Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You’ll never like the way I break the laws you make.

Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis

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Hi! I’m going to need you all to go read this series so that I can get more books! I need a fully radicalized (corrupted? No, he can’t be corrupted, he must be radicalized) Rian. I need a Strom Fedor meltdown. I need more of Ada stealing things right under everyone’s noses. Maybe Strom Fedor can also die in a cheese explosion. I just need more stories in the Chaotic Orbits series. To clarify, no Last Chance to Save the World does not end on […]

“Surely sasquaches have refractory periods too.”

At First Spite by Olivia Dade

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Plot: Athena’s short-lived engagement has just ended, because her fiancé was convinced by his brother that they were a bad match. Rude. Also, maybe a little bit accurate, since he’s a doctor and she is sort of a hot mess that was relying on this marriage to buy her time to figure out her career and finances after her teaching job burned her out. Well, she might be out of money and resources, but she was not out of spite. She’d put a downpayment on […]

Three and a half Golden Pippins!

At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

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Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of my favourite historical novels, it’s extremely well researched and although it’s completely fictional, it could very plausibly have happened as told. Remarkable Creatures falls into the same category, I loved it as well, so I was ready to read/listen to another novel by Tracy Chevalier and see what world she would bring to life this time. In At the Edge of the Orchard, the historical background is the colonization of the American West, the Gold Rush, and […]

“What good is passion without trust?”

Murder By Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, #1) by Olivia Waite

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Another cozy mystery series I actually like! I love that they are going more mainstream, and becoming less formulaic and more creative as the genre expands. This one is set in space! Our main character is Dorothy Gentleman, ship’s detective. She is awoken from a two year “sleep” (characters on this ship have their memories stored in books so when they die they can be reawakened in […]

This cute green card plot has very different connotations right now

Roomies by Christina Lauren

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I now feel like I’m wasting time if I’m not listening to an audiobook while I’m in my car, so I’m always on the lookout for a book that will hopefully work well for listening. I’ve read a couple of books by Christina Lauren (two writing-partner friends who smash their first names together to make one author’s name), so when I saw Roomies (2017) available at the library, I figured I would enjoy listening to it. Unfortunately, this one was not my favorite. There were some good […]

Who are you selling your soul to?

Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

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I enjoyed this so much! First of all if you can, get the audio book. Jolene Kim is an amazing narrator. There were moments when I forgot this wasn’t a full cast production. Second, it’s a heist – a queer as hell sci-fi heist with a Schmelon Schmusk coded bad guy. There’s a dash of second chance, friends to enemies to lovers romance, but mostly it’s about Edie trying to figure out their life when they are surprise paroled from prison. Edie wants to go […]



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