Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“Let me enjoy my vampire romance nonsense in peace.”

ZomRomCom by Olivia Dade

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“Do you ever read anything serious?” Good grief, Susan. Have you seen the state of the world lately? Let me enjoy my vampire romance nonsense in peace. -Random Facebook meme   The apocalypse is coming! Oh wait, it already happened. A decade ago, Zombies were loosed upon the Earth and they ate a LOT of people. Edie Brandstrup survived, but her parents did not. Now she is a forty-something (yeah!), plus-sized (HELL YEAH!) soap maker, who lives next door to a dude-bro named Chad (Boo!). […]

Better than Mannequin 2: On The Move, but not as good as Kate and Leopold

Her Knight at the Museum by Bryn Donovan

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This is only my second review this year, and it is already November. Depression is a Hell of a hindrance to both reading and writing. I’m bound and determined to get back into the swing of it, though, and sign up for CBR18 next year. Pretty much all I read is romances and true crime, so prepare for an onslaught in those genres. The other week I went to my excellent local library and brought home a stack of rom-coms. This was the first one […]

Death can be totally adorkable, and a little bit smutty

Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks

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Hey, it’s been a loooooooong time since I have written a review. I was in a bad place, mentally. I have had a lot, and I mean A LOT of pet deaths in the past few years, and the first half of this year had a few that were back-to-back. The irony that the book that pulled me out of my slump was a book about a funeral home was not lost on me. Why don’t we have funerals for our pets? It would be […]

Angels and Demons and Shifters, OH MY!

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

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I know it’s cool to hate on Sarah J. Maas books, but I am a huge fan of her work. Are they high literature? No, but A Court of Thorns and Roses got me back into reading after too long of an absence. A Court of Silver Flames helped get me out of bed after 6 pets died in 6 months and I was in a depressive fugue. She does character development like nobody else, and her books are unputdownable. Book 1: House of Earth […]

Is Destiny A Choice?

Red String Theory by Lauren Kung Jessen

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I was given an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Rooney Gao is an artist who feels she has always lived in the shadow of her famous artist mother. Her mother’s breakthrough piece was a live video of the birth of her daughter, Rooney. Rooney feels that because of her notoriety since birth, she has to create under the alias, Red String Girl (RSG). RSG’s creations all use red string to convey messages about destiny and interconnectedness. Rooney believes strongly in […]

January Romance Roundup

Snow Place Like L.A. by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

Mixed Signals by B.K. Borrison

Scarred by Emily McIntyre

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Time for my first Romance Roundup of the year. I read a LOT of romance, and some of them just don’t lend themselves to lengthy enough reviews, so I prefer to condense them into one big review a month. Snow Place Like L.A. by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone (Christmas Notch #1.5) This novella takes place between the first 2 books of the Christmas Notch series. I enjoyed the Hell out of those so the completionist in me had to listen to the audiobook of […]



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