Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“If I die, you can always make another me.”

Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) by Edward Ashton

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What a way to start the year—existential crises and smart-assery. Mickey7, aka Mickey Barnes, is our guy. He’s an Expendable on a mission to establish a beachhead colony on a far-flung world. Expendables are just that—they are the people sent on suicide missions, given dangerous tasks, experimented upon medically to develop vaccines and treatments for whatever exciting new ailments await colonists on their new planet. He’s the guy who will die for you, only to have a new copy of himself ready to go 24-hours […]

Time loops that feel like fairyland.

The Last Hour at the End of the World (The Echo Archive, #1) by Melissa Caruso

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Thanks to NetGalley, Hachette Audio, and Orbit for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Firstly, this is way more fantasy than it is sci-fi, for those who want the proper expectations. There are time loops and parallel universes, but they function on what feels like magic much more than science. And this is a book with a fantasy heart. Feeling blah right now, so here’s the (truncated) blurb: Kembral Thorne is spending a few hours away from her newborn . . […]

Samantha Allen brings her delightfully weird mind to romance.

Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet by Samantha Allen

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Thanks to NetGalley, RBmedia, and Recorded Books for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. If you too are a fan of Samantha Allen’s previous lesbian Sasquatch-related work, well, I actually have no idea if you will like this or not. It’s completely different. Instead of horror, we’ve got romance, instead of reality TV satire, we’ve got an aging movie star coming out of the closet (while being a ghost). And the “sex” in this . . . you’ve just got to […]

“Never f*** anyone you would be upset having to kill, that’s my new motto.”

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) by Django Wexler

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Firstly, you’re either going to like the tone and style this is written in, or you’re going to bounce right off it. I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about how vulgar and horny Davi is, and blaming it on a man writing a woman. Having read from this author before and seen how he can write women, and also, the other women in this book, I’m gonna vote no on that one. Women can be horny and vulgar! You might not like that, and […]

Thank you, BlackRaven!

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I came home last night after a pretty yucky day to a lovely surprise from what I presume is BlackRaven’s local bookstore. She sent me a Julie Andrews novel I’ve been wanting to read forever (Mandy is one of my all-time favorite children’s books), and a book that I put on my TBR because of CBR! If You Can’t Take the Heat by Geraldine DeRuiter. Seems like a great time for that one, TBH. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get to these, […]

“This killer was just herself turned inside out. Her fatal inversion.”

Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This is a slow, quiet, dark book. Don’t go in expecting anything in your face. It actually took me a bit to become emotionally into, but this turned out to be worth the wait. I just had to get in the right headspace. That said, it does feel like something is lacking for me, that ineffable thing, that would make this a five star read. I’m not sure […]



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