Cannonball Read 18

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A promising debut cozy fantasy romance that didn’t quite fully hit.

Letters from the Last Apothecary by Bita Behzadi

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Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House | Hay House LLC for the Audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This is a promising debut by Bita Behzadi, and I will be reading further books from her, but this one had some issues that mean I can’t give it a full four stars. Mostly, I had a really hard time both getting in to the story, and caring about the characters. It took about 33% for the first, and about 60% for […]

A Great Graphic Novel for Fans of Cozy Fantasy

Forgive-Me-Not by Mari Costa

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Princess Aisling is excited for her eighteenth birthday.  She’s not expecting to be attacked in her own bedroom and kidnapped or to find out that she’s a changling.  Forget-Me-Not, the princess she was switched at birth with, has a plan that she needs Aisling in order to complete.  As the two of them journey together, a friendship and maybe something more begins to develop.  But the real question is, what sort of future exists for either of them and how do you determine who you […]

“We consider it cruel,” Maia said. “And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.”

The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth #1) by Katherine Addison

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It was the first time in his life Maia had been surrounded by people who were like him instead of only snow-white elves with their pale eyes, and he missed several names in the effort not to faint or hyperventilate or burst into tears. ― Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor The memories of a thousand separate cruelties mocked him, but no one save Maia himself had ever counted those as wrongs, and it was unjust to have them declared wrongs now, merely because he could. […]

“The witch looked surprised to see me, her eyes blinking furiously at me through murky waters. I don’t know why she was so astonished. It was my lake she’d been thrown into; she should have expected I’d come and see if there was anyone worth eating.”

Greenteeth by Moly O'Neill

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In the quiet depths of a lake lurks Jenny Greenteeth, a monster with needle sharp teeth, hungry and ready to pounce. In all the years she’s lived there, Jenny has never spoken to a human; but that ends when a witch from the local village is thrown into her lake. I could hear some humans cheering. Or maybe humans laughing, or maybe even screaming. It’s difficult to tell the difference, humans are always making a noise for some reason or another. Not being fond of […]

Come for the cats, stay for … also the cats

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett

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Like many other Cannonballers, I was familiar with Heather Fawcett because of the Emily Wilde novels, so when I saw her next novel was going to involve a magical cat shelter, I was in, even though I hadn’t enjoyed the third Emily Wilde novel as much. Overall, I had a really fun time with this but it really was primarily due to the cats and the cat shelter, and I actually would have enjoyed even more cats, and day to day life at the shelter. […]

Cozy but Underdeveloped

Magic and Mischief at the Wayside Hotel by Elizabeth Everett

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This was a reasonably satisfying cozy fantasy that didn’t quite live up to its promise. Pax is the manager of a traveling sentient hotel that picks up and deposits guests throughout various magical worlds. When the hotel ends up on earth (we’re not told how that happens) and out of fuel, Pax determines that the best way to fix the hotel is to “reboot” it by pretending it’s an apartment and bringing in a tenant. Enter Josie, struggling single mom of the adorable 4-year-old Amos. […]



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