Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sentient object romances are a thing

Unhinged by Vera Valentine

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Unhinged by Vera Valentine was recommended by the LA book club crew at The Ripped Bodice. A member heard about it on TikTok (see this hilarious video from Grapie). They suggested it as a just-for-kicks buddy read. It’s on Kindle Unlimited and only about 70 pages.  Back in August, I was boarding a flight and decided to give it a go. Apologies to my plane row for dealing with my reactions to my phone. The novella’s premise is bonkers. An apartment door falls in love […]

An epic (ha) recommendation

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

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Mythic: definitely a twist on [Orpheus / Eurydice] within the pantheon of the Grecian God myths! Hmmm as I periodically think, I wish Goodreads let you give book half star ratings because this definitely positively falls under a 3.5 star rating. I think I wasn’t as into this as I thought I would be given the blurb, and then towards the end I was very into it and pretty shocked to find out that I only had about half an hour left–not because I thought […]

My dream cast for Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

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I picked this book up because I love a mythical retelling, and it was pretty fun. The entire time I was reading this book, I kept trying to think about the casting, because I think it would be a fun movie or miniseries. And because I’m a sucker for polytheistic, supernatural beings being forced to live in the modern world. Gods Behaving Badly finds the Olympian gods trapped in a house in London in the 20th century. They have lost much of their power, and […]

Tartting up Rick Riordan and Castle

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The Immortals strikes me as a combination of Castle and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. I liked Castle until the romance ruined it. In The Immortals, there’s a relationship developing between Selene (aka Artemis) and Classics professor Theo, but it’s not quite clear until towards the end what exactly it’s turning into. Selene is an avenger of wrongs against women in modern day Manhattan as an unlicensed private investigator, and Theo is the academic rock star with a bit of a past who gets pulled […]

I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love

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4.5 stars Catalia “Cat” lives with a travelling circus, disguising herself as a soothsayer. She’s been on the run for years, hiding for a number of reasons, primarily that she can tell instantly when someone is lying (she gets a shot of visceral pain throughout her body) and she can frequently divulge the truth an individual is hiding when they lie, as well. Additionally, she has the ability to siphon magic from someone else, and in turn, use that magic against the individual or others. […]

In which there are many words, but nothing happens

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The story takes place in a single day.  Adam Godley, a famous mathematician is dying, and his family and friends are gathered about his deathbed.  We are mostly (always?) with our (mostly) omnipotent narrator, the god Hermes.  Oh, yes, the Greek gods are real, and apparently bored, because they like to spend time fucking with mortals.  (And also fucking them, but that’s not the main point here.  Or is it?)  Being omnipotent, Hermes can jump into other people’s minds and discover and relay what they […]



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