Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

He constantly reminds me of a dark-haired Steve Rogers, not entirely grasping that Hooters isn’t really just a hot wings place.

My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

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Ahhhhhhh! I loved My Big Fat Fake Marriage! It is so delightfully bonkers, and sweet, and filthy. Charlotte Stein has become an auto-buy author for me. Her books are so joyful while also digging into very relatable anxieties. Connie has a lot of experience with the modern London Nice Guy, and she knows better than to trust a nice guy. Her neighbor, Beck, is just so nice. He says “howdy neighbor” and leaves her pies that he baked himself. Beck is so nice that Connie is […]

“The world is wide and full of grace, I promise you.”

A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander

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TJ Alexander’s A Gentleman’s Gentleman is a passion project done very well. I loved it so much. Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” who has built a quiet life for himself in the country that he loves. Unfortunately, his father’s will requires that he marry before his birthday in order to fully inherit the family estate. This means leaving going to London for the Season and trying to appear acceptable to society. This means he needs a valet, so he asks that […]

“What, other than a person, could you build up merely by caring?”

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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Hey look, I read my very first Brandon Sanderson book! Even better, I really liked it. Very nearly 5-star loved it.   I have been intrigued by the writings of Brandon Sanderson for years, it’s hard to be a Cannonballer and not see many of the people whose opinions you generally agree with, and trust have incredibly complementary things to say about it. But the kind of massive, high fantasy volumes that Sanderson is infamous for have never been my thing. But then I kept […]

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The Golden Raven by Nora Sakavic

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Jean Moreau is shaping up to be one of my favourite YA protagonists of all time. He has managed to sneak his way into first place in my rankings of AFTG characters, beating out my beloved Neil Josten. The Golden Raven – the second book in the still-unnamed sister trilogy to All For The Game – was exactly what I hoped it would be. The story easily follows what was set up in the previous book, and gives us much more of a world to work with. The […]

Lost in the Weeds

Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood

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Victoria has been forced to work as a guide with the Exotic Lands Touring Company since she was six years old, and things are worse than ever now that her ex Dean has been promoted over her. Her last hope is to successfully guide Thorn, a high-profile client, safely to the depths of the jungle – but as she grows closer to him, she begins to wonder if there’s a life out there for in the broader world. I wanted to like this book so […]

Horribly Fun

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky has a knack for making humans supporting actors in his space-faring opera about intelligent animal life. After reading Children of Time, which I enjoyed, I wasn’t sure how he would do a second book about a different species in a fresh way. But this second book is just as good as the first. Told in a similar way to Children of Time, Children of Ruin switches between the past and present. The past being a time when human civilization has basically self-destructed and sent […]



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