Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Sparse yet dreamy atmosphere

The Wolf and his king by Finn Longman

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Bingo Square: You (one of the novel’s POVs is 2nd person) I quite enjoyed this novel. It has a kind of dreamy quality to the writing; it’s a queer retelling of a 12th century French werewolf story, and it has a bit of barebones feel to the storytelling that makes it feel like a fairy tale and transports the reader back to an older time. The chapters alternate between “Him” (Bisclavret), “You” (the king), and “Other” (the wolf). Bisclavret has lived with his curse his […]

The Enemy of My Enemy is… Weirdly Hot?

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers

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CBR18 Bingo: Bird – Sir Cameron gets turned into a vulture by the evil sorcerer Merulo, in which form he enjoys eating various rodents and pooping on Merulo’s castle walls. When Sir Cameron narrowly escapes death from the hands of his friends in an effort to fulfill a prophecy to defeat a mad sorcerer, he flees for help to the only other person who is now invested in keeping him alive – the sorcerer Merulo himself. This is a light-hearted and charming adventure with some […]

OutFoxing the Paranormal

The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk

Rattling Bone by Jordan L. Hawk

Into the Dark by Jordan L. Hawk

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I’ve been a fan of Jordan L. Hawk since I was introduced to his Whyborne & Griffin series in 2018, and his stories have only improved in that time. OutFoxing the Paranormal is one of his few contemporary series, and it follows a group of ghost hunters who have a YouTube series and a professor at Duke’s Institute of Parapsychology who uses their adventures as part of his studies for papers. It is one of my favorite JLH series, and I cannot wait to see what Oscar, […]

These (Slow) Burning Stars

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

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These Burning Stars, by Bethany Jacobs, is a revenge-driven, bloody, action-heavy space opera. It’s full of political intrigue, social commentary, and gun fights. And I thought it was excellent. It was, however, slow to start for me. In fact, I originally started it several months ago and got a little stuck in the first chapter due to all the unfamiliar terminology. The author doesn’t include a glossary, so it was a bit hard for me to keep track at first. That feeling went away after […]

After an empire fails

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

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In an effort to meet people after moving to a new town, I have joined an abundance of book clubs. This novel was for the second one that I’m doing through the local independent bookstore, the Queer Lit book club. We met last week and it was such a fun time; I even ended up staying an hour past the meeting talking to some other participants about books and video games (the games was more of a “listening” section for me), especially Dragon Age, since […]

Somewhat Lovable Schlub Breaks the Universe

Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World by Mark Waddell

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I was really committed to embracing Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World. I generally like dark slapstick and horror comedy; I enjoyed Someone You Can Build a Nest In (from the POV of a sentient ooze that eats most of its in-laws) and Dreadful (from the POV of an evil warlock who wakes up one day with amnesia and a conscience). So, when I found this queer romance centering a guy who raises an Abomination to eat the world in exchange for a promotion […]



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