Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She’d worked so hard to deserve the goodness of her life now, but accepting it was something else entirely.

Single Dads Club by Therese Beharrie

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Therese Beharrie’s Single Dads Club is a messy (in a good way) slow burn romance with two people trying to build new lives for themselves and be better than their parents, while prioritizing Rowan’s new born son. Delilah and Rowan have each ended up in Sugarbush Bay after significant upheaval in their personal lives. A few years earlier, Delilah’s mother was convicted of bilking her middle class clients out of their life savings. Delilah fled to her older brother in Sugarbush Bay and has been […]

Yell if I can help dig some graves once you’re finished.

The Sorceress Transcendent by Casey Blair

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I love well done enemies to lovers romance. Bonus points if it’s scifi or fantasy. The Sorceress Transcendent is fantasy. It’s a quick read, with a nice blend of action and domestic comfort. Varius and Theira have fought on opposite sides of an ever lasting war for years. Varius was a general and Theira a sorceress, second only in power to the autocratic Sorcerer Ascendant. They have studied each other on the battlefield, almost flirting through tactics. Now, pushed too far by the empire he […]

I love that your first instinct was to Google and try to find books on Amazon.”

The Rachel Experiment by Lisa Lin

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Rachel Bai is very good at her job as a financial analyst. She loves the work, especially when she doesn’t have to interact with other people. Her company offers her an opportunity for advancement which means a cross country move to the San Francisco office (bonus, the move gets her away from her wedding obsessed younger sister), and a six month trial period managing a team of people (major downside, anxiety inducing). Her first weekend in San Francisco, Rachel goes to a bar where she […]

I’m living Athena’s life. I’m experiencing publishing the way it’s supposed to work.

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

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I know what you’re thinking. Thief. Plagiarizer. And perhaps, because all bad things must be racially motivated, Racist. Hear me out. It’s not so awful as it sounds. Readers, it is exactly as bad as it sounds. Juniper Song Hayward is bad person, but don’t worry, she has forgiven herself. Yellowface is told to the reader by June. We are her confessor. She tells us all of her resentments, fears, manipulations, and triumphs. Most of all, she tells us her rationalizations. Athena Liu and June […]

Deep down, we’re all weird

Goblin Mode by McKayla Coyle

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McKayla Coyle’s Goblin Mode, is a bit of an odd choice for me to review, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Personally, I don’t really have a well formed aesthetic. I like what I like and none of it really matches or fits a philosophy or lifestyle. However, I appreciate goblincore’s rejection of Capitalism and conformity. I’m not so much into the nature aspects of goblincore (I have allergies), but I appreciate the weirdness, the clutter, the comfort, and the not fitting in to a mainstream […]

“He’s a grief-stricken madman.” “He’s just like us.”

Witch King by Martha Wells

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Martha Wells knows how to grab a reader by the throat right at the beginning. We meet Kai, the Witch King, in a moment of confusion. His body has been murdered and he has awakened in a tomb designed to keep him trapped. One friend is trapped with him, but not others. Who betrayed him, and where are the other members of his family? Kai is a demon prince, invited to inhabit the body of a dying human girl. The life above ground that he expects […]



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