Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Cute, queer and geeky small town romance

Winning Move by Skye Kilaen

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I gobble up everything by Skye Kilaen, so when I saw she was writing the first book in a multi-author series set in a queer small town? Oh heck yes. And it’s exactly what I wanted – an adorably geeky and queer small town romance. Gina has a comfortable life in Clover Hill. She splits her time between working at the front desks of the vet clinic and her uncle’s garage, she plays board games at the local library, and she visits her Great Aunt […]

Slooooow-burn sapphic romance with a fire starter (pun intended)

Know It in the Dark by Skye Kilaen

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CBR14Bingo – Shadow: A large chunk of the book is the women dealing with the potential threat of a shadowy government agency… plus other things that hide in the shadows *dun dun dun* I loved the first book in this sapphic slow-burn scifi series and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one! This is the second novella in the series and must be read in order, so if you haven’t read If I Were a Weapon yet, get on that! Given that, note […]

“She still didn’t intend to be caged and used.”

If I Were a Weapon by Skye Kilaen

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CBR14 Bingo – Font: because the mix of fonts on the cover is pretty cool (and matches the book well), and one of the MCs does calligraphy I’m the sort of person who thinks the world always needs more sapphic sci-fi, so when I realized the author of Glorious Day was writing a near-future one? Immediate grabby hands. Six months ago, alien ships suddenly appeared all over the world, obliterating whatever used to be there. The aliens died almost immediately but the ships released clouds […]

I am quite sure that I need time with you more than I need star sprinkles.

If You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen

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Skye Kilaen does a fantastic job of gentle hurt-comfort queer stories. One of the things you know you will find in one of her books, is care and respect for its inhabitants. A lot of queer stories are stories of families of choice. In If You Want Me Close, Simon has a very close and queer friendly family of birth. He calls is family of blended Czech and Mexican heritage The Borg, because it assimilates everyone. The exception is his friend Ziah, a gay ex-Mormon […]

“I’d possibly started down the road of caring about him differently. Albeit in a very slow, easily spooked car.”

I You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen

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If it’s a new Skye Kilaen, you know I’m going to read it! While this is set in Austin (and there’s a brief mention of Knockdown), it’s not part of that series. What it is is lovely and emotional friends-to-lovers romance. Look, it says hurt/comfort on the tin and holy crap that’s exactly what you get! Simon’s a larger bisexual guy, pleased to finally be working at a place that doesn’t care about his sexuality. He has two work friends: Mina, who sits in the […]

Adorable, funny polyam road trip romance

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen

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The first book of this author’s I ever picked up was Get it Right, the first in this series, and that prompted me to binge, uh, pretty much everything else by her. So of course I was ridiculously excited for the next book in the series and even more excited when I heard it was a polyam road trip romance! While this is the second in a series, it can easily be read as a standalone. After getting fired from her job, the last thing […]



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