Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Loved the heroine, the hero was a bit inconsistently written

Pride Comes Before a Fall by Virginia Heath

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3.5 stars Thank you to NetGalley and St.Martin’s Press for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Leopold “Leo” Sloane, the Duke of Debden, has dragged his two younger sisters to Bath in an attempt to keep them out of trouble. The youngest is crazy for any man in uniform, and the eldest snuck out of the house and got injured during a protest march. After saying some less-than-complimentary things to his mother about her ability to keep them […]

It’s not a crime to feel joy, even when things seem hopeless.

Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross

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CBR18 Bingo: Refuge – Iris and Roman find refuge in their correspondence. The days to come will only grow darker. And when you find something good? You hold on to it. You don’t waste time worrying about things that won’t even matter in the end. Rather, you take a risk for that light. ― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be. ― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals Iris Winnow and Roman Kitt are the same age and […]

trying to femme-queer up my romcoms

Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun

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CBR Bingo: Map, because this entire book is frameworked by the map journey that Sadie takes along the Camino de Santiago. hot take: I like the concept (although I did like The Pairing better in the questioning queers questing genre) but found myself annoyed with the extreme insistence that there’s some mandatory experiences needed to be queer. Because even if Mal constantly emphasizes that they’re not necessary, it still implies that without some combination of alt hair/tattoo/Birkenstocks/grunge hair you’re doing it wrong…and a book meant […]

a downgrade after some reflection for BAD MMC BEHAVIOR

Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

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CBR Bingo: Right (for right pairing, wrong time) hot take: I’m really torn on this one — at one point I was fuming and ready to give this a two, two but after finishing I appreciate what Jimenez was doing even if I thought it was more harmful than HEA (for the avoidance of doubt there is a HEA) I’m back, and on further (angry) reflection I’m going to lower my rating for this book because the positives don’t really outweigh the negatives, and I’m […]

“In the daylight, his hair was a riot: a true, bright copper. It looked as though he’d sat in front of a mirror with a curling iron and painstakingly coaxed small pieces of it to curl in different directions. Or else he’d crawled out from a pile of pillows and not bothered to run a comb through it, and gravity had been so amused at the sight that it hadn’t interfered.”

Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

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Mattinesh Jay (Matti to almost everyone), dutiful heir to his family’s struggling wool business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. His fiance Sofia Cooper, heir to a thriving wine business, is the object of obsession love for one Adrean Vane.  (Who also happens to be, awkwardly, the son of the Jay family business’s senior agent.) A successful Sword-challenge at the ceremony would destroy any hope of restoring his family’s wealth (and keeping their reputation), something that […]

You know that boyfriend of mine….?

My Giant Nerd Boyfriend: Volume 1 by Yen Ee

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My Giant Nerd Boyfriend: Volume 1 by Yen Ee is a sweet, fun, and reflective set of comics about how Ee makes the everyday more fantastic. Mentions of illness and death are handled mildly but they are just part of life, so it is cleverly intertwined and makes it sensitive to all types of personalities that are reading.. I read it via online reader and it is due mid Aug 2026, and though it is set during a year or two of Covid, it is […]



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