Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Pairs well with the US Open happening now

In Your Court: Serve or Receive? by Kit Haley

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CBR18 Bingo: Season – Tennis court seasons (hard court, clay, grass, etc…) Miles Callahan and Matteo Russo are rivals. Miles is ranked number four in the world and is America’s next big tennis hope. Matteo, an Australian former teenage tennis phenom, is unranked and is fighting his way back into professional tennis after taking years off to recover from a devastating accident when he was nineteen. To compete at the professional level, Matteo pays his own way and doesn’t have the sponsorship deals that normally […]

“She’d learned long ago that you couldn’t change the world, or even understand how it worked. All you could do was survive and make sure the people you cared about survived, too.”

Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier Book One) by Hana Lee

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Years ago, the world became a barren wasteland, survivable only in the Kerinas, where people with Talents protect the populace from the fierce storms, as well as take care of almost everything else. The Talentless, whose numbers are growing yearly, are barely tolerated in some Kerinas, while completely banned from others. Jin-Liu in some ways is one of the lucky ones; sure, she has the most dangerous job in the wasteland, but at least it helps her keep her Talentless mother reasonably comfortable. As a […]

CBR BINGO: Summer—“That is not a load-bearing ear!”

Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2) by T. Kingfisher

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Honestly, there is a character in here that I was obsessed with IMMEDIATELY and had they been present throughout the narrative, this was going to get five stars. However, they were not, so I am only giving it 4.5, because I missed them when they were gone. Daggerbound is the sequel to 2020’s Swordheart, which was the first T. Kingfisher book I ever read, and still holds a special […]

“Simon tries to remember where he’s supposed to put his hands, what a normal facial expression feels like, how to cosplay as a functional person.”

Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian

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It has been literal years since I have read a Cat Sebastian romance novel, and that’s a damn shame for me, because I love her writing. I’ve had books of hers out from the library, but the timing just hasn’t been right, I suppose. But her debut into contemporary romance, Star Shipped, (you, like me, will be forgiven if the cover art made you think this was mid 20th century like the Cabots series) was available as an ARC and an Aardvark book and I scooped it up as fast as possible – and then […]

Matti was so likeable. You could cut him in half like fresh bread and he’d be warm all the way through.

Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

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“Matti,” said Luca, breathless, “if there’s a man alive who would not be responding like this, who would not be going insane looking at you, with you doing that, then he’s either tragically committed to women or so lacking in taste that there’s no helping him at all. ― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed Luca balanced the words in his mouth, enjoying the anticipation. He looked Matti in the eye and said, with the pure heat of honesty: “I’m fairly certain I want you to wreck me. […]

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 […]



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