Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hester came awake in the night because something had ended.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

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What happens when the weirdest cozy fantasy horror novelist you know of becomes inspired by Bridgerton? A Sorceress Comes to Call is what happens. T. Kingfisher blends the Regency romance of Bridgerton with the Goose Girl fairy tale, a very bad mom, a heaping tablespoon horror, shakes it all up and serves it over a middle aged woman and a teenage girl who are willing to fight an evil who isn’t afraid to kill the innocent. I am 8 books deep in a T. Kingfisher binge. I […]

There was one women who was special…and here she was, carefully instructing him on how to marry someone else.

Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti

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Peter Kent may have just become a Duke, but that doesn’t mean he is guaranteed to get custody of his younger half siblings, especially when the judge making that decision dislikes him for his radical abolitionist position. He decides to ask the smartest person he knows for help, but since she is the unmarried sister of an earl, he gets the earl and his wife involved as well. It becomes a whole family project. Selina Ravenscroft, the smartest person Peter Kent knows, decides he must […]

Nikhil preened. “Are you surprised that Mahreen Kamal can create a fashion icon?”

Just Playing House by Farah Heron

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Happy Canada Day! I read Farah Heron’s Just Playing House while I was laid low by a stomach virus last week. It was lovely and perfect to read about a hot man taking care of the woman he’s had a crush on for years. There are a lot of reasons I like reading romance. Reading this book at this moment was all about wish fulfillment. Someone who wants to care take, yes, I want to read that when I feel terrible. Someone who has a […]

Sometimes you have to really f*ck something up before you can fully appreciate it.

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

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Twyla and Frank are both 53 years old. They are solidly middle aged protagonists who look and act like people in their mid 50s. As a mid 50’s person myself, I loved this. Love, love, loved it! There were also other things I loved, but I really need you to know that a 53 year old woman is wooed by two men, befriends dragons and saves the day. Life for the Tanrian Marshals has quieted down since Hart Ralston solved the drudge problem in The […]

She had even vaguely felt that it reflected ill upon her to have attracted an assassin of such incompetence, however grateful for that lack of skill she might be.

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray

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Having been thrown together by happenstance to investigate murder in the first two books, Mr. Jonathan Darcy and Miss Juliet Tilney are instead commanded to attend to Lady Catherine de Bourgh and stop the murder attempts being made upon her life. Young Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney are pleased to be able to see each other again and determined to catch the culprit before they are successful in their attempts. Their fathers are far less enthusiastic, though the do agree to travel to Rosings Park […]

All I’ve wanted these past few days is to get as close to you as you’ve somehow gotten to me.

Take Me Home by Melanie Sweeney

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Melanie Sweeney’s Take Me Home is a wonderfully assured debut romance. There’s frenemies to lovers, a road trip, only one bed, a promise to not catch feelings if they just mess around over the holidays, and that emotional growth spurt that happens in your mid twenties. Hazel and Ash are such lovely characters to spend time with – funny, smart, generous, and doing their best to be good people. They are both adults, doing adult things, taking care of their adult lives, but kind of still […]



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