Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Everything is not what it seems

A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight

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Lizzie Kitsakis is working late in her office one night, at the prestigious New York law firm Young & Crane. It’s not the job she pictured for herself, she was perfectly content working as an underpaid federal prosecutor, but her husband’s alcoholism has forced her hand into taking this better paying, yet less rewarding job handling white-collar cases. She’s about to head home when she receives a collect call from Rikers Island. On the line is Zach Grayson, an old friend from college, now millionaire, […]

The Magus

The Magus by John Fowles

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Every once in a while a novel will come out and it will be lauded as the takedown of the a certain kind of man — a literary author, a wayward dude, a divorced dad, the fuck boy. And while sometimes the novels are good, they never quite feel the takedown people want them to be, and as if often the case, they weren’t ever really supposed to be a takedown at all. In fact, I would say of course that literature, as it’s always […]

Can a review be 250 heart emojis, asking for a friend

The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics by Gideon Defoe

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Ah, the dilemma of the book review … when I hate it, I have SO MUCH to say, but when I love it, all I want to do is poke cloves in an orange in the shape of a heart and send it to the author by overnight mail. The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics is the fourth book of a series by Gideon Defoe. I have now read three of the four, and I can’t even contemplate reading the last one (Napoleon, […]

Action adventure in space with queer representation!

The Disasters by M. K. England

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I missed out when The Disasters was the Cannonball Book Club pick but have finally made up for lost time.  This book immediately kick into high gear and doesn’t stop until the conclusion.  Science fiction is a favorite genre of mine and this was so fun, as well as refreshing with the LGBTQ+ representation. All Nax has ever wanted was to be a pilot.  The best way to do so is to become a cadet in the Space Academy and then migrate to the off Earth […]

Murder, Mayhem and Meatballs

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

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On a dark night, three people come together to discover who has been vandalising their store: reluctant but cash-strapped Amy, pleasant but lonely Ruth Anne and manager Basil, whose corporate hard-on is probably the most terrifying thing in this book. The store they work at is Orsk, a wannabe Ikea chain of cheap DIY furniture stores (Ikea is acknowledged as the superior brand here but really, for all intents and purposes, Orsk IS Ikea). It doesn’t take long for things to go awry: a mysterious […]

A wonderful Regency romp where nearly everyone is queer

Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall

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4.5 stars Official book description: Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally. It was always his father’s hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up…romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine’s proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again. Arabella’s twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure “Bonny” Tarleton, has also grown up…romantic. And fully expects Valentine […]



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