Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Gods and Monsters

Queen of Dreams by Kit Rocha

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Queen of Dreams is so fun. It opens with Ash, Zanya, and other members of the High Court preventing soldiers from burning an old woman as a witch. Rot in The Sheltered Lands is being spread by the regents who took control after Zanya murdered the evil king. There are intrigues, preparations for war, gods fighting gods, lovers sparring using their full abilities, lovers loving to their full abilities, and endless buckets of hope. The world building in this series is amazing and I am so […]

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 […]

I Too Have Succumbed to the Horny Dragon Book

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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Every one hundred years, the royal family of the Sheltered Lands must send one of their bloodline to be the Dragon Lord’s consort.  Sachielle is the latest in a long line.  But she has three secrets: she’s an orphan adopted and trained to seduce the Dragon Lord, her handmaiden and lover, Zanya, is a trained assassin, and finally Sachi is cursed.  Sachi and Zanya have five weeks to kill the Dragon Lord or Sachi will die.  But Ash, the Dragon Lord, is nothing like the […]

Going out with a bang (in more ways than one)

Dance with the Devil by Kit Rocha

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4.5 stars After his father died, Rafael “Rafe” Morales basically sold himself to TechCorps and agreed to become a technologically enhanced supersoldier, so he could make enough money to keep his widowed mother and younger siblings safe. He didn’t really know what signing away his life would entail, and given the choice again, he probably would have chosen differently. He hasn’t been able to see them for years, certainly not since he and his team, the Silver Devils, had to fake their own deaths to […]

A bridging book, but a really good one

The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha

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Maya used to be Marjorie Chevalier, but had to change her identity after she escaped the evil super scientists at TechCorps, where she was trained as a data courier (basically a human hard drive), with her senses specially enhanced to remember flawlessly everything she hears, reads, sees, hears and experiences. She used to work for one of the Vice Presidents of TechCorps who was secretly orchestrating a rebellion, However, her boss (also the only maternal figure Maya ever knew) was caught and executed, and Maya […]

Two very different Dragon books

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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These books both had dragons, and I need to crank out reviews before the deadline, so let’s go! Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros This is the sequel to the incredibly popular Fourth Wing. Fourth Wing was definitely not a perfect book, and I understand a lot of the hate, but I enjoyed the Hell out of it. The sequel picks up immediately after the cliffhanger ending from the first book, and wasn’t it refreshing to only have to wait six months for this? People who […]



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