Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Tl:dr – Cannabis turns anxious, uptight ER doc into anxious hoochie daddy who listens to his patients.

Pot Shot by Laura Piper Lee

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For a book I ended up loving, I struggled at a couple of points early in the book. First of all, there is a medical emergency in the first chapter that brings Nomi and Julian back together. That had me putting the book down for a week. The other challenge I had was Julian for the first quarter or so of the book. He is an anxious, uptight, know-it-all and he stressed me out so much I put the book down and almost didn’t pick […]

“She could not be tamed. It would be a crime to even try.”

Queen Charlotte: Inspired by the Original Series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story Created by Shondland for Netflix by Julia Quinn & Shonda Rhimes

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I absolutely loved the Queen Charlotte on Netflix; in fact, it was probably my favorite “season” of Bridgerton. So when I found out there was a novel of it, I knew I had to snatch it up. And that’s exactly what this is: a novelization of the show. Which isn’t exactly a bad thing, but if you’re looking for something different, this isn’t it. In fact, I spent the time reading it seeing scenes from the show playing out in my head. Well, it is […]

I agree; The Tempest is a horrible play to perform on an ocean voyage.

A Sea Change: A Shadowhunters Novella by Cassandra Clare

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Most people on their travels are looking for something; either to run towards, or as an option to go run from their troubles to. But not Shadowhunter (bisexual, recovering alcoholic, and general mess) Matthew Fairchild and his loyal (and here mostly when the plot requires him) golden retriever, Oscar Wilde. No. Matthew is searching for himself aboard the Majestic, a grand 19th century ocean liner sailing from Greece to Constantinople, where he’s meeting his parabatai James Herondale, and James’s wife Cordelia.  (Luckily it’s the Black […]

“Except, in this fairy tale, the maiden has blood on her hands.”

One Dark Window: Book One of the Shepherd King by Rachel Gillig

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“There once was a girl clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a king – a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same…The girl, the King…and the monster they became.” Elspeth Spindle, a young, fiery-tempered, average height for a Romantasy heroine, striking beauty with a complicated familial history, lives in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunders (no, I don’t understand […]

A prime example of how a poor narrator can almost ruin a book

Phantasma (Wicked Games #1) by Kaylie Smith

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As you can probably tell from the title of my review, I listened to this as an audiobook. I didn’t fully dislike the book, but the narrator’s portrayal of the main character had me annoyed. Ophelia is a budding necromancer, and she’s reeling from the sudden death of her mother. She has to basically take over the family business of bringing back people’s loved ones for closure before she’s fully trained or ready. There’s a whole game aspect (some might call it the plot) with […]

Super cute if you don’t mind imposter syndrome meeting magic dick

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

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Scarlett looks like she has it all: she goes to Stanford as a top collegiate diver and is applying to med school. But underneath it all … She’s a massive ball of anxiety and insecurity She’s off her diving game for reasons that will become clear Family sadness, although her stepmother and dog sound very cool Isolated She hasn’t connected with anyone since her one and only previous boyfriend, who wasn’t into the domination she craves German is dragging down her grade point average She’s […]



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