Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in, and I don’t want to fit in.

Knot Mine (The Oakley-Verse #1) by Alice La Roux

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CBR18 Book Bingo: Middle – Zale stays in the middle, never causing problems but ignoring what he wants for the sake of popularity and fitting in. Shiloh is whatever the opposite is of “the life of the party.” He snaps at people before they can tear him down. It doesn’t help that his endlessly-lovable twin sister, Milly, is an omega who has the alphas at their small college eating out of her hand while Shiloh is the antisocial beta sibling. Milly’s boyfriend Zale – the […]

My spellcheck changed “orc” to “orca” and now I want to read that book.

A Vow to Heal (Vows of Unity #1) by Lionel Hart

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Korik does not fit in. With the recent alliance between elves and orcs, he is the only healer in his town. Shy and withdrawn, he focuses on doing a good job and helping the town’s residents. He is tall and gangly, and is more fit to work one-on-one as a healer than as a soldier or tradesman. After successfully delivering the elf prince’s child, Korik gains the trust of the local nobility. They ask him to accompany two elves south, captain Varen and his pregnant […]

Drifting in the post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s no man’s land

A Very Phoenix Christmas: A Phoenix Club novella (The Phoenix Club) by CJ Bishop

A Swan for Christmas: A Winter Romance by M.M. Wilde

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*The thumbnail pic is not my cat. Instead, it is a pic of me as a cat in my preferred location and outfit of choice. Time has lost all meaning. I float in a never-ending circuit of sofa, kitchen, laundry closet. Meals are made from remnants of other meals; a bizarre hot and cold buffet of Christmas leftovers and the occasional fruit and veg to ward off scurvy. The candy and chocolate wrappers fill the trash bin. It doesn’t rain but everything outside is cold […]

Did you know you have a cock in your sweater?

Ruffled Feathers: an Omegaverse Romcom by Grace McGinty

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Grace McGinty’s Ruffled Feathers: An Omegaverse Romcom makes for such a delightful palate cleanser after some of the truly dark romance that I’ve been reading lately. Romcom is the perfect descriptor for this luscious bonbon. There are multiple meet cutes since it’s a why choose romance. There are amusing high jinx involving adorable animals. Which is not to say that it’s completely saccharine. There are some mild taboos – the FMC and one of the MMCs are stepsiblings, but their parents didn’t meet and get […]

A few quick reads to take my mind off things

The Holiday Disaster: A Brother's Best Friend Gay Romance (Doves of Destiny Book 1) by Rye Cox

Knot Your Average Christmas: A FFM Holiday Omegaverse story by S.R. Griffith

Affogato (BrewBiz book 1) by E.M. Lindsay

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The Holiday Disaster: A Brother’s Best Friend Gay Romance (Doves of Destiny Book 1) by Rye Cox Two stars Ethan is in his first year of college. He’s doing okay, but he’s terrified of falling behind in his studies. He’s never had a boyfriend or even come out to his family. So, when he runs into his longtime crush, Kingsley, he gets tongue tied and runs away. Kingsley is Ethan’s older brother’s best friend and he’s known him his entire life. He thinks Kingsley dislikes […]

“All I wanted was stability. All I wanted was normalcy. All I wanted was for things to remain the same. But nothing ever stayed the same.”

Knot That Simple by Amy Oliveira

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Emmalita’s review piqued my interest in Knot That Simple so I popped over and picked it up. It’s a very fast read (126 pages, apparently, although on the online Kindle reader it all melds into a pleasant blur). I got through it in short chunks in an afternoon whenever I needed a break from writing a paper. I was on Livejournal when omegaverse was created and I do like it although I only really ever read it in gay fanfiction, so straight omegaverse was out […]



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