Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“If all goes well, human history is just beginning.”

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord

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“The Anthropocene is the time of profound human effects on the environment, while the Precipice is the time where humanity is at high risk of destroying itself.” There are quite a few different scenarios that could lead to the extinction of humans in the next 100 years, but some of them are negligible, like an asteroid or comet hitting the Earth, or a stellar explosion. Others, like climate change, nuclear weapons, or unaligned artificial intelligence, on the other hand, seem more likely. In this book, […]

“Power taken and not returned incurs a debt. And the universe, and the debt, will always come to collect, one way or another.” #CBRBINGO – Mythic

Legendborn (Legendborn, #1) by Tracy Deonn

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This takes tired YA fantasy tropes and makes them feel so fresh. Just a super solid book and I can’t wait to see where she takes the rest of the series. So I finished this book back in July and I was riding high off of it, but I procrastinated the review, so my middle-aged brain is having to strain a little on this one. Bottom line before you read any further, if you normally stay away from YA fantasy like I do, because of […]

They Knew Each Other By the End

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

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Read as part of CBR13bingo: flora. There are trees and plants on the cover.  If I were to teach a class on creative writing, I would without question assign one of Liane Moriarty’s books. The only other one I’ve read of hers was Big Little Lies, mostly because her accuracy on relationship dynamics is so painfully on point that I can’t stand it. I imagine I’ll finish her catalog someday. Whether I do or not, she’s a writer that perspective writers should study. Her characters are so […]

“The only good thing this broken heart of mine can feel is love for you.”

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

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The Heart Principle was delayed a year while its author Helen Hoang dealt with some personal traumas which she goes into in depth in the Author’s Note. Many of those traumas feed directly into the re-worked plot of this book. I’m firmly in the camp that this is a romance, even if the romance plotline finds itself uncentered through sections of the work, but this is certainly not a rom-com style book as its cover would want you to believe – in fact I have […]

I finally get around to actually reading Olivia Dade

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

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4.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Rec’d (by Emmalita, Narfna and FaintingViolet) Official book description: Their lesson plans didn’t include love. But that’s about to change… When Martin Krause arrives at Rose Owens’s high school, she’s determined to remain chilly with her new colleague. Unfriendly? Maybe. Understandable? Yes, since a loathsome administrator gave Rose’s beloved world history classes to Martin, knowing it would hurt her. But keeping her distance from a man as warm and kind as Martin will prove challenging, even for a stubborn, guarded ice queen. Especially when she begins […]

A ridiculously gorgeous cover, a slowburn romance, and all the drama

You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

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CBR13Bingo: Gateway First off, wow, this cover. This is the cover that all illustrated romance covers aspire to be. Plus, it fits the book perfectly, steamy and romantic and steeped in the author’s heritage. In my eyes, it’s the mark of a good author to make me care about something in a book that I know nothing about in real life. I knew Alexis Daria was capable of it; I loved her Dance Off series, which was centered around a reality dance competition. So when I […]



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