Cannonball Read 18

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Come for the tea, stay for the kisses.

The Raven Door by Amy Crook

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Greyson is a student in his final year of university. He’s shy and has a bit of a complex as he has never been in a relationship, and he has never been in love. Before he graduates and goes out into the world, he wants to know what love feels like. He saves up his money for a love potion, hoping that the experiment will grant him the insight he desires. Greyson goes to Aedan, a local Earth witch and a specialist in love spells […]

So much parental drama to resolve

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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I quite liked A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches but I also struggled with most cozy fantasy I read last year, especially if it was an author’s second or third cozy fantasy. I’m happy to report that this novel was just as good as A Very Secret Society. You can read these two in any order – I believe they are set in the same universe but I am not sure if they even share any of the same characters. Sera Swan was once […]

I might have known it’d be fudge

Dorrie and the Wizard’s Spell by Patricia Coombs

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Dorrie, the little witch with her constantly bent hat and her mismatched socks and her cat Gink, lives with her mother Big Witch and Cook in their Victorian house. One day they go to the Bazaar to sell Big Witch’s odds and ends and potions and balms. While there, Big Witch disappears right from under Dorrie’s nose. She’s apparently been turned into a teacup, and unless Dorrie can get Wink the Wizard to reverse it, she’s going to have a teacup for a mother for […]

Be Witched

Cackle by Rachel Harrison

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Been a slow drip of reading to start the month. So slow that I keep forgetting I actually finished this book a week ago and have been putting off this review. I liked it when I finished it and seven days later, I find myself appreciating it even more. I’ve now read through Rachel Harrison’s whole catalog, save her short story collection. Not a big fan of reading short story collections but I may need to get to hers because she’s a fun writer and […]

Beautiful illustrations and engaging start to a magical manga: CBR14 Bingo “Rec’d”

Witch Hat Atelier, volume one by Kamome Shirahama

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CBR14 Bingo: “Rec’d” – This book was recommended by Darcy, one of my favorite booksellers at Mysterious Galaxy bookstore. My favorite independent bookstore is also doing book bingo this summer.  With Witch Hat Atelier I was able to cross off a bingo square about recommendations on both my Cannonball Bingo (Rec’d) and Mysterious Galaxy’s (Staff pick) bingo cards.  Happily that was the last square I needed to complete a Mysterious Galaxy bingo and now I get a 20% discount on a book at the store! […]

Humanizing a Goddess

Circe by Madeline Miller

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I bought Circe last year after it won a few awards. I finally read it because a friend from work read it and recommended it to me. We were both changing jobs so I wanted to read it while we still worked together so that we could discuss it. It was fantastic. It reminded me, thematically, of Grendel by John Gardner in that the premise is the book is the POV from a character that is considered an antagonist in a different, famous story. Like […]



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