Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Couple of Witchy Rom-coms

Witchful Thinking by Celestine Martin

The Witch is Back by Sophie H. Morgan

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I love supernatural rom-coms, especially ones about witches. Here are two I read in October. Both with punny titles. Witchful Thinking by Celestine Martin Lucy Carraway is a witch about to go to her ten-year High School reunion. She wishes she could brag about all of her accomplishments, but she feels like she has been stuck in a rut after never leaving her small town. One night, she and her sisters, who are also her coven, use their grandmother’s Wish Spell and Lucy finds that […]

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

The Hourglass Throne: The Tarot Sequence Book Three by K.D. Edwards

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“Maybe it’s time we get candid,” I suggested. Lady Death sighed. “Rune, it’s not as if we have orientation materials. There’s not a training module titled Shit We Keep Secret. I finished this at 2am this morning and I’m deep in book hangover-mode. Every few years, a series comes along that completely captures my heart, and this is the one for 2023. I adore these books. I am enthralled. Spoilers for The Hanged Man (book 2) below:   After claiming the Sun throne, Rune is […]

CBRBINGO – ADULTHOOD: “For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered.”

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

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I loved this! I’m so glad I loved it, also, because I own two copies of it and I don’t want to get rid of either one. They are PRETTY. The American cover I love so much, I want a poster-sized print of it for my wall. And my other edition has a beautiful gilded map on the endpapers with Amina and Payasam on either end, and little ships and sea beasts sprayed on the edges. I would have CRIED had I not loved this […]

I think the author needed a nap

Animals Rule This Land by Luke Milton

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The only reason I am reviewing Animals Rule This Land by Luke Milton is because I know someone will appreciate this, while having some clever moments but overall violent situations which can be downright oogy moments and which can really be a turn-off, graphic novel due mid-March 2024. The concept is when animals rule, humans drool. Or worse. Like getting dead worse. Therefore, if you are warped (and I mean that with much love), go for it. Though teens can read, I won’t recommend it […]

The ghosts are in the house

Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl

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Do you like Roald Dahl? Why do you like him? His funny (to some) stories? The weirdness? The messages? The writing style? Well, forget all of that when you approach Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories. Long story short, Dahl edited the stories in this collection to find “the best of thriller/ghost short stories.” They are classically presented, and if you told me they were written by people like Dickens, or O’Henry, or even Poe I would not be surprised. I am assuming I have […]

I turned my worry into anger, and my anger into fuel.

The Hanged Man: The Tarot Sequence Book Two by K.D. Edwards

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Brand closed his eyes. He kept his thoughts to himself but, in his brain, I had no doubt he was filing the swear jar like it was a slot machine. ― K.D. Edwards, The Hourglass Throne This is the second book in The Tarot Sequence trilogy, and it picks up a couple of months after the end of the first book. There is a novella, “The Sunken Mall,” which takes place between books one and two. However, since I did not learn about it until […]



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