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.)

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“What did that make me? The one without any visibly useful skills. The Bard, obviously.”

Questland by Carrie Vaughn

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What if the world you play in at your DnD table could be made real, and you could go on vacation and hang out there? Shut up and take my money, eccentric billionaire! Plot: Harris Lang, eccentric billionaire, has a problem. He has invested untold sums in a Jurassic Park-esque private island that would allow visitors to live out their fantasies riding unicorns and fighting dragons. Which makes sense, because who WOULDN’T pay to go there? Only problem is that the employees on site have […]

“There was an existing meddling infrastructure just waiting to be activated.”

Sandcastle Beach by Jenny Holiday

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Accidentally picked up the second in a series before reading the first, but it works fine as a standalone too. Plot: Maya loves her small town so much that when she finished her theatre degree, rather than stay in Toronto and access the biggest opportunities as an actor in Canada, she went home, bought a broken down theatre, and worked her ass off to try and enrich the town’s culture. Only the theatre is even more broken down than she realized, and making massive repairs […]

“She wasn’t the first person to hurl gravy at him.”

Better at Weddings Than You by Mina V Esguerra

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My first book by Esguerra and now I have a new backlist to enjoy! Plot: Daphne is THE wedding planner for the rich and famous. She’s also closer to 40 than 30 and has come to accept that while she is killing it professionally, she needed to give up on the dream of finding a good partner because *gestures at men*. Enter Aaron, who just kind of fell into wedding planning last year after quitting his office job and is already killing it without even […]

“Humans can’t smell.”

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

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Our lady and saviour T. Kingfisher is back with another novel, and so very close to the publication of the last one in the series. Someone’s productivity spiked during covid! Plot: Archenhold has it’s first gnole constable. A gnole joined the force to protect other gnoles, but unfortunately things did not quite go the way he expected. When he finds bodies washing up in the city’s river, no one listens and then he’s fired for investigating anyway because racism. But Constable Gnole wants to stop […]

“Clam jamming me won’t get you in these granny panties any faster, old man.”

Boss Witch by Ann Aguirre

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A grumpy heroine getting a happy ending. Plot: Picking up midway through the previous book, this time from Clem’s perspective, a witch hunter has arrived, quite dramatically, in the small town of St. Claire. Much like just about everything else, Clem has decided to take on the job of getting the witch hunter out of town, and without help. This is par for the course, as Clem has been the problem solver for the whole family her entire life, but she is also drowning in […]

A person pretending to be an AI and an AI pretending to be a person.

The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

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Alyssa Cole dipping her toe into science fiction should be plenty to entice most readers. It’s also a short read, which if you read science fiction, you know is as rare as a diamond not mined by children and used to fund war crimes. Plot: Trinity used to work for the Hive, a fairly blatant near future proxy for google, but after an accident left her badly injured, she’s mostly just kind of there. She works from home pretending to be the AI of a […]



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