Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I always feel so bad not liking these more!

All the Feels by Olivia Dade

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I feel like maybe Dade is not quite the author for me, but she does such a lovely job of skewering Game of Thrones and name checking fanfic that I can’t help but read her work. While in Spoiler Alert I felt like April was a really vivid character with flaws and strengths that made sense to me, I felt like here I understood and enjoyed Alex but found Lauren a bit hard to get into. It’s not to say that I didn’t empathize greatly with her […]

finally felt like getting back into some fanfic!

A path to broken stars by stellardarlings

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Hmm I didn’t even realize it until I started writing reviews but this is, actually, the third Beauty and the Beast retelling I read in a row. What can I say? It is clearly my favorite type of fairy tale, imprinted upon me due to my youthful love of the Disney classic. When your other choices are “sleeps for the best parts (x2),” “wears a shoe,” “gives up her entire world for the dude,” it’s not surprising that Belle “I read and yell back and […]

Two back to back Beauty and the Beast-esque historical romances

The Duke and the Lady in Red by Lorraine Heath

Ravished by Amanda Quick

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The Duke and the Lady in Red o I think this is another in a series of “Beauty and the Beast retelling” esque historical romances that I picked up on a whim, and it is…of moderate success. The book vacillates wildly between wanting to be the debauched tale of a a scandalous, disreputable Duke waiting for redemption and a very 90s-era Special Episode of historical romances. To give away the secret, of course our peerless (HA what a pun) Rosalind is secretly hiding a heart […]

Lady Charlotte Holmes continues to be delightful

Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas

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Sherlock Holmes, as conceived by Arthur Conan Doyle, lasted forever and ever through both short stories and novels, and even one death. It’s definitely a fervent wish of mine that this series does something similar, although (like Doyle) I imagine Thomas will at some point get frustrated with the series… Our formidable Charlotte is at it again, but this time up against an enemy too deadly to underestimate. Moriarty himself has come to visit, with a seemingly thoughtful, heart wrenching request–his only daughter has sequestered […]

Wow am I glad I picked this up again after abandoning it!

This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone

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I couldn’t get through this book the first time through, and abandoned it. This time it seemed so easy to get through–not sure what happened. More patience? I’ve read a lot more since then, and so find confusing plot threads easier to stick with (helllo Gideon the Ninth and then “hold my coffee” Harrow the Ninth). I also think the whole conceit of “leaving messages for one another” is cute and all, but once we move past (?) (ha) that to the more plot-y parts of the book […]

Such a forgettable book unfortunately–for once, didn’t care about the romance in a romance novel!

Bombshell by Sarah MacLean

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Hmm it was very okay, I think, but perhaps not one that I’d recommend. It’s almost a month later and I can’t really remember the book, which is probably a sign that I didn’t like it all that much–otherwise I would have talked about it with a friend. There’s a much more interesting story about the Hell’s Belles smothered by a romance with a guy who has such an OBVIOUS issue (he’s not actually an evil murderer, these romantic heros never are!) and is clearly […]



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