Cannonball Read 17

I don’t know what a newt is. It’s a lizard, right? I really don’t want to be a lizard.

The Kiss Curse (Graves Glen #2) by Erin Sterling

October 19, 2025 by carmelpie 2 Comments

Gwyn had no doubt that whoever he was, his ancestors had absolutely once stared down the business end of a guillotine. You didn’t get cheekbones like that without oppressing some peasants. ― Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse CBR17 Bingo: Purple This story takes place one year after The Ex … [Read more]

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr17bingo, enemies to lovers, Erin Sterling, family feud, halloween, idiots to lovers, magical creatures, witchcraft ·

Cozy Spooky Sexy Fun

The Ex Hex (Graves Glen #1) by Erin Sterling

October 19, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

"Vivi, if we could actually place curses on people, that bitch who always gives me whole milk when I ask for soy at Coffee Cauldron would be a dead woman by now,” Gwyn said. ― Erin Sterling, The Ex Hex Goddess, we beseech you that this man shall never again darken Vivi’s door nor her vagina. ― … [Read more]

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:32 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr17bingo, Erin Sterling, exes to lovers, halloween, magical creatures, Making Up, miscommunication ·

How to save the community center

How to age disgracefully by Clare Pooley

October 19, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

This was a fun read - it feels very much in the same tradition as novels like Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murder or The Thursday Murder Club. To be clear, this one doesn’t have a murder (just an unfortunately timed death when a ceiling partially collapses) but it has a similar mix of zany … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Clare Pooley, multi pov ·

Norse inspired marriage of convenience

Tears of the Wolf by Elisabeth Wheatley

October 19, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I wouldn’t have said that I was on Norse or Viking kick this year and yet this is somehow the fifth Viking/Nordic inspired fantasy novel I have read this year (three of them were part of the same trilogy, though, The Bloodsworn). I discovered Elisabeth Wheatley because her book goblin reels/videos … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:102 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: arranged marriage, Book goblin, dogs, Elisabeth Wheatley, Norse inspired, sorceresses, Wrath and weeping ·

The ones who left

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

October 19, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square - Diaspora (it says so right in the novel’s description - follows two main characters that left China during the war between the Nationalists and Communists and represents two different paths). Also, this makes my first Bingo (4th column is complete). This novel follows the lives of … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:101 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr17bingo, Chinese Cultural Revolution, Chinese history, immigrant, Karissa Chen ·

“ No, Charlie wanted to insist. People only love you if you make it worth their while. No one loves you once they see your weaknesses. No one loved your flaws. No one loves your ugly, broken parts. No one loves you and expects nothing more than your love in return.”

Thief of Night (The Charlatan Duology #2) by Holly Black

October 19, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Charlie Hall, glue trap for disaster, crooked from the day she was born, who’d never met a bad decision she wasn’t willing to double down on, may have finally met her match. After the events of the previous book, Charlie actually thought she'd won. She had managed to defeat Lionel Salt, and … [Read more]

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:136 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charlatan duology, Holly Black, Massachusetts, shadows ·

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Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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