Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Stardust Grail: The real treasure is the friends we made along the way

The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

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CBR Bingo: Friends – The Stardust Grail explores different types of relationships and the nature of what we owe to each other based on those relationships. Auncle and Maya are friends and their friendship has taken them across the universe together, but as they embark on this last adventure they grapple with figuring how whose needs get prioritized – Auncle’s desire to become a parent and ensure that the Frenro can continue existing or Maya and humanity’s ability to stay connected to the rest of […]

Spoiler Alert: No spoilers, that’s just the name of the series

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

All The Feels by Olivia Dade

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

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CBR Bingo: Bird – in All the Feels, Lauren is described as a bird-ish looking woman, and is eventually nicknamed Wren by Alex – which leads to both some miscommunication and hurt feelings and the resolution thereof. Overall, this series is light, fluffy, and mostly falls within the bounds of the suspension of disbelief. Each book follows a different actor (or two actors in the last book) from the fictional Gods of the Gates television series and their romantic interest. Each book takes place nearly […]

The Aftermath of One World War Still Lingers, But the Next Is Coming Right Along

The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear

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cbr18bingo Card – Middle (as per title) Oh, dear, have gotten behind in my reviewing (definitely not in reading) of my pet Maisie Dobbs series. It’s 1932 and Billy, her invaluable assistant, has a wife on fragile ground, and meanwhile, her beloved mentor Dr. Maurice isn’t doing too well either.  In the midst of all this, she gets a new case that she can’t refuse.  A wealthy couple has just come back from France, where the remains of their son have been uncovered on the […]

Review of Deadly Ambition Short Stories

The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty

The Roommate by Andrea Mara

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by A.R. Torre

A Fatal Delivery by Lauren Oliver

The Silent Muse by Lauren Ling Brown

The Line by Tim Weaver

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I really enjoyed this anthology. I thought most of the reads were 5 stars. The last one was not in my opinion, but that’s just because it felt like a really unfinished story to me. And when I got to his afterword and he starts talking about his other works and these characters may show up again, I realized that’s why I got that feeling well reading.   5 stars-I really liked this futuristic look at a woman (Honey Beckett) dealing with the funeral of […]

Destroyed Me

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Rating: 5 Stars SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW – If you don’t want to read on, just know that it’s a really freaking good book. In a nutshell: Joan is an astronaut in the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The book tells the story of hos she becomes an astronaut, what that means for her, and the relationships she builds, set against the backdrop of an emergency on board the space shuttle in late 1984. Best for: Those who enjoy books that feature romance […]

“The past cannot be cured”- Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Shadow of Night: A Novel (Book Two of the ALL SOULS SERIES) by Deborah Harkness

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I read A Discovery of Witches two years ago, and was suitably unimpressed. (Well, not unimpressed, more like I loathed it.) Then last year, for some unknown reason (I blame having bronchitis and being in the mood to mindlessly binge watch), I watched the entire series on Netflix. (I also watched Shadow & Bone, about 11 seasons of Supernatural, and all of Bridgerton that was out at the time; don’t judge me for any of it. I told you, I was delirious with bronchitis.) So […]



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