baked goods – Cannonball Read 17

Shifters, fairies, bake offs, oh myyyy

The Alpha and the Baker by Roxie Ray

September 4, 2025 by katie71483 2 Comments

Y’all, when I tell you this delightfully sweet and sexy bon bon of a novel is everything I needed to take my mind off of [insert Kermit flail here] everything. I just didn’t know it when I started The Alpha and the Baker by Roxie Ray this morning. Castiel McAllister*, known by one and all as Cas, is a golden retriever of an alpha wolf shifter. Nary a grunt or assholery behavior to be found, only a desire for his pack to be safe, healthy […]

Cannonballers are so smart

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

June 10, 2022 by Bothari43 4 Comments

I’ve read and liked Robin McKinley, but somehow I managed to miss this one. Then a bunch of Cannonballers were commenting on another McKinley review that Sunshine was the best vampire book they’d ever read. When I found it at a library book sale, I was super psyched, and I was not disappointed. Rae Seddon (get it? Rae of Sunshine?) is a baker at a coffee shop. (So many descriptions of baked goods in this book. Drool.) Her stepfather owns the coffee shop, her mother […]

Magical Realism and Baked Goods

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

January 31, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

As I come off of winter break and into the craziness of a new semester, I’ve been drawn to books that are a bit lighter in tone, to balance out the more serious stuff I’m reading for work. I’m looking for things that go down easy and don’t tax my brain or require intense concentration. Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber provided just the mix of magical realism and baked goods that I needed. This novel tells the story of two daughters who […]

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