Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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lucked into the zeitgeist without realizing it, does that make me extra cool?

Fruit Fly by Josh Silver

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CBR Bingo: Or, for a series of unreliable narrators CW: a LOT of trauma, as you’d expect, including emotional abuse and sexual assault Also my recommendation for the September meeting of IRL Book Group, and quite a vociferous one at that–our Benevolent Dictator (TM) had just suggested Plant Lady when I jumped in with “WHAT ABOUT FRUIT FLY” so I was a bit invested in/worried about it not being good (esp after the Prophet Song) (we don’t talk about Prophet Song) (except to remind ourselves that it could always […]

I liked all the parts of this but mildly disliked how they came together

Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood

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CBR Bingo: Repair, although I’m grumpy that most of it happened off-page Rec by Narfna! Longer review: I have a soft spot for all romance novels that take place in the UK now, especially those that happen in London–like this one does! Our main character lives in Bloomsbury, in a tiny studio (makes sense) that she can barely afford based off of her income writing a series of interconnected romance novels about a fictional Texan town and the adventures of a scrappy city girl who […]

a now very-long review consisting of an original and retrospective take

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Re-read July 2026 CBR Bingo: Clown, because 1) I am missing clown to completely a bingo (also yay! this completes one bingo!) and 2) I do think Clownish describes a lot of Elliot through this book, in a way that probably isn’t fair to him because he really is a misfit, which is also in the category. A very long dated re-read, entirely from the recommendation of my friend. I was idly looking through my friend Lydia’s bookshelf when visiting her this summer and saw […]

lacks the heft needed for the subject matter

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

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CBR Bingo: Craft, because much of this is about the Craft of Acting and how its pursuit irrevocably ties together our main characters. Clearly I am back on the reading train and angling to make up for lost time. I’m not entirely sure where I got this recommendation from–I think it was a Goodreads one–but it’s definitely a certain type of book for a certain type of reader and I don’t think that reader is me. Hence I’m being a bit kinder in the overall […]

Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame: Would have been more fun as a full novel

Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang

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This novella tells the story of how Kunlin Yeva becomes the masked Guildknight of Mithrandon, a dragon slayer of incredible power and great renown, and of her assignment in a kingdom that worships dragons instead of slaying them. As a teenager, Yeva stops a young wyrm from killing her and her sister, and in the process shows that she has a magical predisposition for dragon slaying. Her father sends her to the capital to join the guildknights. She is trained and becomes the most lethal […]

Zomromcom: Zombies and vampires and love, oh my

Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

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Even after the Harlot’s Bay experience, the newest of Olivia Dade’s works sounded interesting. This takes place in a version of our world where creatures from myth and legend have been revealed to be real by the fact that technology is everywhere and they can no longer hide from cameras and videos. Vampires, werewolves, trolls, fae, witches, etc are all real, and have been forced to start integrating into standard human society. As a result, non-powered humans did some dodgy experiments on themselves to try […]



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