Cannonball Read 18

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As if going home isn’t bad enough, now you’re also a werewolf

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

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One thing that I really appreciated about this novel and was rather refreshing is that after the narrator, Rory, gets bit by a werewolf, she doesn’t spend weeks denying the idea of the supernatural. From the beginning, she acknowledges that she was bitten by a monster, even if she tells everyone it was a bear because she doesn’t want people to think she is crazy. Based on her new cravings and other changes, she quickly puts it together with werewolf. She still doesn’t totally believe […]

So you married a werewolf …(or baby now we maybe got bad blood)

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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I will admit when I first heard that this book was a thing, I was a bit of a hater about it.  I went “It’s a vampyre and werewolf romance and the vampyre’s name is Misery … oh here we go.”  Then I heard it had alpha/beta/omega tropes that I was familiar with from fanfiction and I maybe eye-rolled a bit.  Because I was being judgey (to be clear I read fanfic, and I love a lot of fanfic, I just personally tend not to […]

Cute, charming, harmless fun

Cosplay and Confrontation by Sarah Zane

Reindeer Games (Ace's Wild Book 6) by N.R. Walker

A Doctor’s Touch: An Erotic Queer Novella (Ram Skin Book 1) by A.A. Fairview

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Cosplay and Confrontation By Sarah Zane Gwen has screwed up everything. She is supposed to be one of the headliners at the Portland’s biggest LARP/cosplay convention. However, after breaking up with her boyfriend Artie and running away to San Francisco to live with her new “boyfriend,” none of her former friends will even speak to her. She desperately wants to explain what happened, but that would mean admitting the reason why she broke up with Artie. Lanie cannot believe she trusted Gwen. The three of […]

“If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

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Never have truer words been spoken! This collection of short stories crept around my periphery for some time, and I am both overjoyed to have finally given in to it and disappointed in myself for not biting earlier. I came across it originally on a list of fairy-tale retellings on Autostraddle, and when it popped up again in the employee recommendations section of one of my favorite booksellers (Crow Bookshop in Burlington, what’s up!) I knew that it was meant to be. Still, it sat […]

The fluff that almost, almost got interesting

Mooncakes by Wendy Xu, Suzanne Walker

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Mooncakes is a fluffy light read, but it could have been so much more. Like a lot of the graphic novels I tend to pick up, this one features a fairly YA story about 2 queer characters probably in their late teens who have something supernatural about them, and they must face some sort of supernatural problem while dealing with their mutual attraction to each other. Nova is a witch in training, and Tam is her werewolf childhood friend/possibly something more who moved away but […]

Dreadful in name only

Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

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Yay for new kinda favorite series! The thing for me that distinguishes a favorite from something enjoyable is how re-readable a book is. While I was waiting for the second book to get to my mailbox, I reread the first, and it was as much fun as the first time. After reading Dreadful Company (book 2), I started rereading it about a week later. Still fun. Dreadful Company features many of the same characters from the first novel including Dr. Greta Helsing, physician to things […]



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