Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Magical love in a small town

Witch Please (Fix It Witches #1) by Ann Aguirre

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I can’t say no to a witch-y romance. I liked Ann Aguirre’s Grimspace, so it was a no-brainer to pre-order Witch Please. I had planned to read it in time for The Ripped Bodice book club. Alas, life got in the way. I did finish it up during the Thanksgiving break. This small-town romance brings together baker Titus and secret witch Danica. Danica lives with her cousin Clem. Together they own a local repair shop where they can practice their special magic to fix broken things. […]

I’ve “stumbled into a mystic portal where everything was weirder and more interesting and infinitely better”

Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

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CBR13Bingo: Free – I got this as an ARC Yes, the book is just as sweet and adorable as the cover suggests. At one point, Titus feels like he’s “stumbled into a mystic portal where everything was weirder and more interesting and infinitely better” which honestly is a pretty good description of how I felt reading this book. Danica and her cousin Clem manage a repair shop called Fix-It Witches in a small midwestern town. Their secret? They are actually mechanically-inclined witches who use their magic to […]

Titus smiled, “I met the woman I’m going to marry.”

Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

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I have been looking forward to Witch Please for months. I love Ann Aguirre’s books. She has gotten me through the last two years with some parts of my soul and sanity intact. On top of that already solid reason, Courtney Milan said she read Witch Please months ago and, well, the blurb is right there on the cover: “Sheer happiness in a book…”  How can you argue with that? You can’t. Fortunately, I got my hands on an arc and I have read it […]

What if Hunger Games but about aliens and for adults?

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

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Can you have a cinnamon roll hero whose body is literal armor? I guess so. Plot: Beryl is doing community service cleaning up after some LARPers (no we do not find out why she has to do community service or why this would qualify). Meanwhile, Zylar, an alien described at one point as resembling the Alien from Predator, is en route to pick up his fiancee, who he is not stoked about and has never met, but on Barath, you get five shots at successfully […]

She was all danger, all aerial murder waiting to happen

The Jaguar Knight by Ann Aguirre

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The Jaguar Knight is the final book in the Ars Numina series, which I see I’ve managed to read and reread, but not review. If you are interested, and why wouldn’t you be, you’re going to want to start with the first book, The Leopard King. This final book in the series completes the arc and provides the emotional payoff set up in the first book. Ars Numina is a series of interconnected stories which over 6 books tell the story of allied societies whose […]

An Alien Fake Dating/Pursued by a Bounty Hunter Romance

Love Code by Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre’s Strange Love was one of my favorite reads last year.  Zylar of Kith Balek looked like the Predator from Alien vs Predator, but really he was a cinnamon roll of sweetness. He accidentally kidnapped the human, Beryl Bowman and her dog, Snaps, after being misled by his ship’s AI, Helix. Love Code is Helix’s story. Helix was kind of an ass in Strange Love, but I was interested to see how an AI was going to become a romantic main character. When Love Code opens, Helix […]



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