Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The right to choose makes the choices we make meaningful

Fearless at Heart by Zoe York

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Initially I wasn’t going to request Fearless at Heart because I have too many arcs and I am struggling to get reviews written right now. But then I saw a tweet about the book that said “he eats!” (iykyk). I decided I could fit in one more arc. And let that be a lesson to me about how I get people to read the books I want them to read. Plentitude of oral sex aside, Fearless at Heart is a sweet second chance romance. Seth […]

Chilled

Heated by Naima Simone

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I wasn’t ever able to really get into Naima Simone’s Heated. I’ve read and liked other Naima Simone books, so I can say it’s more a this one didn’t work for me than a there’s a problem with this book issue. Here is what I did like: Zora and her siblings run a business called Burned, Inc – Breaking Up, Reversing Nuptials & Evading Disasters. They will break up for you, get you out of an abusive relationship, or just one that you want finished […]

An Ode to Cookies in Space, or Why We Fight

Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik

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I love the humanism of the domestic that Jessie Mihalik brings to her sci-fi romance adventures. Can it be cozy sci-fi if there are shootouts, kidnappings, and chases? Maybe cozy sci-fi is the wrong term, it certainly falls within soft sci-fi.  In addition to the romance at the center of this sci-fi adventure, there is care taking, affection, and a badass woman who cries when she is overwhelmed, but still gets the job done. The crew of Starlight’s Shadow cook real food, eat together, and […]

You say tomato, I say you like her.

The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

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Amy is emotionally constipated and bossy. Sophie dives into love too quickly and is still coming to terms with being bi. Amy hired Sophie to be head chef when she opened her restaurant Amy & May’s in Boston. She had watched Sophie on a reality cooking competition show called Pop-Up Kitchen. Sophie didn’t win, but she did wind up with the producer, Paul, as a fiancé and she was a fan favorite. But things aren’t going well. Amy & May’s is struggling financially and Sophie […]

This was exactly what I needed

Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book by W. Kamau Bell, Kate Schatz

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Do you fondly remember doing activity books when you were a kid? Are you still working out how to turn your antiracist aspirations into a life of action?* W. Kamau Bell ( a Black American man) and Kate Schatz (a white American woman) have put together an antiracist activity book that is perfect for adults and older teens. It is US focused, so while antiracism is necessary around the world, the specifics of history and law won’t apply. Not everyone will appreciate the nostalgic format […]

I deserve more than to be a prize

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert

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I was asked why I wanted to read Katee Robert’s Wicked Beauty and I said it was because I wanted to see a Helen who wasn’t a pawn, and definitely a Helen who got better partners than Paris and Menelaus. Wicked Beauty delivers that with a Helen who is determined to dictate her own future, and finds herself in a competitors to lovers relationship with Achilles and Patroclus. Katee Robert’s Dark Olympus series is less a retelling of Greek mythology and more in the style […]



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