguised as ladies’ maids, butlers, footmen, and other household staff who mostly go unnoticed by the higher classes, but are usually in a position to see and hear everything. She’s one of their top agents, known within A.U.N.T only as Agent A. Usually, Miss Dearlove works alone and gets excellent results while doing so. Now she faces one of the biggest challenges of her career. […]

Magical queer historical romance

Of Socialites and Prizefights by Arden Powell

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Arden Powell has been on my radar for a while and I’ve been collecting their books, but lesbians is what finally broke the seal (I am but a simple lesbian lol) and now I want to dive into the whole Flos Magicae backlist to see all the characters in their own stories. Deepa is a singer at a club and doesn’t believe in love, so when one of her paramours curses her to become a leopard every midnight and tells her the only way to […]

Super problems need super friends

Sort of Super V02 The Magma Cup by Eric Gapstur

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They tell me that I am an adult. At least, physically. Mentally? Well that’s totally up for debate. And this is never more plain than when I read a book like Sort of Super V02 The Magma Cup by Eric Gapstur. I have read and reviewed volume one, and do recommend reading the first volume well, first as a lot of book two is a continuation from one, however, with a lot of new goodies as well.  A quick summary of book one: Wyatt Flynn […]

Outside of their comfort zone

Haru: Book 1: Spring by Joe Latham

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Haru: Book 1: Spring by Joe Latham is a fantasy story with the fantasy elements of adventure. There is a ghost mother, a cursed artifact, and magical and magical-like situations. We also have a coming of age aspect with the bullying Haru faces at school. Then there is the character The Dark. It is creepy AF. But also, due to the way Latham has created it, it can be seductive, or at least is (pick one or all that fit), beautiful, romantic, dark, scary, creepy, […]



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