Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Oh. I Expected To Like This More.

Happy Place by Emily Henry

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I’m still trying to get my sister to read this one, so I can get properly coherent about why I felt so uncomfortable with the ending of this one.  I’m going to spoil it, so I can talk it through with myself. If you haven’t read Happy Place as yet, please stop now. I found this equally captivating and infuriating. Emily Henry knows a good love story.  I was 100% engaged in Harriet and Wynn’s story.  From the setting to the reconciliation, everything about this […]

Stupid, Sexy Fun

Bought & Paid For by Lia Rae

Caught in the Act by Lia Rae

Sought After by Lia Rae

Taught a Lesson by Lia Rae

Four Weddings at Christmas by Lia Rae

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I feel like the title of the 5th book here really gives the game away, in terms of where these books are going. The Nardone Family Saga, this has grandiosely styled itself. Without editing, here are my thumbnail notes from The Book Journal: Well, this was fun.  Stupid fun, but fun. In the first book, which I thought I had read but had not in fact read, we buy a chick at auction to prove ourselves to the Evil Dudes ™ we are trying to […]

The Outcast Series

A Kingdom of Exiles by S.B. Nova

A Kingdom of Nomads by S.B. Nova

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In book one, we meet Serena.  Long & lanky, different from the other girls in the village, Serena is a pretty classic Cinderella, complete with dead dad and wicked stepmother.  Who, when her plan to sell her stepdaughter’s virginity to the local smith’s apprentice falls through, sets her up for a trial as a changeling. As one does, I guess? When found guilty-ish, Serena is set out in a cage overnight in the forest.  The theory is, if she’s a changeling, the fae will come […]

Charming – Another Great Plane Read

Weyward by Emilia Hart

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This was actually recommended by Sarah Addison Allen in a newsletter.  Since I love all of her novels, without exception, I took her recommendations as gospel.  This was another plane read from The Great Hawaii Odyssey of 2023 (it took a long time to get home), and I was charmed by it. Told in three distinct voices from different centuries, Weyward tells the tale of a family of women who are both at one with nature, and a little bit… conventionally unnatural.  The men in […]

A Day At A Time

Smoulder by Laurel K Hamilton

Slay by Laurel K Hamilton

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Normally I would have needed to make these books two individual reviews, but books 29 and 30 cover so little time in the world of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter that a single review will suffice.  If you have not read any of this series, this review is not going to encourage you to start,  or explain the basic premise.  It may convince you to save yourself, though, if you were considering it. Y’all, I think it might be time for me to give these up.  […]

Three Five-Star Reads!

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

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Does anyone else have a really hard time writing reviews of books they absolutely adored? I can rip apart a trashy novel easily, but when it’s something I love, all I can say is “Book Was Good. Me Likey.” I thought if I crammed them into one bigger review it may take some of the pressure off. Anyway, the following books were wonderful, and I definitely likey. Five Stars for all of them. Assistant to The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Evelyn Sage is just […]



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