Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Some called it arrogance. She called it competence untainted by performative humility.”

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley

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First a warning – this is a two novel story and there is only one out. The second book comes up July 7, 2026. If you are the kind of person who, like me, hates incomplete stories, delay reading this. Second warning – I understand this is a reskinning of a very popular Harry Potter fan fiction, and that readers of said fan fiction have mixed feelings about this book. I am not a Harry Potter fan at all, so I neither read that originating […]

reworked fanfiction strikes again, with middling results

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley

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BINGO: the letter “I”! hot take if your book needs a glossary at the front and a pronunciation guide in the back you’re doing world building wrong–it’s not a slow build, it’s a slog. That does feel a bit mean to say, but honestly it feels like Knightley had a certain view (or, a certain work) that was going to be fit into the confines of new IP. But that means we’ve got a lot of wood to chop to learn about seith, the order […]

she’s got bollocks the size of blimps

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1) by Brigitte Knightley

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Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group | Ace for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This book should not have worked! But, it really did. At least for me. This is an enemies to lovers slow burn romance set in an alternate Earth where magic is real. (Actual, real enemies, mind you, not just rivals or people who are annoyed at each other.) Aurienne is a gifted healer in an order of healers who is contacted by Osric, an eeeevil […]



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