Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Every time you leave someone’s life you risk being the worst thing that’s ever happened to them, or the last thing to ever happen to them.”

Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This had so much promise, and it started off so well for me. I was delighted by the bitchy plant narrator (plus some others) that was obsessed with this woman, Neve, who runs a flower shop in an aging mall that is about to be closed and bulldozed to the ground. Our MC Shell was a good way in to the dynamic between Neve and the plant, whose […]

Sexy contemporary romance

Inevitable Seductions by Christina C. Jones

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Inevitable Seductions fulfills the “favorite” square on CBR17 Bingo. CCJ is one of my favorite authors and this year I’ve given myself the soft goal of reading her entire backlist, which admittedly is a feat when this woman has written nearly 100 books! I’ve mostly been reading via audio, and a good chunk of her catalogue is available via hoopla. Inevitable Seductions is one of her new-to-me books and I’ve made it up to her 2016 releases, and read more than 30 of her books […]

Let’s Not Ship Toxic Men

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

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Heavenly Tyrant, the sequel to Iron Widow, picks up immediately after the first book finishes, and the long ago Emperor Qin Zheng is awake now and won’t be dying of the plague he was certainly dying from. He is immediately accepted as the ruler of Huaxia, and has absolute power. Zetian marries him, and they implement what seems to have parallels to the rise of Communist China and Mao Zedong. He strips wealthy folks of their lands to redistribute and he imprisons and executes many […]

Childe Roland to the dark tower came

The Dark Tower I: The Gungslinger by Stephen King

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After decades, I’ve decided to make my second pilgrimage to the Tower. The Gunslinger is the first in King’s most ambitious series, where his sprawling, multiversal, interconnected worlds are tied together.  Any Constant Reader worth their salt has made the trip to the Tower at least once. So as I stared down the final few weeks of my marathon training, I decided that I wanted my companion on the long, slow training runs to be Roland. In the world of the Dark Tower, “the man […]

I think I prefer her contemporaries

Manic Pixie Dream Earl by Jenny Holiday

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3.5 stars Thanks to Jenny Holiday, Netgalley and Tantor Audio for this ARC. My opinion is my own. Edward “Effie” Astley, Viscount Featherfinch, is a poet and a terrible disappointment to his father. Thankfully, he’s about to set off on the annual “Earl’s trip” with his two best friends, who support him come what may. So they don’t ask any questions when Effie asks them to help him store a broken printing press, nor why he’s so preoccupied with letters from a Miss Evans. Effie […]

“And now it was time to get fucked by a robot to meet her unborn child.”

Margo's Got Money Trouble by Rufi Thorpe

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  A story about perseverance, forgiveness, and the answer to the question of what Pokemon is your dick  most like. Plot: Margo has been floating through life with little in the way of inter or introspection. At 20, she’s plowing her way through community college and her literature professor, though neither with any serious enthusiasm. Since her 37 year old prof was really confident about the pull out method, she winds up pregnant, and against every piece of advice, she decides to keep the baby. Why? […]



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