Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Run away with me. You like tea. I like books. Care to open a shop and forget the world exists?”

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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Don’t we all want to run away with the person we love to open a bookshop/cafe in a small village somewhere? That’s all Reyna and Kianthe want to do. However, when one’s the guard of a tantrum-prone murderous queen and the other’s the most powerful mage in the land, it’s a bit difficult. After getting kidnapped, Reyna decides that the spoiled little bit of royalty she works for has had enough of her life, and finally takes Kianthe up on her offer to run away […]

More Pirates than Tea or Tomes

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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Teas and Tomes is officially a series. I saw the sequel to Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, A Pirate’s Life for Tea at the airport, and it’s a decent light travel/beach/need a mental break read. There’s two plot threads: first, Reyna and Kianthe have to find the dragon eggs they promised to find in the first book, and second (during that investigation) they get involved in local politics by agreeing to capture a river pirate who has been annoying the local diarn Arlon. Naturally, things […]

It’s a nope from me, dawg.

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1) by Rebecca Thorne

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I’m so sad rn, but this was so dull. Cozy fantasy should still have emotional stakes. I’m actually writing this review straightly upon finishing because I just want to be done with it (barring my May YouTube wrap-up, but talking is easier than writing). Like many, I have been really, really into this cozy fantasy thing since Legends and Lattes first did its thing, and unfortunately, I think this author learned the wrong lessons from that book, which she tells us in the afterword was a huge […]

Tea and Books with some magic and dragons and soldiers

Can't Spell treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea very much matches the label on the front cover “cozy fantasy steeped in love”. It’s not exactly a romance though, since the main couple is already established at the start, and they actually seem to have a healthy communication dynamic (which it feels like most standard romances must avoid). Unless the love is actually the couple everyone knows are into each other but they refuse to admit it themselves, or maybe it’s the young teenage first love thing that gets […]

Yo Ho Ho and a Pot of Tea

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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Reyna and Kianthe are off on their quest to find the missing dragon eggs when they’re roped into helping a local lord deal with a pirate problem with the assistance of a local constable, Bobbie.  When Reyna finds out that Bobbie and Serina, the problem pirate, were childhood best friends, she immediately smells trouble and romance.  And meddling happens to be one of her hobbies.  But the four women will soon find that their issues might be interconnected, and it may take all of them […]

Forget Swords and Sorcery. Give Me Tea and Books Instead.

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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One’s the most powerful mage in the world.  The other is personal bodyguard to the queen.  And really all the two of them want to is run off and open a store that sells books and serves tea.  That’s easier said than done though. The characters are fantastic, all of them.  Reyna and Kianthe the main leads were a fantastic pair, and the supporting cast is just as good.  There are a lot of found family vibes that I really enjoy, and the way that […]



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