Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

Is the kid traumatized or murderous?

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

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I was excited when I heard about Sarah Pekkanen’s new book House of Glass, since I’d read several of her collaborative novels with Greer Hendricks and found them to be excellent thrillers. I wasn’t sure, at first, how I felt about House of Glass. It took me a few chapters to get into it, and I’m not entirely sure why. But once I did get into it, I was hooked. I read this in a single day, that’s how much I didn’t want to put […]

Holding out Hope for some intrigue

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

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For the second book in the series, I’m not optimistic. It took me almost a month of picking it up and putting it back down to finally complete Crown of Midnight. Most of the story felt tired. The love triangle, the deceit, even the rebel storyline couldn’t keep my attention for very long. I fear this series may have just killed off the most interesting character so far. If it weren’t for Fleetfoot, I may have put it down right then. I can see the […]

How to Train your Dragon, but with cursing

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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I am a sucker for a good fantasy book in a school setting. I am sure a lot of that is due to Harry Potter, but I think an academic setting provides a good skeleton for a story. They almost always start shortly before a school year, and run all the way until a final exam. I am sure Fourth Wing will invite many comparisons to Harry Potter and the Hunger Games, but it reminded me quite a bit more of The Poppy War by […]

Gorgeous

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

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Tia Williams has just made me like a fated lovers romance. Not like. Love. Lovers who are destined for each other is one of my least favorite tropes, but WIlliams makes this work for me. She throws in the right mix of magic and logic, and gives us achingly human characters. Now is the perfect time to read this. A lot of the action takes place in February 2024. Williams grounds her magic in the leap year, almost making me believe in the magic of […]

A romantic memoir about the idea of love

The Visitor (The One #5) by Dodai Stewart

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“The Visitor” is a true story from journalist Dodai Stewart. On NYE, I stumbled upon it looking for something quick to hit my book goal. Once I began, I realized I’d rather savor it. I finished the audiobook while walking my pup on New Year’s Day. The story is a poignant musing on the idea of love. She explains how she grew up in New York. She loves how cinematic living in the city can be. Everything seems full of promise and glamor, especially when […]

Liz Tomforde And My Straight Sports Romance Conundrum

Mile High by Liz Tomforde

The Right Move by Liz Tomforde

Caught Up by Liz Tomforde

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  As a queer romance reader, I’ve been really frustrated with myself for the past few years. For some reason, I just don’t enjoy queer romance novels as much as I do ‘straight’ ones. Obviously, there are exceptions, but often, I feel like a lot of these romances are written in unintentionally heteronormative registers, which dulls the chemistry and the tension that makes a book sing. A significant exception to this, I have found, is the ‘Sports Romance’ genre [given my familiarity with Archive Of Our […]



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