Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

excellent middle novel in an excellent series

The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles

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Yep I just RAN to find this one after reading the prior book, and boy am I glad that I did. Realizing maybe I didn’t read these as quickly because I really dislike the way that Kim is pictured on the covers–long sideburns and black lipstick, it looks like to me??? Wait is that Maisie and Phoebe in the background!!!! After the first novel, Will finds himself once against at odds with trying to figure out that weirdo Kim. They’ve hooked up a couple of […]

run, do not walk, and read these

Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles

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Narfna has stolen my first line for this review, which is: I love everything about this. Seeing as how I’m 90% certain I put this on hold because of her recommendation, I suppose it’s only fair. So, yes. This was everything. I had this outstanding on my Kindle for ages, constantly pushing it off because I didn’t think I was in the mood for whatever it was. I think I had this vibe of like, cozy mystery x aristocrats, and considering that cozy mystery is […]

Be (So) Over Him

I'm So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson

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While I like fake relationship, and I reallly like “we broke up but have worked on our issues and are not back together because there was never another for us,” there’s something about the way it all came together which fell a bit short of the mark. I did the thing which I know I shouldn’t do and tried to skim some reviews to see if someone managed to nail the issue I had in their review, and of course there’s a brilliant reviewer who […]

in the same vein, but the opposite of a reality cooking tv show

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

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I liked this book, and all the things it was and wasn’t. Was: a sapphic, small town, reunited after many years but not in a “we used to date and I have alwayssssssss loooooooooovvvedddddddd youuuuuuuuu I haveeee alwayssss loved you I have etc” type of way. Multiple female friends! Satisfying takedown you know is coming because this is fiction, not real life, and rich people haven’t stacked the deck everywhere. Wasn’t: a barrel of baggage (not a thing I want! ymmv!)–there’s a frisson of it, […]

I liked this more as an exercise in boundary pushing for me

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

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Hmm unfortunately I think this novel is better as very enjoyable lesson in non-binary pronoun usage than a non-caveat-ed romance novel. But that is for me, because aside from queer rep (which we always love to see! More of it! Everywhere! All the time!) there’s a lot of tropes here that I don’t particularly enjoy. I also think I’m not very into the trope of cooking shows as backdrop to romance. Or cooking as a backdrop to romance, especially when both players are in the […]

My new favorite genre

Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall

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I realize there’s an entire subgenre of queer m/m-focus literature set in Ye Olde Times that has a soupçon of reality (like, there have always been queer people but there’s no Edwardian timeline in which they were openly walking about and getting married), some very specific tropes for characters (usually, seemingly-himbo + someone), and mile a minute sort of pity pitter patter pithy laugh lines. I think seemingly-himbo (the shimbo, we will call him) is probably my favorite foil to the more immediately interesting second […]



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