Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A series of 4* romances that I’ve read!

Don't Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Larsen

Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

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Don’t Hate the Player I did not expect to like this as much as I did! It’s a lovely, charming story with engaging lead characters and just the right level of stakes given their relative ages. The story is your classic “I have two lives” hyper focused female lead, except in this case she is both a straight A field hockey type with a tiger mom and a pretty good eSports player on a team that’s one step away from just being called Evil Guys. […]

This was the only book I was able to write a mini-review through my massive anxiety attack!

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

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Reader’s Choice/Sports Ball: because that’ll probably be my waterloo, otherwise! Will write a better review in a bit but just a quick one off–is this as good as A Memory Called Empire? Perhaps not, there is a bit of impenetrable language (DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE, FOR YOU, THREE SWEETGRASS) that seems difficult for the sake of being difficult BUT I just loved it so much, okay? I missed two buses because I was so wrapped up in this book, and for the second […]

A large set of 3* romances as I try and catch up on reviews

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Twice Shy Midway through this book I had this sneaking sense of deja vu, like I’d been here before or seen this before–and no, it wasn’t that I’d read this book before but that I’ve read this author before–Sarah Hogle also wrote You Deserve Each Other which was a truly difficult book to get through, a la what I imagine the TV show You’re the Worst to be like but without the expectation that these two were the worst. So, in any case, we’re midway through this […]

A recommendation that was a good change of pace

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Cityscape: there’s the city of Saint-Malo on the front! I originally had this as a four star novel, but I’ve knocked it down to three stars due to Doerr’s use of short, different-POV chapters to generate suspense, which I’ve come to realize it’s one of my least favorite mechanisms to generate suspense and tension. And in a book like this–where we are in literal Nazi occupied France, late stages of war–it’s almost unnecessary. But it does let you elongate smaller sections of action into more […]

White Whale Finally Caught (there’s another right behind it)

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

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White Whale: My brother has been telling me to read these books for two years now! THIS was actually the last book I had on my backlog of reviews, I swear, and it’s not even in the backlog–I just finished it! This definitely gets categorized on the (one of many) white whale novels shelf, because I read the first book over two years ago on the advice of my brother, and then promptly decided since I didn’t need to read the next one right away (no obvious […]

“Forgetting their childhoods had been essential for their survival, but it came at a cost.”

With My LIttle Eye by Sandra Hogan

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CBRBingo:  Reader’s Choice subbing in for Rep I first heard about this book from a newspaper article with a heading about spies in the suburbs, and was tantalised by the idea of a family of spies living in the same leafy, sleepy suburb of Brisbane as me.  I then heard an engaging radio interview  with Sue Ellen Doherty that focused on the hijinks of her and her siblings tagging along with their dad as he cultivated his network of informants, and monitored the activities of […]



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