Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

All I Want is My Own Cinnamon Roll Monster Boyfriend

Bitterburn by Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre is starting a new series of gothic fairytale retellings. In Bitterburn, she is retelling Beauty and the Beast, but has added in some elements of Bluebeard. I received an arc from the author in exchange for an honest review. If you don’t know, a cinnamon roll is a love interest who is warm, sweet, supportive and gooey on the inside. They might also be a lot of other things, but their support for their love is unqualified. Njal is the Beast of Bitterburn, a […]

Though Beryl Hadn’t Been to Every Planet, She’d Stand Firm on the Opinion That Most Worlds Could Benefit From Canines

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

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I fell in love with this book before I was through the first chapter. It is the sunshiniest. smooshiest, center of the cinnamon rolliest romance. It’s funny and surprisingly sexy, but mostly it hits on the importance of finding people who value you for yourself. Zylar of Kith Balak has only one more chance to be approved for mating. He thinks he’s going to meet a prospective mate with whom to enter the Choosing competition but something happens to his ship and he lands on […]

“Life goes on whether we want it to or not. And laughter is a constant.”

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre

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Grimspace is a space opera a la Firefly, Farscape, and Star Wars. So if you like really intense, uneven storytelling that involves STAKES but also YA level angst, you’re going to eat this book up. The story is told by Sirantha Jax, our protagonist. She is a jumper, a rare breed of person with the genetic compatibility to do space jump things. I really appreciate the author’s attempt to create science fiction tech that isn’t just robots and impulse engines and worm holes. Not that […]

A familiar but not unwelcome story

Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre

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While I waited for my hold to come up on the finale of Rachel Caine’s The Great Library series, I dipped my toe into Honor Among Thieves. I am glad she chose to co-write this with another author because I very quickly saw a lot of similar themes from TGL and was relieved not to be reading an author’s remix of her own books, even if I like those other books. Honor Among Thieves is different enough to keep me interested and is yet another series I will […]

New to me sci fi romance where we jump across galaxies

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre

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I can get stuck in a paranormal romance rut, but I also love me some romance in space. Even better if there’s a twist on the enemies to lovers trope. Grimspace is the first Sirantha Jax novel from Ann Aguirre. This sci-fi romance is written from the main character’s point of view. In this part of the universe, space travel requires a pilot and a special navigator like Sirantha to fly through the wormhole-esque grimspace. Ships can jump through the galaxies with these jumpers possessing […]



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