Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Privateers and puppies

Scandal of the Summer by Alexandra Vasti

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Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. This book is on sale now. Lady Ruby Ballimore has tried her very best to be the perfect debutante, but no matter how hard she tries, she can’t be quiet and biddable and seemingly empty-headed. After yet another disastrous dinner party, which has shown off her unladylike academic prowess to the Ton and enraged her father, she decides that she needs a change of setting. Ruby’s father is the ambassador to a small European […]

Peace-loving, vegetarian vampires are as dull as they sound.

Blood Mercy: A Fantasy Romance (Blood Grace Book 1) by Vela Roth

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Lio had already wasted so much time and effort carefully constructing a plan for eternity, which had all come to naught. It was a fine, rare feeling to want nothing more than the present. ― Vela Roth, Blood Mercy Cassia is the bastard daughter of the king, and the offspring of one of his concubines. His true heir, the princess, died years ago, but was finally replaced by the next heir, a boy child who is now a teenage prince. The king uses Cassia as […]

The Audacity of Princes

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone

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Joanna I, Queen of Naples, is best known today for having stood trial for the murder of her husband during the height of the bubonic plague, but she faced many other challenges during her thirty-year-long reign. The whole time I was listening to this audiobook, I kept marveling at the absolute audacity of the royal men of this era, who over the decades launched a number of invasions and plots in an attempt to claim Naples for themselves. A woman on the throne seemed to […]

“Men will literally go on a quest to find a dragon than talk about their feelings”

Bromantasy by Máire Roche

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Thanks to G.B Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is out on May 26th. Juniper O’Reilly shares a house with his totally platonic best friend, Mo Elthorn, and they run a farm together. Juniper has a tendency to get into bar brawls, while Mo holds him back and takes him home afterwards. One memorable evening, however, Juniper gets into a fight with the wrong guy and incapacitates a henchman enough that he is forced to take said […]

But We Dream Different Dreams

The Last Boleyn by Karen Harper

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Though it is Anne Boleyn who became the second queen of Henry VIII, her sister Mary had her own entanglements with royalty which in many ways paved the way for the rise of the Boleyns. Philippa Gregory retreads this same ground some two decades later, but my understanding is that The Last Boleyn is a more restrained retelling of this already dramatic story. I thought that Harper did an excellent job of fleshing out all the many historical figures which people this book, including members of both […]

My friend wrote a book (two, actually) and you won’t be able to read it if you can’t read Danish

Kraft & Mod (Courage) by Trine J. Cederlof

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4.5 stars Nowhere Book Bingo 26: A Middle Grade Book Defeat the Goblin TBR: The Shiny book (added in December 2024) Disclaimer! The author is a friend of mine, but my opinions are my own, and I bought the book with my own money (because friends make sure friends get royalties). As part of the peace agreement between the Green Shores and the Blue Mountains, Prince Mirounga (called Miro), nephew and heir to the king of the Green Shores, is sent into fosterage to the Blue Mountains. […]



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