Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Mia Vincy is the gift that keeps giving

A Dangerous Kind of Lady by Mia Vincy

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While this is the third novel Mia Vincy has published, and the second book chronologically in her Stanhope Abbey series, all the books work well on their own. She writes excellent historical romances, though, so you should check out all of them. Arabella Larke has been promised to Guy Roth, the Marquess of Hardbury since they were both children. He’s been off exploring the world for years and years, and Arabella has been able to put off any other offers of marriage because she claimed to be […]

Worth it for the hilarious conversation about orchids alone

A Beastly Kind of Earl by Mia Vincy

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Some years ago (I want to say three?), two noblemen lied at a ball and claimed to have slept with Miss Thea Knight. She was humiliated and scandalised and both family and high society rejected her. She’s been living lonely in the country under an assumed name as a ladies’ companion. Now she’s pretending to be her younger sister at a house party, so said sister can run away to Gretna Green and marry her true love. She also plans to publish a pamphlet with […]

A re-read before Rhythm of War.

Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

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Honestly not sure what I’m about to type, because I don’t want to do a full review. I hadn’t re-read this book since it first came out and I knew I barely remembered it, and even the detailed summaries over on the Coppermind wouldn’t be good enough for to prep for book four. It really helped me when this book came out in 2017 that I had books one and two fresh in my mind from a recent re-read, so I got the audiobook from […]

When you’ve been told your whole life who and what to believe, who can you ultimately trust?

The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson

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Piper experiences life Before and After her life in The Community, a religious cult secluded somewhere in Northern California. Before, in The Community, Piper is happy. She has her brothers and sisters; she has a lake and a garden where all of their fresh vegetables are grown for the family. She has her Aunties, stern caregivers who take care of Piper and all of her younger siblings. Her Mother and Father do not live with Piper and her siblings but rather take care of everything […]

You learn your lessons and stay vigilant, or you die

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

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4.5 stars Official book description: A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die!    The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the […]

I understand why people like these books; I’m just not one of them

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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Hastings is on leave from military service during World War 1. He is staying with an old acquaintance, John Kavendish, at the estate at Styles. It is not Kavendish’s house or property but that of his step-mother Emily Inglethorp who has proven to be a very generous benefactor of the war efforts. Also staying at Styles is Mary, John’s wife, Lawrence, John’s brother, Cynthia, the daughter of family friends whose parents recently passed, Dorcas, the maid, Evelyn, a friend of Emily’s, and most scandalously, Alfred, […]



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