Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The House Witch 3- a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy

The House Witch 3 by Delemhach

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House witch Finlay Ashowan is pulled out of the kitchen—and into the fire—as war, family, and love collide in the third book of this fantasy romance series. Having somehow convinced Lady Annika Jenoure to marry him, all Finlay Ashowan wants to do is settle down, cook some good meals, and enjoy a quiet life in Daxaria. But fate has different plans. Fin’s father, Aidan Helmer, fire witch and servant of King Matthias of Troivack, has arrived in the kingdom with devastating news: Annika’s brother Charles […]

The House Witch 2- the hug continues, with a touch of pathos

The House Witch 2 by Delemhach

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As a wielder of domestic magic, Finlay Ashowan likes to keep his affairs as neat and orderly as his kitchen. But between his work for the King and Queen of Daxaria and a new (secret) relationship with Lady Annika Jenoure, his life is anything but tidy. For one thing, if Annika and Fin are to continue their romance, they’ll need to sort out the pesky issue of Fin’s being a commoner—before Annika is forced into a political marriage that interferes with her own carefully laid […]

A Resistance of Witches- WWII British Spy Witch Covens? Hell yes.

A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan

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Stubborn, plainspoken, and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key to the cause: she must use her magic to track down magical relics before Hitler and his sycophants can. Then a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with heart-breaking consequences, leaving the coven shaken, exposed, and divided. The elder British witches have no interest in further […]

Dense But Worth the Read

Thousand Autumns Volume One by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Two by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Three by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Four by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Five by Meng Xi Shi

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Yan Wushi is a cynic as well as a master cultivator and leader of a demonic sect.  When the head of a Daoist sect, Shen Qiao, loses a duel and is badly injured, Yan Wushi decides to take the injured man in and see if he can corrupt him.  Their clashing philosophies towards the world put them on separate paths, but while each sees the world in different ways, they do live in the same world.  As their paths continue to meet and separate over […]

The Society of Unknowable Objects- whoops read this out of order

The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown

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The world of unknowable objects – magical items that most people have no idea possess powers – has been quiet for decades . . . But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in London. They are pledged to protect their archive of magical items hidden away, safe from the outside world – and keep the world safe from them. But when Frank Simpson, the longest-standing member of the Society of Unknowable […]

“On this island where gemstones bloom like flowers…there lived a powerful demon king.”

Dear Demon King by Emu Soutome

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There’s so much here that I like and it just didn’t click for me as a whole — magic, BL, interesting world building, solid art — none of it enough to make this something I really enjoyed. Dear Demon King has a complicated setup about a world where the demon king Kougyoku rules over a floating island full of magical beasts, and also the island has all of these gemstones full of magical power on them that humans want, and fifty years ago the humans attacked […]



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