Cannonball Read 18

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As if going home isn’t bad enough, now you’re also a werewolf

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

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One thing that I really appreciated about this novel and was rather refreshing is that after the narrator, Rory, gets bit by a werewolf, she doesn’t spend weeks denying the idea of the supernatural. From the beginning, she acknowledges that she was bitten by a monster, even if she tells everyone it was a bear because she doesn’t want people to think she is crazy. Based on her new cravings and other changes, she quickly puts it together with werewolf. She still doesn’t totally believe […]

So much parental drama to resolve

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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I quite liked A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches but I also struggled with most cozy fantasy I read last year, especially if it was an author’s second or third cozy fantasy. I’m happy to report that this novel was just as good as A Very Secret Society. You can read these two in any order – I believe they are set in the same universe but I am not sure if they even share any of the same characters. Sera Swan was once […]

Paladin’s Strength: Every tagline I think of is just fraught with spoilers.

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

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I read the second installment of the Saint of Steel series entirely on audiobook. I found listening to this book – in comparison to Paladin’s Grace – to be less grating, but it still suffered from a few of the things that I didn’t love about the first book in the series. There is so much going for this book – the characters are delightful; the inclusion of a big/tall/possibly fat woman as the FMC is amazing; the side characters are a joy; the secondary […]

Marriage in Trouble that Did Not Work for Me

Sunk in Love by Heather McBreen

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I think there must have been people on social media complaining about dual point of view romances, because I’ve read a few recent releases that were single point of view and they suffer as a result. There are probably good single pov marriage in trouble romances, but I can’t think of any at the moment. Sunk in Love really needed Liam’s pov. Without it, I couldn’t invest in their relationship. Things aren’t going well in Roslyn’s life. She and her mother were in a car […]

Not a Christmas romance, despite the excessively wintery cover

I've Got My Duke to Keep Me Warm by Kelly Bowen

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Buzzword Reading Challenge 26: Me/My Buzzword Cover Challenge 26: Wearable accessories (the cape!) Defeating the Goblin TBR: The Dusty Book (has been on my TBR since 2016) Monthly Keyword Challenge: Keep Everyone believes that Giselle Whitby, is dead. Four years ago, she had to fake her death to escape her sadistic, controlling and abusive husband, the Marquess of Valence. To make sure there was no doubt of her demise, Giselle made sure the boat she and her stepdaughter were on exploded, in sight of half […]

A twist on Beauty and the Beast in this start to a romantic fantasy duology (I refuse to accept romantasy as a genre, you can’t make me)

Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik

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Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for this ARC. It has not affected my opinions or my review. About a year ago, the small village where Riela lives alone after the death of her father was threatened by a flood. Riela unlocked magical powers and managed to divert the water and save the village. Now one of the villagers has been savaged by a monster in the woods, and the mostly hostile villagers insist that she go into the forest and dispatch the monster for […]



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