Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm Natalie and 2025 is my second year participating in cannonball read. I love reading, especially fantasy and science fiction books. I live on Vancouver Island, in Canada.

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Mostly-not-funny-but-still-enjoyable Story

Funny Story by Emily Henry

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After decades of only reading romance novels that are also fantasy/sci-fi/historical novels, I think I’m firmly in my contemporary romance era. I like having shorter, easier-to-digest books to read in between the longer fantasy epics that are my favorite (currently working my way through Robin Hobb’s 16-book Realm of the Elderlings series, as well as a re-read of the 15-book Wheel of Time series, so I’m in serious search of things to read in between!). Last month I read most of Ali Hazelwood’s oeuvre and […]

And all the world a savage garden

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

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One of my favourite releases last year was Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the next book in the series. Released last week, A Drop of Corruption continues the story of Ana Dolabra, brilliant-but-eccentric investigator, and Dinios Kol, her bisexual-disaster-with-a-photographic-memory assistant. Picking up about a year after the ending of The Tainted Cup, Ana and Din are called to the edge of the Empire to investigate a murder where the victim seemingly vanished into thin air. Further complicating matters is […]

The Science of Love

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

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When reviewing Ali Hazelwood’s latest novel, Deep End, earlier this month, I expressed an interest in reading some of her other work and got a few recommendations. I’ve since picked up The Love Hypothesis, Love, Theoretically, Not in Love, and Love on the Brain. The Love Hypothesis is about Olive, a biology grad student, and Adam, a professor (but not her professor). Olive briefly dates a boy who she isn’t very interested in (I think his name was Jeremy, but I honestly can’t remember, let’s […]

If you like piña coladas, and pushing guys into trains

Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

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About a week or two ago, I went to the bookstore intending to buy one specific book (in this case, it was Katherine Arden’s The Winter of the Witch, which I have also since completed and is now on my ever-growing list of books to review). As is usually the case for me, and against all my good intentions, I came out carrying a number of books greater than one. One of my unintended purchases was Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes (if that name […]

Closest thing I’ve found to a literal Cannonball Read

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

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I think I’ve mentioned before in some of my reviews that contemporary romance isn’t really a genre I read very much of (although I have read a few in the past couple of years that I’ve really enjoyed). I’ve been wanting to branch out into it more, and I liked Ali Hazelwood’s vampire-werewolf paranormal romance Bride when I read it last year, so I recently picked up her latest release, Deep End. The main character in Deep End is Scarlett Vandermeer (“Vandy” to her friends), […]

A Pirate’s Life for Me

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb

Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb

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So, I’m a little late to the Robin Hobb party. My first experience with her work was when I read the first book and a half of her Soldier Son trilogy, sometime around 2008. I remember thinking the first book was okay, but I bounced pretty hard off of the second, and it left a bad enough taste in my mouth that I didn’t feel any particular need to pick up any of the rest of her works until recently (plus, I now know that […]



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