Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The things people do for their siblings

The Starter Ex by Mia Sosa

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I have tendency to forget character names rather quickly, even if I mostly retain plot. As a result, I kept wondering if this novel was going to be a sequel to When Javi Dumped Mari. After all, the cover art had the same feel and style, and even though The Worst Best Man and The Wedding Crasher are in the same universe, they aren’t listed as a series. Vanessa absolutely could have been one of Mari’s friends whose name I had forgotten. Turns out, unless […]

Lost Children, Almost Forgotten History

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

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I have never read this author before but I was intrigued by the premise when I saw this on a few “Anticipated 2026 Releases” lists. The novel follows three different characters with different starting points, and naturally the stories converge. Ozzie is an African American soldier in Germany in 1948 – right when Truman passes the order to desegregate the military. Ethel Gathers is on an accompanied tour to Germany as her husband’s dependent in 1951. She is one of the few Black officers’ wives […]

We’re up all night to get lucky

Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison

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I read the original novels from The Hollows series (I couldn’t bring myself to read the follow ups since she had written the perfect epilogue and I didn’t want it to no longer count) but haven’t picked anything up from Kim Harrison in a while. The Hollows as a series ended up having such extensive world building as the series progressed that I really appreciated but Rachel Morgan as a character took a while to grow on me (definitely took more books than Kate Daniels […]

A sweet second chance romance in these depressing times

The Love Feud by Janine Amesta

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Disclaimer! This was an ARC from the author. My opinions are my own. Hailey Moreno thought it was quite exciting to be secretly dating the son of her family’s company’s chief rival, but once her father died, and said rival (with the help of his son) tried to offer to buy the Moreno’s air balloon business, she felt deeply betrayed and told Ryland Selene to take a hike. Four years later, she still hasn’t told her mother or any of her sisters that she used […]

Creepy kids! Drug addicts! Murder! Drawing!

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

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  How do you feel about kids who see ghosts? Generally, I don’t love the creepy kid genre, but this book is more of a “haunted kid” vibe. He’s not inherently creepy, but you know he’s been through some things. Our main character is Mallory, who is a recovering drug addict. She’s about a year and a half sober and living in a halfway house / community home / something like that, and trying to get a job to keep her life together. She’s a […]

Back to the orcs, rattkins, and elves!!

Brigands and Breadknives (Legends and Lattes #2) by Travis Baldree

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So this is book two in the Legends and Lattes universe. I read book 1 first (shocker!), and then book 0, and then book 2. This was definitely the correct order! We met Viv and Tandree in the first book, along with the rest of the Legends and Lattes crew. Then we traveled back in time to Viv meeting Fern. In this book, it’s about twenty years after Bookshops and Bonedust (Book 0), and Fern is travelling to Thune to open a bookshop next to […]



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