Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

As if going home isn’t bad enough, now you’re also a werewolf

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

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One thing that I really appreciated about this novel and was rather refreshing is that after the narrator, Rory, gets bit by a werewolf, she doesn’t spend weeks denying the idea of the supernatural. From the beginning, she acknowledges that she was bitten by a monster, even if she tells everyone it was a bear because she doesn’t want people to think she is crazy. Based on her new cravings and other changes, she quickly puts it together with werewolf. She still doesn’t totally believe […]

So much parental drama to resolve

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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I quite liked A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches but I also struggled with most cozy fantasy I read last year, especially if it was an author’s second or third cozy fantasy. I’m happy to report that this novel was just as good as A Very Secret Society. You can read these two in any order – I believe they are set in the same universe but I am not sure if they even share any of the same characters. Sera Swan was once […]

64 months later, a new Dresden Files

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

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I used to really like The Dresden Files but I haven’t been as excited about them in a long time. The two long gaps between releases didn’t help at all, and after discovering Seanan McGuire and Ilona Andrews, some of the bro-iness of The Dresden Files was bit harder to overlook/stood out more in comparison. While Harry matured a lot over the years in that regard, he seemed to be backsliding in the novels released most recently before this one, 2020’s Peace Talks and Battle […]

Space Horror Lite

Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes

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I was going to say this was a first for me in terms of genre: space horror. But now that I think about it, I was introduced to space horror in the 90’s when I went in cold to see Event Horizon and walked out of the theater in horrified silence. THAT shit was space horror. But we’ll take it down a notch and talk about Ghost Station, which is set on an alien planet with a long lost civilization. We follow a team of […]

Marriage in Trouble that Did Not Work for Me

Sunk in Love by Heather McBreen

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I think there must have been people on social media complaining about dual point of view romances, because I’ve read a few recent releases that were single point of view and they suffer as a result. There are probably good single pov marriage in trouble romances, but I can’t think of any at the moment. Sunk in Love really needed Liam’s pov. Without it, I couldn’t invest in their relationship. Things aren’t going well in Roslyn’s life. She and her mother were in a car […]

Not a Christmas romance, despite the excessively wintery cover

I've Got My Duke to Keep Me Warm by Kelly Bowen

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Buzzword Reading Challenge 26: Me/My Buzzword Cover Challenge 26: Wearable accessories (the cape!) Defeating the Goblin TBR: The Dusty Book (has been on my TBR since 2016) Monthly Keyword Challenge: Keep Everyone believes that Giselle Whitby, is dead. Four years ago, she had to fake her death to escape her sadistic, controlling and abusive husband, the Marquess of Valence. To make sure there was no doubt of her demise, Giselle made sure the boat she and her stepdaughter were on exploded, in sight of half […]



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