Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I wish that top image was mine (thanks internet) but the review is mine

Brume: The Dragon Awakens by Jérôme Pélissier

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Brume: The Dragon Awakens by Jérôme Pélissier, illustrated by Carine Hinder Due September 2025   Read via an online reader copy.  What it is about: Magic, mischief and mystery. Well, there is more than that. Like Brume herself. She is a (publisher says feisty, I say down right bratty at times) young girl who is convinced she can do magic. She wants to be the village witch now that the old village witch has gone missing for several years. She is a child found in […]

“Dance, Dance, Dance, AS IF, tomorrow we all shall die!”

Disco Witches of Fire Island: A Novel by Blair Fell

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It’s 1989 and half-Armenian Philly resident Joe Agabian is trying to get over the death of his boyfriend Eddie, who he lost two years ago to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. When his best friend Ronnie gets them jobs on Fire Island, Joe figures this is the perfect chance to finally start living again. Once there, they are taken under the wings of Larry and Howie, two older quirky and eccentric gay men who work as house cleaners for the rich of Fire Island. As Joe starts […]

Hello and welcome to the Galactic Peacekeepers Society…… We come in peace

Ami Moon and the Galactic Peacekeepers: Book One Volume 1 by Frances Lee

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The powers that be do not want me to write a review for Ami Moon and the Galactic Peacekeepers: Book One Volume 1 by Frances Lee. I had a long review typed out,  when I went to post, I hit something and the entire thing was erased. I then tried multiple times to restart it and it kept screwing up. I finally got it into a document and then couldn’t remember what I wanted to say/what I had said!. Wracking my brain, I came up […]

“When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.”

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

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When Fiat.Luxury reviewed When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain I went to my library to put in a hold and discovered that we had both it and the first in the cycle, The Empress of Salt & Fortune available as audiobooks. I was on the hunt for audiobooks to keep me company on my commute so instead of just requesting When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain I went ahead and requested The Empress of Salt & Fortune as well.   The Empress of Salt […]

what happens when you impulse murder a monarch

Anji Kills a King (The Rising Tide, #1) by Evan Leikam

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This was a really interesting debut fantasy, but it didn’t quiiiite do it for me. I thought it was more intellectually interesting than emotionally, but I am going to read the rest of the series because I’m super curious to see where this is going. We start out strong with the titular Anji killing the king and then going on the run. We don’t know who she […]

Welcome to your life. There’s no turning back.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler

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I read the first book, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, in Django Wexler’s Dark Lord Davi duology last year, and while I didn’t love it, I enjoyed it enough to want to read the sequel, Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me. The book continues the story of Davi, a young woman from our world who has gotten herself trapped in a time loop in a fairly standard medieval fantasy world. Every time the loop resets, she wakes up in […]



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