Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Loves reading books, writing about books and talking about books. On the CBR Board. May send you an email. Thinking about new challenges. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Emmalita's Quick Questions interview.)

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She had to pack an entire life’s worth of living into a month.

Heated Rivals by Katee Robert

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How do you come back from kidnapping and being threatened with rape and murder? Katee Robert’s The O’Malleys series is being repackaged and renamed by Forever (Grand Central Publishing). Katee Robert has also taken the opportunity to change some of the language in the books (as she said in a tiktok, “when you know better you do better”). I haven’t read the series before, so I can’t compare the versions. Heated Rivals was previously published as The Wedding Pact and is the second in the series. […]

You don’t have to be what they want you to be.

Translation State by Ann Leckie

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I always make the same mistake with Ann Leckie. I think it’s going to be serious, intellectual science fiction, and it always ends up being a story I can’t put down. When I get to the review writing part, all I seem to be able to write about are the serious intellectual themes, so let me take this time to say that I had a hard time putting this down to do things like earn money and sleep. Early in the book, Reet Hluid’s mother […]

She’d worked so hard to deserve the goodness of her life now, but accepting it was something else entirely.

Single Dads Club by Therese Beharrie

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Therese Beharrie’s Single Dads Club is a messy (in a good way) slow burn romance with two people trying to build new lives for themselves and be better than their parents, while prioritizing Rowan’s new born son. Delilah and Rowan have each ended up in Sugarbush Bay after significant upheaval in their personal lives. A few years earlier, Delilah’s mother was convicted of bilking her middle class clients out of their life savings. Delilah fled to her older brother in Sugarbush Bay and has been […]

We’re incandescent. I believe you and I will ignite the entire sky between us.”

Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston

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I picked up Forever Your Rogue because @melon_reads loved it. I don’t read much Regency(ish) romance these days, and as much as I enjoyed this one, I also struggled to stay with it. Servants, the legal status of women, and stratification of the classes are some of the reasons I’m less interested in historical romance. I was able to stay with this one partly because I knew that the author was inspired to write by a legal case in which a mother attempted to gain […]

Yell if I can help dig some graves once you’re finished.

The Sorceress Transcendent by Casey Blair

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I love well done enemies to lovers romance. Bonus points if it’s scifi or fantasy. The Sorceress Transcendent is fantasy. It’s a quick read, with a nice blend of action and domestic comfort. Varius and Theira have fought on opposite sides of an ever lasting war for years. Varius was a general and Theira a sorceress, second only in power to the autocratic Sorcerer Ascendant. They have studied each other on the battlefield, almost flirting through tactics. Now, pushed too far by the empire he […]

I love that your first instinct was to Google and try to find books on Amazon.”

The Rachel Experiment by Lisa Lin

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Rachel Bai is very good at her job as a financial analyst. She loves the work, especially when she doesn’t have to interact with other people. Her company offers her an opportunity for advancement which means a cross country move to the San Francisco office (bonus, the move gets her away from her wedding obsessed younger sister), and a six month trial period managing a team of people (major downside, anxiety inducing). Her first weekend in San Francisco, Rachel goes to a bar where she […]



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