Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Murder Triad? Yes, Please

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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I don’t remember how I ended up with a copy of Consort of Fire. I might have received a copy directly from the publisher (Montlake). I might have seen it in a bookstore. I might have bought it on Amazon. I honestly have no idea, because I feel like I’ve had it for a million years. So when my podcast co-host mentioned that we should read a romantasy book for our next When In Romance book club, my eye was immediately drawn to Consort of Fire on my […]

My love/hate relationship with this author continues.

House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3) by Sarah J. Maas

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SJM is just bad at endings, is what I’ve decided. I feel the same way about this as I did about Kingdom of Ash. And even though I think it’s the best of her three endings, I also had similar issues with A Court of Wings and Ruin. It’s a pattern, is what I’m saying. I don’t regret reading this book; the first half in particular was a major improvement over the meandering, uninteresting second book. And then she started wrapping things up. Sigh. I’m finding it […]

Slightly Weaker Than the Others But a Good Ending to a Series

Prince of Agony by Tavia Lark

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Prince Kazia Dire keeps everyone at arm’s length for a reason.  He learned at an early age that mages couldn’t be trusted and would only bring him pain.  But having a captured mage from Silaise at his beck and call is an opportunity that he can’t pass up.  Lucian Vaire has hated house Dire since they cost him everything in the last war.  However, he’ll freely admit that being in Kazia’s company is better than being tortured by King Imrik.  And he can’t help but […]

Miscommunication Done Well

Prince and Betrothed by Tavia Lark

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Sei had been trained to be the perfect grail, a living power source for a mage, almost from birth.  Being betrothed to Prince Marek as part of a treaty is finally his chance to actual do that.  Except the dragonrider prince has absolutely no interested in either Sei or using his power.  Marek wasn’t supposed to be the one getting betrothed.  That was his brother Vana who has disappeared.  He’s terrified of using Sei and burning him out; dragonriders don’t use grails for a reason.  […]

A Strong Start To the Second Arc of the Series

Prince and Bodyguard by Tavia Lark

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A failed rebellion in his home province led Vana Dire to be sent to Draskora to be adopted by the king years ago.  He’s managed to survive the cutthroat royal court by not showing weakness and relying on his magic bound bodyguard, Daromir, who both shares his pain and always knows where Vana is through their bond.  They’ve been together since Vana left Kaiskara, and he’s the one person Vana always knows he can count on.  Which is part of why Vana keeps the fact […]

Magical queer historical romance

Of Socialites and Prizefights by Arden Powell

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Arden Powell has been on my radar for a while and I’ve been collecting their books, but lesbians is what finally broke the seal (I am but a simple lesbian lol) and now I want to dive into the whole Flos Magicae backlist to see all the characters in their own stories. Deepa is a singer at a club and doesn’t believe in love, so when one of her paramours curses her to become a leopard every midnight and tells her the only way to […]



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