Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A new Lucy Parker romance with actors falling for each other

Misdirected by Lucy Parker

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CBR17 Bingo: Work (Actors on set – and in private) I read this book at the end of March, and as such, I’m going to rely on the official plot summary to help me out here: Hattie Murton never dreamed of TV stardom. A straight-from-a-fairytale encounter with a casting agent somehow landed her a part on what she’d thought would be a one-off pilot for Leicester Square, a bodice-ripping drama adapted from a bestselling romance novel. Buoyed by a surge in demand for romantic dramas, […]

“So if you don’t mind, I need your stupid brain and maybe a reassuring glasses cleaning or two.”

Slayers: A Buffyverse Story by Amber Benson

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my favorite shows of all time. Full stop. So I was immediately curious about this new spin on an old favorite, capitalizing on our cultural zeitgeist for multiverse properties. Why Buffy? Why not! When I learned that the series was written by Amber Benson, i.e., the actress who played fan favorite Tara? Take my money, Audible. And they did. I saw a three-star review of this story that started with “I never watched Buffy but…” Let me go ahead […]

Now only the really tragic sections of the story are left

Sandman, Act III by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

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4.5 stars Act III of the full-cast audio adaptation of The Sandman was suddenly released with what felt like absolutely no fanfare or previous advertising. Suddenly, one day, it was just there on Audible. This installment covers the two collections Brief Lives and World’s End, as well as some of the stories collected in the anthology volume Fables and Reflections (the very first volume I ever read). It means we finally get the full and tragic story of Dream’s son Orpheus and his beloved Euridyce, […]

A Psalm for my Inner Perfectionist

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

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I discovered to my horror while reading an arc for Monk and Robot #2, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, that I never finished my review of A Psalm for the the Wild Built. I’m also not surprised, because my love for it overwhelms me into a flailing state of indecipherable babbling and crying. There are some novellas that are like the Tardis, so much bigger than you think they could possibly be. I’ve listened to A Psalm for the Wild-Built three times now, and I […]

“She’s you. You’re her.” “Maybe, but she’s still a complete stranger to me.”

Repeat by Kylie Scott

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Somehow, while letting Audible throw romances narrated by Andi Arndt into my ears, I ended up listening to Kylie Scott’s Repeat. There was stuff I liked, stuff I didn’t like, and it was a solidly enjoyable, perfectly fine listen. I like Arndt’s voice. In Repeat, Clementine Johns is recovering from a head injury that has given her amnesia. While searching out information about herself, she walks into a tattoo parlor where she is met by a bunch of angry faces, including the large, handsome tattoo […]

This was great! When is the second book coming?

The Councillor by E.J. Beaton

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Hi. I loved this. Thank you Aquillia. That’s my review. Ugh, so many more words needed. Also, I know I ask for the next book in the title of this review, but I support writers writing on their own schedule. I started listening to the audiobook, narrated by Moira Quirk, after reading Aquillia’s review. When I got to somewhere near the end, I realized that I did not want this book to end and I did not see any information about a release date for […]



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