Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A little faerie magic and a lot about real world sustainable gardening practices

Shroom for Improvement (Mythical Mishaps #1) by Jemma Croft

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“So, you’ve seen me naked before?” I said. “Oh, yes, many times. You have a beautiful body, by the way.” My cheeks heated. Damn. It had been so long since anybody had complimented me, I was blushing at the disembodied words of a magical house. ​​ ― Jemma Croft, Shroom for Improvement CBR17 Bingo: School Sonny is a professor and his knowledge of mycology is a key part of the story. Sonny Daye has a problem. To complete his research on mushroom glamours, he must […]

I don’t know what a newt is. It’s a lizard, right? I really don’t want to be a lizard.

The Kiss Curse (Graves Glen #2) by Erin Sterling

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Gwyn had no doubt that whoever he was, his ancestors had absolutely once stared down the business end of a guillotine. You didn’t get cheekbones like that without oppressing some peasants. ― Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse CBR17 Bingo: Purple This story takes place one year after The Ex Hex. Gwynn is bored. Her shop, Something Wicked, is barely breaking even, she hasn’t had a relationship in over a year, and her cousin and best friend Vivi is disgustingly in love and unavailable for witchy shenanigans […]

Romance Focused on Overcoming Fear

The Wedding Con by Janine Amesta

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Last week I sped-read through Love at First Flight, sinking into the Central Oregon setting and the lives of the Moreno family that Janine Amesta created. It spurred me to pick up the ARC I had of The Wedding Con and get to reading it immediately.  Where Love at First Flight focuses on the grief journeys of its leads, The Wedding Con focuses on fear. Naomi Moreno is the middle sister and had witnessed her father be suckered into get rich quick investment schemes via YouTube […]

“Armageddon was a fire in the harbor, a box delivered on a cold day. It wasn’t one great tragedy, but ten million tiny ones, and everyone faced theirs alone.”

The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel by Katherine Arden

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They are fighting their war in the last world, but we’re dying in this one. January 1918. Laura Iven, a revered field nurse, wounded when the Germans bombed the munitions depot her field hospital was next to, is discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Months later, back home in Halifax, Canada, Laura lives assisting three elderly mediums after the deaths of her parents. On the night that Pim Shaw, a young widow seeking to connect with her son, […]

“Once upon a time, there was a human girl stolen away by faeries, and because of that, she swore to destroy them.”

The Wicked King by Holly Black

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And the hits keep coming and they don’t stop coming. Jude has succeeded in her plans; her brother Oak, heir to the throne of Faerie is safe; Cardan sits on the throne in his stead, with Jude as the power behind the throne. If only Cardan wasn’t trying to thwart her at every turn, enemies weren’t behind every corner, someone close to her wasn’t planning to betray her, and Jude hadn’t accidentally caught the feels for Cardan. As the promised year of Cardan’s semi-obedience to […]

I’d need a nap, but hey, you do you.

Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliot

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“I want to keep things anything but professional,” he said, voice low. It thrummed somewhere deep in my stomach. “I mean, unless you want to keep things professional.” I traced my own thumbs over his palms. They curled reflexively up into my hands. “I want you to stop saying the word professional. And thinking it.” I swallowed hard. Once I said this, there was no going back. But I didn’t want to go back. “I don’t want to keep things professional. At all.” “Then we’re […]



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