Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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What if we kissed for funsies?

It Might be Hot: Suntastic Fun Book 1 by Ariella Zoelle

Forever Not Yours: Square Mile Rogues Book 1 by Sophia Soames

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CBR18 Bingo: Joker and Or It Might be Hot by Ariella Zoelle Two stars CBR18 Bingo: Joker – Alessandro is always joking that his best friend Lachlan should sleep with him. It takes several tries before Lachlan believes he is serious. Alessandro has a massive crush on his straight best friend Lachlan. When Lachlan and his latest girlfriend break up, Alessandro offers to sleep with him. As usual, Lachlan brushes him off, assuming Alessandro is joking. Instead of playing it off as a joke, Alessandro […]

I would read a cereal box if it happened to be Kim Secretan’s cereal box

Think of England by K.J. Charles

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I’m aware that this novel is part of its own series of works with interwoven characters, but I’d be lying if I said the point of reading this was anything more than proximity to Will Darling and my favorite ne’er-do-well aristo with red tendencies Kim Secretan 🙂 Throughout the Will Darling series, we hear about and at times run into DS, the mysterious head of the Private Bureau. Less often we run into Curtis, the henchman who’s responsible for being the muscle. Fly with me […]

A Gory Zombie Apocalypse Road Trip Romance

Doomsdate by Laura Piper Lee

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I loved Laura Piper Lee’s Pot Shot. I highly encourage you to read it. It’s still on my list for top five reads of 2026. My feelings about Doomsdate are more mixed, but if you are looking for a good mix of horror and romance, it does what it says on the tin. Maisie was raised isolated by her mother, an end of the world prepper whose schizophrenia caused her to live in extreme paranoia. Maisie has spent many years unlearning the fears her mother […]

This wasn’t for me, but I am curious about the author

Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

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Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo was a slow read for this reader. Also, it was nothing I had not read in other young adult novels, but for the modern reader starting out it is good. The prose poetry element reads as a novel and moves at its familiar novel pacing. I would have liked to have seen more of the narrator’s cultural background, but what is there is decent. You see, Bright Red Fruit is new if you are new to young adult literature, […]

First Book in a New Series

Revenge of the Sunshine by Jackie Lau

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I have read a lot of Jackie Lau novels, and at this point I’ve got a pretty good idea what one of her books is going to contain and if I’m going to enjoy it. It will have emotionally layered backstories for both of its main leads; be set in the larger Toronto environs; food, beverage, bars, and restaurants with delicious descriptions will appear; there will be some quite steamy scenes; mental health representation will appear in no small way; and the value of true […]

not my favorite visit to the world of the white rat, but that’s a bit splitting hairs

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo “left” because the Dervish (Dervish? he sometimes is The Dervish and sometimes just Dervish, it’s hard to tell) has been left behind, without his mercenary party, and will keep being so given the whole immortal being hanging out with human meat Having not re-read Swordheart nor Clocktaur Wars Which is to say, unfortunately this book didn’t quite do it for me, at least not as much as the much-belatedly-read Swordheart did. We meet the second of three (?) enchanted swords in this, the second go-around in […]



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