Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Sea monsters, demons, and fae magic

A Witch With No Name by Kim Harrison

One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire

The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert

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No half-cannonball for me, but I’ve managed to squeeze in reviews for everything I’ve read in 2024. I’ve been savoring The Hollows series by Kim Harrison like a fine wine. I finally finished her OG urban fantasy and paranormal romance with A Witch With No Name. You have to read these in order, but it’s worth it. The close of the series finds Rachel Morgan once again in hot water with the magical beings of the world. A demon witch who shouldn’t exist will have to […]

This is not a victim rushing to meet her savior. This is a queen considering whether to treat with an enemy.

Desperate Measures (Deluxe Edition) by Katee Robert

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One of my favorite things I’ve overheard in a bookstore was one shopper hand selling a Katee Robert book to another shopper by saying, “they are a chaos peddler of joy and smut!” No lies detected. Katee Robert’s books are fun. They are a good time and they don’t make me feel bad about enjoying them because Robert is intentional in their writing. Desperate Measures, the first in Robert’s Wicked Villains series is being rereleased with a change to the main character’s name, lots of […]

Very Tired Pawns

Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert

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CBR 15 Bingo- Getaway: Not that I mind thinking about South America, but I simply don’t have any book coming up that’s related to it, and I want to black out my bingo board! I supposed Katee Robert’s work is pretty escapist too. Eris must wed Theseus, who made his way into the Thirteen through murder, to keep a closer eye on him. To irk him she takes up with his best friend Pandora; to irk her he takes up with her ex-boyfriend Adonis. But […]

Sometimes he felt like he was in a particularly brutal version of Groundhog Day, stuck in a wheel that would never stop spinning.

Twisted Secrets by Katee Robert

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Forever Publishing is rebranding Katee Robert’s The O’Malleys series. The O’Malleys are a Boston mafia family. In addition to new covers and new titles, Robert has reworked some things that she felt didn’t hold up. I always appreciate her, “when you know better, you do better” attitude. I am not sure what has changed in the text, because I hadn’t gotten around to reading the series before now. Twisted Secrets is the third in a six book series. I appreciate it more as a part […]

CBR 15 Bingo – Strange Worlds

The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert

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Yeah, not only am I back on my Monster Smut bullshit, but it’s Katee Robert Monster Smut at that! This is the second book in the A Deal with a Demon series, where human women make a deal with a demon (duh!) to get whatever they want after they serve seven years in the demon realm. In this case, the women are auctioned off to the half-human lords of the different monster realms. They are not allowed to be harmed or coerced into doing anything […]

She had to pack an entire life’s worth of living into a month.

Heated Rivals by Katee Robert

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How do you come back from kidnapping and being threatened with rape and murder? Katee Robert’s The O’Malleys series is being repackaged and renamed by Forever (Grand Central Publishing). Katee Robert has also taken the opportunity to change some of the language in the books (as she said in a tiktok, “when you know better you do better”). I haven’t read the series before, so I can’t compare the versions. Heated Rivals was previously published as The Wedding Pact and is the second in the series. […]



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