Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Man and a Muse

Mother Christmas Volume 1: The Muse by Valya Dudycz Lupescu

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I would have preferred reading the completed story of Mother Christmas Volume 1: The Muse, but this first volume is strong, if not open-ended and left me with a few questions. Valya Dudycz Lupescu had a curious mind as a child and that took them into adulthood where they followed mythology, legends, folk and fairy tales to their “why.” AS St. Nicholas and Santa Claus played a role in their lives (St. Nicholas was from their Ukraine heritage  and Santa from their American side) they […]

Smut I read just because of the title.

Twyla's Teacher Daddy by Honey Meyer

Her Dirty Best Friend by Adele Knight

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Twyla’s Teacher Daddy by Honey Meyer Twyla is a 19-year-old High School student who has failed her Senior Year three times. Gunnar Fox is a teacher at her school. One day after school, he catches several boys sexually and physically assaulting Twylla, so he intervenes and saves her. So he does what any good teacher does and takes her to his own private doctor then takes her home with him……wait….that’s what predators do… Turns out Gunnar is a Daddy, but not in a mildly kinky […]

Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Terry Pratchett?

Mort by Terry Pratchett

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I finally decided to dip my toes in the Discworld series and after looking up some good entry points, I decided to start with the Death subseries. The novel mainly follows the character of Mort, a young man with no apparent career skills, whom Death chooses to be his apprentice. Mort finds it difficult to accept it when certain people are about to die, especially if it seems to be in an unfair way, which leads to a messy situation the first time he is […]

An Inauspicious Start to a Series

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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When Feyre kills a wolf while hunting to keep her family alive, she sets in motion a chain of events that leads to her living amongst the Faerie in order to protect her family.  It doesn’t take long for Feyre to realized that there is something sinister lurking that may be a threat to the Faerie and humans alike, and she might hold the key to save them all from doom. It took me a while to get into the story, in part because I […]

Unprepared Heroine Does the Best She Can

Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith

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Note: The version I have is two books Crown Duel and Court Duel published together with a short story/epilogue.  There will be minor spoilers for Crown Duel because you can’t talk about Court Duel without them. On his deathbed, Meliara’s father tells her and her brother that the time has come to enact their plan to oppose the king whose greed is leading the country to disaster.  However, nothing is as easy as planned, and Meliara quickly finds that her lack of education about anything […]

It’s magic, you know, never believe it’s not so!

Spell Bound by F. T. Lukens

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Spell Bound by F. T. Lukens was recommended to me by a YA librarian friend. ( I read this as a passport book – recommended by a friend.) The story is told in alternating chapters by two magician’s apprentices: Rook and Sun. Rook, who was raised by his magician grandmother, is deemed unmagical. After her death, he is sentenced by the Magical Consortium to move away from his home and live in the city without magic. He is a genius (he keeps telling us that) […]



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