Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I don’t wanna ruin my life, but I wanna go home with you.

Counterpoint (Twisted Wishes #2) by Anna Zabo

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An alternative title to this was “Like Hannah Montana, but make it adult, queer, and with a healthy dose of BDSM.” Domino Grinder is a rockstar. With spiked hair, makeup, leather pants, copious tattoos, and a black-lipsticked sneer, he is the guitar god of the rock band Twisted Wishes. As soon as the show is over, Domino removes his makeup, peels off his skintight outfit, and morphs into his true self: nerdy, book-loving, bowtie-and-glasses-wearing twink, Dominic Bradley. Twisted Wishes has gone from radio-favorite-up-and-coming band to […]

Spicy Sweet

Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew #9) by Anna Zabo

Syncopation (Twisted Wishes #1) by Anna Zabo

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Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew #9) It’s just—you speak a bunch of languages. You’re stunningly handsome. You can skate backwards, you cook and bake. And you’re nice. ― Anna Zabo, Cinnamon Roll Maxime Demers knows he should mind his own business, but he can’t resist the urge to help. Tom Cedric is looking for a Dom, a good Dom; specifically, a Dom that is not an asshole like all of the ones he’s experienced to date. After witnessing a Tom endure session after session of Dom […]

Too sweet, too pure… kinda

Cinnamon Roll by Anna Zabo

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While I’ve read a few of the other books in this series, I’m not quite caught up, but I’m skipping ahead to this one because I’ve loved the author’s previous work. And look! There’s hockey, ice skating, lots of good food, and a very sweet cinnamon roll Dom. Tom seems to attract all the wrong guys – Doms who don’t treat him right, who equate submission with humiliation. In frustration, he posts an ad at Bold Brew looking for a new Dom, but even with […]

Much more than super hot, sticky, sweet

Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew Book 9) by Anna Zabo

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So, I read this tweet from our very own Emmalita recommending Cinnamon Roll (Bold Brew Book 9) by Anna Zabo because it is a masterclass in setting up the story. It is that. It is also a fantastic example of BDSM romance that is actually safe, sane and consensual while being SUPER sexy. (And BDSM isn’t even a particular kink of mine, so that says A LOT.) Even more importantly, it is a romance novel where the leads actually communicate with each other. I was […]

I have read this book three times back to back in 4 days

Cinnamon Roll by Anna Zabo

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I am on a streak of extraordinarily good books. Anna Zabo is a phenomenally good writer. I know kinky queer romance isn’t everyone’s bag, but Zabo is such a good writer I want everybody to read them. They write so beautifully I have been unable to review their novella, Weave the Dark, Weave the Light because it is beyond my ability to describe. I can only say the language cuts you like a knife and then you say thank you. Maxime and Tom have circled […]

Non-Binary Stars

Behind the Sun, Above the Moon by Ziggy Schutz, Paige S. Allen, Brooklyn Ray, J.S. Fields, S.R. Jones, Alex Harrow, Emmett Nahil, Sara Codair, Anna Zabo

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I was excited to see Behind the Sun, Above the Moon on NetGalley and delighted to receive it in exchange for an honest review. A Queer anthology inspired by magic and the cosmos, a vast and beautiful place where planets, stars, comets—entire galaxies, even—live without borders, specifications or binaries. Stories span science fiction, science fantasy, contemporary, fabulism and magical realism, and celebrate Non-binary and Transgender characters. I received an arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I requested this because Anna Zabo is […]



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