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:

“Bravery wasn’t an identity, so much as a choice.”

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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I cannot with this book. I cannot with this author. It’s a problem I’m going to have to work through since any time I get off the wait list for one of her books I basically become a non-entity till I’m done and I regularly have to resist the urge to email Ms. Hibbert to inform her that we are basically soul mates because that seems a little intense coming from a stranger. My preferred review for this book would just be various noises, but […]

“Never, in the long history of humanity, has tyranny not ended in revolt.”

Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet

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Do you like EPIC science fiction about people fighting fascists? Do you like humour? Do you like romance? Then you will love Nightchaser. End of review. No? There’s a minimum word limit? Okay, okay. Nightchaser is the start of a new series for Bouchet. It focuses on Tess Bailey, nee Contessa Novalight, daughter of the Overseer, the oppressive tyrant of literally the entire galaxy. He reminds me a lot of Putin, in that he upholds a culture of drab uniformity, narrative around peace arising directly […]

“Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.”

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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So recently I got on this masochist kick where I find stuff I used to love as a kid and watch it with adult eyes, knowing it will almost certainly ruin it. Essentially, what happened is that a few years ago I did a rewatch of Xena and a rewatch of Pinky and the Brain and both were so much better than I remembered that I decided my entire childhood was worth ruining for a the few pearls of proof that it was possible for […]

A hard book to read but an easy book to love

Prisoner of the Crown by Jeffe Kennedy

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I hated this book and loved it in equal measure, and I hated it for the same reason I loved it. If you’re looking for a book that will make you feel the most perfect, soul burning rage, but in a good way, this might be it. Holy goddamn. Trigger warning for literally every kind of abuse I can think of: emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, suicide ideation, substance abuse, and so so so much of all of it in the worst way. It […]

A warm bath of a book

Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

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This is like a warm bath. Not too hot, not too cold, and entirely unchallenging. It is, what I think we usually look for when we go to movie theatres to watch a rom com, only to remember that a team of (male) writers usually can’t seem to consistently produce a love story like a single woman (with editors, god bless them) can. Julia Quinn is something of a juggernaut in romance, and I’ll be honest, it took me a while to get the appeal. […]

“Life goes on whether we want it to or not. And laughter is a constant.”

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre

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Grimspace is a space opera a la Firefly, Farscape, and Star Wars. So if you like really intense, uneven storytelling that involves STAKES but also YA level angst, you’re going to eat this book up. The story is told by Sirantha Jax, our protagonist. She is a jumper, a rare breed of person with the genetic compatibility to do space jump things. I really appreciate the author’s attempt to create science fiction tech that isn’t just robots and impulse engines and worm holes. Not that […]



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