Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.”

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

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Towards the end of June Nart reviewed What I Did for a Duke by Julie Ann Long and I had an immediate urge to drop what I was doing and go find my nook so I could start a re-read. I don’t do a ton of re-reading but there was something about this story that has kept an urge to visit it again simmering in my brain. I had visceral memories of the way the characters spoke to each other being delicious, and the house […]

A cozy sff mystery novella that is set in the future but feels like it’s set in the past.

The Mimicking of Known Successes (Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Older

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 27/30 This was really good! I loved the vibes and the writing and the setting. Definitely reading book two. I’m honestly surprised how much I liked this. It’s really hard to find great, vibesy sci-fi these days. A lot of sff authors go for the colder, more depressing, gritty machine-like futures, I think forgetting that humans like to be COMFY. Even though this book is set after humans have colonized Jupiter (of all places); the humans here […]

Truth in Dreams?

Cursed Princess Club v.3 by LambCat

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Bingo 1: Dreams Starting in the center because 1) it fits my most recent read, and 2) it’s not bad bingo strategy. Dreams and prophecies are common in fairy tales, and The Cursed Princess Club (v.3), being the fairy-tale riff that it is, is no exception. The main plot this time deals with Gwen getting her portrait painted by Lord Leopold. Gwen is the third princess but she’s different as the third child always is, but in her case her difference is that she’s not […]

“All signs point toward your murder.”

How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 4/30 This wasn’t as clever as I wanted it to be, and I think it wasted the premise a bit, but overall I had a fun time reading it, and I finished it in a day, so clearly I can’t have that many complaints. The main plot features Annie Adams learning that she has just been made an inheritor of her great-aunt Frances’s will, a woman she’s never met, and traveling to the small town of Castle […]

“God, if she caught feelings, she was going to have to kick her own ass.”

Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

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4.5 stars CBR16 Sweet Books: Cozy 48-year-old Maggie’s son has recently moved away to college and now she’s stuck in the big house she got in the divorce some years earlier, in a town where she barely knows anyone. She’s unapologetically grumpy and doesn’t actually want to expand her social circle. She worries about her son in college, however, and keeps trying to challenge him to socialise and make friends. He turns the table on her and demands that she do the same. She has […]

Double Cinnamon Roll Slowburn

Time to Shine by Rachel Reid

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“I mean, everyone knows how I feel about you.” “What?” “Yeah. I think I was pretty obvious about it. The guys have been teasing me.” “Oh my god. Landon moaned. “This is going to be so weird.” “Nah, I’ll play it totally cool. “No tongue.” “No kissing at all, you fucking doofus.” “I know. Don’t worry, I won’t even talk to you. Won’t look at you. Who are you, even?” “Thank you.” ― Rachel Reid, Time to Shine Casey lit Landon up, filling all his […]



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