Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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This book is TOO SHORT, which is probably the best critique a book can get

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

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A recommendation by narfna! Quite short and interesting, especially writing this review after all the multiverse talk that has permeated the pop culture o sphere with the release of Spiderman: No Way Home. In a nutshell, this is a Sleeping Beauty retelling where Zinnia Grey is our Briar Rose. She’s suffering from a genetic disease brought on by an Evil Corporation, but the clock is running out and she’s unlikely to make it to her twenty-first birthday. Zinnia has decided to live life to the […]

Anachronism isn’t always a bad thing

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley

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I think this book is probably the most successful attempt I’ve read (not…that I have read many) at reconciling the dual desires of readers to a) have the lesbians b) wear the corsets. The other paradox that readers want is aristocracy romance + sex, and you usually get there by having the woman not be a full on virginal lady but instead some sort of exception case (like: widowed, openly an escort, lacking a chaperone who would care). So here, the escape valve is a […]

I know it says three stars but I actually did like it!!!

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

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I’m not saying I didn’t like this book–I did, and I already have the next two queued up (only just learnt that there’ll be a fourth! My brother did NOT tell me this, I’m not saying I wouldn’t have started had I known but also would I have started if I’d known? Unclear. But apparently the fourth is coming soon and so I “won’t have long to wait, I don’t understand why you’re being so finicky about this, imagine the rest of us who have […]

another gripe: for an advice columnist, our protagonist is really clueless

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

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Four stars for the themes of biphobia, internalized or not, but knock down to three stars for the over-reliance on trope and the underwhelming exploration of said biphobia themes. The main conceit of this novel is the part that somewhat lost me. There’s a locker in school into which high schoolers drop their romantic issues for Darcy Phillips, 16-going-on-17-year old wunderkid, to reply to. Do not worry though–Darcy is clear to tell us that she’s very rigorous about the whole affair and pulls from psychology […]

we’re probably in MPDG territory but I think it might pass on a technicality

The Single's Table by Sara Desai

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Is Zara a manic pixie dream girl? I feel like maybe she is, which breaks my heart every so slightly because I thought that Desai did a terrific job in writing a madcap type character who isn’t a joke as much as she is jovial and loves jokes. The story here is a pretty straight forward one–Zara is a single lawyer with a string of failed relationships (with a capital F for failed) who has decided to put her energies into matchmaking during the wedding […]

I don’t think I could possibly wait for all of these to be published in print

Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe

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A fair warning: this was lovely, but it is a very expensive way to read these comics–only episodes #1-25 are in this volume, and something like 160 have been published online. I’m happy to support the author! I can’t tell how to do so on the Webtoons website. A fanfic sent me to this series–a pretty explicit one, at that. I don’t think I needed much convincing though. Along with Beauty and the Beast, and Pride and Prejudice, Hades/Persephone is probably one of my favorite […]



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