Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Nart is an avid romance reader who dabbles in other stuff when she has the spoons. When she’s not reading she’s a bureaucrat both professionally and as an activist because she’s a masochist. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Nart's Quick Questions interview.)

Nart's Reviews:

“Bridgerton meets Se7en, but make it boring”*

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem by Manda Collins

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A regency romance murder mystery that acknowledges the societal problems of the time and cares about explicit consent. Also banter. Oh, you’re still here? Alright. Plot: Lady Katherine Bascomb is an independently wealthy widow who runs a newspaper. Among her interests is the crime beat, for which she writes regularly. The book starts with her meeting her soulmate, Caroline Hardcastle, a fellow writer. Together, they decide to start a guide to address the intolerable gap in crime reporting that considers the female perspective (with goals […]

“When people are dying of thirst, they’ll drink gasoline, and it’s their right to do that.”

Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman

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This book has a really strong Catch-22 vibe about it which I think should be enough to get most of you away from this review and onto getting your hands on this book. Plot: Patrick is a Serious Writer whose book dealing with the death of his father has been optioned for a movie. Understandably, he is very concerned about them getting it right, so he insists on being there for the filming. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know a hell of a lot about contracts, because […]

“My heart is going to jump out of my chest, and I need my books.”

Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra

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This book broke me (and my reading slump). And then the author’s note broke me again. Plot: Ben is your typical rich cishet white dude from a family so rich they’ve been able to ignore the last century in civil rights advancements. Beatriz is a queer, Latinx woman with zero chill about systemic discrimination and generational wealth in the negatives. His family voted for Orange Hitler, obviously, while his win has paralyzed Beatriz with fear and anger and more fear. They hate each other, but […]

“Florence, stop encouraging the housemaids to unionize.”

The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe

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Shupe is a very, very uneven author for me. I took a gander at my list of her books and it’s about evenly split between “good”, “eh”, and DNFs. This falls into the “I didn’t like it, but I didn’t dislike it enough to DNF it” category. Plot: Florence, sister of Mamie from book 1, is determined to make her own way in the world. That means that rather than marrying well, which isn’t hard when you’re an heiress under 25 who isn’t monstrously hideous, […]

“I am not a person, I am a scarecrow, stuffed full of other people’s yearnings.”

The Demon Prince by Ann Aguirre

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This is book 2 of the Ars Numina series and war is scaling up. Plot: Ash Valley has survived a full on military assault, but with the Pax Protocol in tatters, war with the Golgoth is only beginning. Their best chance at survival? Alastor, a Golgoth prince defeating his much stronger and better provisioned brother in a battle for the crown. It’s a shame he’s on the brink of death. Enter Dr. Sheyla Halek, Ash Valley’s best doctor and a disease nerd tasked with backwards […]

“Okay, nerd. We’ll call this place Not-Hoth then.”

Barbarians of the Ice Planet by Ruby Dixon

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What did I just read and why was it… pretty good? Did you ever wonder what would happen if Star Trek’s Trills were blue, huge, and existed in the (copyright safe) Star Wars universe instead? Well Dixon has a book for you once you’re settled and comfortable in horny jail. Plot: Georgie is one of eleven human women abducted by aliens to, in all likelihood, be sold off as slaves. Fortunately, before this highly unpleasant future can be made reality, the ship experiences massive failure […]



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