Cannonball Read 18

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He’s not supposed to still be funny after we’ve broken up.

Still into You by Erin Connor

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I enjoyed Erin Connor’s Still Into You so much, like so, so much. The primary narrator Karissa Vacker, was great. The interstitials were narrated by William DeMerritt, Donald Chang, James Fouhey, Robb Moreira, and Greg Chun voicing each of the members of the band, Final Revelations. Still Into You is a second chance romance between two people who so clearly want to be together. Sloan, is a music journalist given the opportunity to interview a band that famously doesn’t give interviews. She had an intense […]

Ignore This Siren’s Song

The Siren by Katherine St. John

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In “The Siren,” the handsome, famous, wealthy, charismatic, sexy Cole Powers is shooting a film on a small Caribbean island. The writer-director is Cole’s estranged son, Jackson. And the movie also stars Cole’s ex-wife, the actress Stella Rivers. Along for the ride is producer Taylor Wasserman (also estranged from her father), influencer Madison Kasabian, and Stella’s assistant, the very realistically named Felicity Fox. And half of them want to kill one of the others. I chose this book because although I usually prefer sci-fi and […]

A Heist with Heart (and a Few Souls)

The Frame-up by Gwenda Bond

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This chocolate-and-peanut butter book is either a romance with a heist in it, or a heist with a romance wrapped around it. I’m leaning towards the latter, for pedantic reasons, but regardless of your perspective, if you like romance and/or heists, you’ll find this very charming, literally AND figuratively, because this is a magical heist. “Stealing Francesco’s Tears [Gorgeous Clown Take]” by Marc-Anthony Macon is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 . Dani grew up as part of a magical family of thieves, run by her mother, […]

“Even when you have it rough, never forget to be good to others. Because that kindness comes back around again.”

The Love We Share by Hina Ten

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Machi is a young man looking after a sweet two-year-old, Kokoa, by himself. With no job other than survival sex work, he is homeless, couch surfing, and ill when he faints in the street and is helped by Mihiro. Mihiro remembers him from high school and offers to let Machi and Kokoa stay with him until Machi is back on his feet. Machi has had a hard life and is leery of the offer, assuming that Mihiro only wants him to stay so that he […]

“I want to be the most important person to him in this world. And I want him to choose that himself. He’s someone who should be allowed to make that choice.”

No God in Eden (Volume 2) by Yuma Ichinose

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Light spoilers follow! The concept of No God in Eden was interesting enough to me to try to overcome my leeriness about ABO manga (it’s usually not very good, in my opinion — I’ve read too much great ABO fanfic to settle, as someone who was lurking around on Livejournal when it was first invented) and the first volume was solid enough for me to pick up the second one. But I don’t know if I’ll continue with it, because I looked at the summaries for the […]

“For three months, I’d like the three of you to live together. Then Meguru will formally choose her father.”

Dysfunctional Family Theory (Volume 1) by Mayo Tsurukame

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Even though there are many things that this book does that I don’t normally like — miscommunication, cliffhangers, multi volume work where I don’t know the ending so now I’m locked into potentially buying several more volumes, putting a child into emotionally fraught situations I don’t think she  should be in — Tsurukame has done such a good job here and made such an enjoyable group of characters that I was won over despite myself and will pick up the second book whenever it appears. […]



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