Cannonball Read 18

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Kink, Love, and Understanding

Mastery: Sex Wizards Book 2 by Alethea Faust

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This book has no right to be as good as it is. If Sex Wizards: Initiation introduced all of the rules of magic and forced Dominai to accept his power, Mastery shows his progression as he decides to improve his skills and learn how to slow down and let things come on their own. At the end of book 1, Olbric, Dominai’s closest friend and lover, was captured and tortured by two rogue wizards. Olbric and the other members of the crux were rescued, but […]

more historical fiction to round out the day

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

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A recommendation from Vidhya, from her book club! First off, I definitely thought this was a book that was going to hop between 1789 and 1989 or something like that, so kept waiting for the flash forward? It does not, in case you also have this mistaken allusion. This is however a great work of inspired historical fiction based off the life of a truly astounding midwife in the 1700s who delivered over 1,000 babies and never lost a mother. Possibly because she is forever […]

It all changed with a Facebook friend request 

Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass by Cara Gormally

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Even after sitting on it, I am still not sure how I feel about Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass by Cara Gormally. I started and stopped when trying to write the review multiple times. I even started before I officially finished the book so I could try and think out what a piece of the writing evoked in me.  In the end, I am going to say that Everything is Fine is a personal read. You take from […]

Not all men, but certainly a lot of them. Especially rich, white ones.

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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4.5 stars Buzzwords Cover Challenge 25: Pattern CBR17 Bingo: Red (A book with a red cover) Official plot summary: In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment… After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long […]

The title tells it all: Trigger

Trigger by C.G. Moore,

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The title Trigger tells you all you need to know about this book. Well, the important things, anyway. I would assume that the author, C.G. Moore, took some of their own experiences and gave them to their main characters. The feelings of loss, guilt, shame, wonder and the lack of memory.  There are triggers of all types are in this book: First for the reader (such as, but not limited to: a rape, toxic relationships) and second for the character (they are trying to trigger […]

“I realized I didn’t want to carry them around for the rest of my life.”

Nude Model and Other Stories by Tsubasa Yamaguchi

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This is a very interesting and striking manga collection of three pretty dark short stories. I haven’t read the author’s other work, Blue Period, which is about a teenager discovering art in high school, but I had looked at it before and liked the art style, which convinced me to pick this up. Since it’s a standalone consisting of three short stories, I figured it would be a good insight into her style and I liked the striking cover a lot. I liked all three […]



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