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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“Nobody had told them to say the fair was not at home.”

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase

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If you love The Big Grovel, this is your book. Because it is ALL grovel. Spectacular, well done grovel. Loretta Chase is a titan in romance and for good reason. Even in the ’90s, she was writing romance with men that weren’t rapists and women with a personality more complex than “gentle and sweet”. It seems like one of her favourite tropes is the himbo and the sharp tongued, intensely smart woman with zero fucks that the himbo just wants to support while she tears […]

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore

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Just go buy it and read it. Unless you missed the first one. In which case get both. You won’t regret it. Plot: Our heroine is a Difficult Woman (my absolute favourite trope) and a suffragist at a time when most women are property (first of their father’s as children and then of their husbands and good luck to you if you aren’t a man’s property). Understandably, her focus is correcting this heinous injustice and anyone who has a problem with that can go suck […]

The comfort of a familiar story told well

The Lady and the Highway Man by Sarah M Eden

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If you’re in the mood for a very sweet, low angst, feminist historical romance, you can’t really go wrong with this book. Tiny Bookbot reviewed the second in the series a couple weeks ago and it sounded charming enough to try. Chronologically, of course. Plot: Prim headmistress of a school for middle class girls writes penny dreadful novels in secret to help supplement her income and keep her school afloat. A Now Rich But Born In the Slums fellow author of penny dreadfuls uses his […]

“Don’t embarrass yourself in front of the magic sword.”

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

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Imagine if Terry Pratchett’s writing and Douglas Adams’ writing had a baby and you basically have T. Kingfisher’s style mostly understood. I think most of you have already left to go order this book, but I guess I’ll still go through the motions. Plot: A penniless widow has inherited all the money and assets of her late husband’s great-uncle, who she’d been caring for since her husband died. The family naturally descends on her and immediately begins scheming how to get it back. The scheme […]

A Western Telenovela

A Touch of Frost by Jo Goodman

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I don’t know how else to sell this book to you. Its plots straights out of a telenovela, only it’s set on a ranch and has the pacing of a western. It’s also a well paced crime mystery. Plot: a woman who works for the theatre leaves New York for the first time ever to join her sister and her new husband on his cattle ranch in the generic Midwest. Only she gets kidnapped on the way. Then there’s the rescue, the investigation, and also […]

Data analysis beats superpowers!

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

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This book is kind of like if Office Space and Better Off Ted were written into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it is perfection. And from a fellow Canadian! Plot: villains get their staff same as any other major corporation, through temp agencies. Anna is a temp that does data entry work for villains. She doesn’t care about who they are, she just needs to pay rent. That is, until a chance encounter with a hero leaves her very badly injured, and real mad. Stuck […]



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