Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Tries To Leave Your Corpse in a Secret Cave

Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

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It’s fourteen year old Emma’s first summer away from home: she’s off to what is colloquially known as Camp Rich Bitch, a summer camp for the East Coast’s elite. Because Emma, thanks to her negligent parents, arrives late, she ends up sharing her cabin with three other girls, all of whom are several years older. A week after the start of the camp, the girls suddenly vanish. Emma is left behind, confused and hurt. But Emma isn’t entirely truthful.  The camp closes not long after […]

New Sheriff in Town

All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

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Titus Crown is overqualified to be the sheriff of rural Charon County, Va. He went to UVa on a football scholarship, Columbia for grad school, and spent a decade working on domestic terrorism cases with the FBI. But after a raid gone bad at a fundamentalist compound, Titus moved back into his childhood home and ran for sheriff, hoping to clean up a history of racial prejudice and corruption. His first big challenge comes when a troubled young Black man walks into the local high […]

Friends ’til the End

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

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What first drew me to this book was its cool title and the fact there wasn’t a knife on the front cover.  That bothered me. A Lot.  So of course? I had to read this book. Then I read a synopsis of the book and I really had to read it…because it seemed to be right up my alley.  Let me tell you about it and you can decide if it’s also for you! Lots of people attend college reunions for various reasons–to reconnect, to […]

Why have just one epilogue when you can have four sweet, silly, and sexy vignettes instead?

Green but for a Season (Captive Prince Short Stories, #1) by C.S. Pacat

The Summer Palace (Captive Prince Short Stories #2) by C.S. Pacat

The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant (Captive Prince Short Stories, #3) by C.S. Pacat

Pet (Captive Prince Short Stories, #4) by C.S. Pacat

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“Believe you’d make it back to Akielos? Yes. I did. You were a force of nature. It was infuriating to fight you. Frightening to have you on my side.’ ‘Frightening?’ ‘You didn’t know how afraid I was of you?’ ‘Of me? Or of yourself?’ ‘Of what was happening between us.” ― C.S. Pacat, The Summer Palace This is a collection of short stories that took place during and immediately after the conclusion of the Captive Prince trilogy. Green but for a Season (Captive Prince Short […]

BL Manga Review Grab Bag!

A Hero in the Demon's Castle by Inutoki and Syohei

Tsumasaki Ni Kourozu by Aki Aoi

Secret XXX by Meguru Hinohara

The Ruthless Commander and his Reincarnated Warhorse by Nomoto Narita and Sakashima

Send Them a Farewell Gift for the Lost Time by Cocomi

Don't Call Me Dirty by Gorou Kanbe

Don't Call Me Daddy by Gorou Kanbe

The (Pet) Detective Agency by noji

You Are My Happiness by Bukuro Yamada

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I’ve been reading a ton of BL, so here are some pocket reviews because I’m overwhelmed at the thought of writing individual reviews for all of these. I really love this genre and think the work being done in it is very interesting and engaging. I also continue to be glad that the books getting licensed and translated right now have much better art across the board then when I first started reading BL around 2004. A Hero in the Demon’s Castle has a unique […]

“The princess has been thrown into emotional turmoil again.”

We Swore to Meet in the Next Life and That's When Things Got Weird! (Vol. 1-3) by Hato Hachiya

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I got into grad school, hooray! It is such a relief and as a reward I went and bought myself a bunch more manga. I’ve been eyeing this series at the bookstore for a bit so I treated myself even if I think these are overpriced at $13 each for small volumes. We Swore to Meet in the Next Life and That’s When Things Got Weird! is an isekai style reincarnation romance. Princess Yuko and Harold the knight are in love but can’t be together […]



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