Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you’re reading this letter, then I am quite dead, my dear. Dead, but not resting.

Jewel Me Twice by Charish Reid

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Jewel Me Twice is like the old Reese’s Peanut Butter cup tag line. “Two great tastes that taste great together.” It combines two of my favorite things, a heist romance written by one of my auto-buy authors, Charish Reid. I liked Charish Reid from the first page of The Write Escape, and have enjoyed all of her books. I love the characters she writes and the relationships she builds with them. As a side note, I got into a conversation about Charish Reid’s heroines, and […]

A Magical Zoo Adventure

The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. MacLean

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This was a charming cozy romantasy with great diversity and mental health representation. It takes place primarily in a zoo of magical creatures, and it was a pleasure to see MacLean’s creativity as she described these animals. Main character Aila is the phoenix keeper at the zoo and has been trying for years to reboot a breeding program for the endangered Silimalo phoenix. When a neighboring zoo loses their phoenix hatchlings and their mother to poachers, Aila’s zoo is given the opportunity to try a […]

Hester came awake in the night because something had ended.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

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What happens when the weirdest cozy fantasy horror novelist you know of becomes inspired by Bridgerton? A Sorceress Comes to Call is what happens. T. Kingfisher blends the Regency romance of Bridgerton with the Goose Girl fairy tale, a very bad mom, a heaping tablespoon horror, shakes it all up and serves it over a middle aged woman and a teenage girl who are willing to fight an evil who isn’t afraid to kill the innocent. I am 8 books deep in a T. Kingfisher binge. I […]

There was one women who was special…and here she was, carefully instructing him on how to marry someone else.

Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti

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Peter Kent may have just become a Duke, but that doesn’t mean he is guaranteed to get custody of his younger half siblings, especially when the judge making that decision dislikes him for his radical abolitionist position. He decides to ask the smartest person he knows for help, but since she is the unmarried sister of an earl, he gets the earl and his wife involved as well. It becomes a whole family project. Selina Ravenscroft, the smartest person Peter Kent knows, decides he must […]

Nikhil preened. “Are you surprised that Mahreen Kamal can create a fashion icon?”

Just Playing House by Farah Heron

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Happy Canada Day! I read Farah Heron’s Just Playing House while I was laid low by a stomach virus last week. It was lovely and perfect to read about a hot man taking care of the woman he’s had a crush on for years. There are a lot of reasons I like reading romance. Reading this book at this moment was all about wish fulfillment. Someone who wants to care take, yes, I want to read that when I feel terrible. Someone who has a […]

Sometimes you have to really f*ck something up before you can fully appreciate it.

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

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Twyla and Frank are both 53 years old. They are solidly middle aged protagonists who look and act like people in their mid 50s. As a mid 50’s person myself, I loved this. Love, love, loved it! There were also other things I loved, but I really need you to know that a 53 year old woman is wooed by two men, befriends dragons and saves the day. Life for the Tanrian Marshals has quieted down since Hart Ralston solved the drudge problem in The […]



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