Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Empathy had saved more worlds by far.

Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Lords of Uncreation is one of my most anticipated books of the year. Adrian Tchaikovsky is a master and The Final Architecture series is such a joy to read. And when I say it’s a joy to read, I do not mean it is fluffy or happy. It is not. But the writing is immersive and gripping and the smallest detail is so well considered. Tchaikovsky pulls it all together and gives us as happy an ending as we could expect. We open with Andecka […]

The 1813 Wallflower Club

How to Woo a Wallflower by Virginia Heath

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Finally making her debut after a long recovery from a horse-riding accident, Hattie is relegated to the wallflower chairs – but at least her brother’s rakish best friend, Jasper, is there to keep her company. This might have been the oldest remnant on my NetGalley shelf that I’ve yet swept off – while I like this genre and this author, I never seemed to get into the mood for it. I had the idea that this would be a straightforward Regency romance, and the book […]

Jana belted out the lyrics with feeling, emotion, and, more than anything else, joy. She let go of all her inhibitions, didn’t think at all about how terrible she sounded or what the aunties and uncles were thinking right now.

Jana Goes Wild by Farah Heron

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I started Jana Goes Wild and then decided I needed to go back and read Kamila Knows Best, a book I own, but hadn’t read. Reading the two back to back was a great decision. Kamila Knows Best is a retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma, with Jana and Anil in the Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill roles. Jana Goes Wild, set some 5 years later, is the resolution of their story. If you haven’t read Kamila yet, you don’t absolutely need to, but you should […]

Harper, have you considered… therapy?

Harper and the Single Dad by Amy Andrews

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After an abrupt breakup with Yarran, Harper fled to London and immersed herself in her career as a surgeon. When she returns to Sydney twelve years later, it almost feels like things between her and Yarran haven’t changed at all – except that Yarran has been married, widowed, and had a young son in that time. I pick up Harlequin romances to read when I am in the mood for a simple, comforting romance, and this book did not fail me in that regard. A […]

But life is long and strange and full of things that will make you happy.

Pas de Don't by Chloe Angyal

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Chloe Angyal’s debut romance, Pas de Don’t, is fantastic. The characters and the plot are grown up and the romance is tender (and steamy).  Angyal uses her background in dance to ground her romance between professional dancers in the physical joy of being a dancer, without glamorizing (or fetishizing) all the things beyond art that make ballet a world apart. I haven’t read Angyal’s non-fiction book, Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers is Saving Ballet From Itself, but Pas de Don’t is the […]

Those brown eyes full of silver moonlight focused and her gaze found his as he took her into a dance for two instead of one.

Wings Once Cursed and Bound by Piper J Drake

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I liked this a lot. Wings Once Cursed and Bound is an intriguing start to a paranormal romance series. It is getting marketed as “for fans of Sarah J Maas and Jennifer Armentrout,” which I think is setting up assumptions about the book that won’t hold up. It is a fantasy romance, but it’s set in an alternate universe Seattle, not a fantasy world. Peeraphan, called Punch by her friends, is at a dance rehearsal when she is offered a gorgeous pair of red shoes. She is […]



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