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:

“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”

The Fourth Wing Part 1 by Rebecca Yarros

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I do not enjoy young adult novels. This is very much a young adult novel. It claims to be general content, but it is a beat by beat young adult Hunger Games type novel, with maybe a bit more gore. Plot: There’s a ruthless society and they send everyone to a school where people get placed in different colleges. This time, it’s classic high school rules – the jocks go to fight, the nerds go to the library, and we don’t really care about anyone […]

“To casual misogyny, may it kindly fuck off forever.”

Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Plot: Ari has always been obsessed with weather. Now a grown meteorologist, she has a chance to work for her hero, who is unfortunately too busy fighting with her ex-husband and producer at the station, right in front of the entire office. After a particularly bad fight, Ari gets drunk with colleague from the sports section – Russell, and they hatch a plan to hook then up again, if only to get some peace at work. And if they make a friend in the process, […]

“It was such a perfect thing to say that he decided to believe it.”

The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long

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It’s done – the final book in the Pennyroyal Green series. The epic of Olivia Eversea and Lyon Redmond, and the love that will mend a rift between families that is nearly a thousand years old. Plot: Lyon was suffocating under his father’s expectations, but because those expectations have been part of his life since birth, he thought first about what he was supposed to do and only second of himself. In other words, he didn’t really examine what he wanted out of life, what he valued […]

“you’ve left no room in the budget for weevils”

It Started With a Scandal by Julie Anne Long

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Long takes on Beauty and the Beast with mixed results. Plot: Lord Lavay is a prince from the House of Bourbon, which means very little after the French Revolution, and boy is he grumpy about it. Fortunately, being a romance hero, he has already successfully recovered at least some of his wealth by becoming an operative for the British Crown? Doing some kind of mysterious… Investigation/violence? Something very alpha and impressive, surely. Until one day, he’s set upon by six men and is badly injured. He […]

“half sob, half scream, born of the frustration she felt and the certainty that nothing would change unless she herself was the one to change it.”

Once Upon a Desire by Various

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A perfect book for people in a reading slump looking to discover a new author or folks new to paranormal / romantasy looking to dip their toe into a few approaches to the genre at once, through fairytale retellings that will give you a sense of of each author’s style through a relatively familiar story. That said, these are necessarily diminished stories. Epics and fantasy stories are typically not only long, but much longer than your average book. This is because they require a lot […]

Victorian steampunk romance with ghosts!

Gaslight Hades by Grace Draven

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You can always count on Draven for some creative world building that doesn’t feel like LOTR fan fiction. Plot: Nathaniel was a rich, happy dude with a penchant for steampunk type engineering, not least because Lenore, the daughter of the inventor he worked with most was brilliant and beautiful and super into him. But he had a passion for exploring, so he got himself drafted to work on a transport ship that travels deep into space, and then promptly got himself killed by unutterable horrors […]



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