Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

They Grow Up So Fast

Longshadow by Olivia Atwater

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The third novel in Atwater’s regency faerie tale trilogy is a sweet and sapphic delight perfect for Pride.  We had first met young Abigail in the novel Half A Soul– she is the adopted daughter of the Lord Sorcier Elias Wilder and his wife Theodora. The workhouse child has now grown into a mostly proper young lady who just wants to use her unusual magic. She sees the perfect opportunity to investigate the sudden deaths of several of her aristocratic peers. The most likely suspect […]

Always The Fireplaces

Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater

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This second novel in Atwater’s Regency Faerie Tales series is just as charming and delightful as the first. We’re heading downstairs in this one but it’s still full of faerie shenanigans! Housemaid Euphemia Reeves has fallen in love with a man far above her humble station. The youngest son of The Family, he is generally pleasant to the servants and is aware enough to take his muddy boots off at the door to save them some work. Obviously this makes him a perfect though improbable […]

Half a soul is better than none

Half A Soul: A Regency Faerie Tale by Olivia Atwater

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When Theodora Ettings was a small child, a faerie came and stole half her soul. Since then, she lives her life like she’s behind a sheet of glass, observing things yet never actually feeling them. When she goes with her cousin Vanessa into London for the new season, her only desire is to fade into the background and not ruin Vanessa’s chance at a match. Unfortunately for her, she attracts the notice of Lord Elias Wilder, the Lord Sorcier of England, who decides she’s a […]

Accidentally Scandalous

Half A Soul by Olivia Atwater

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Was I expecting to read the most spot on description of depression I’ve ever seen in a frothy regency faerie tale? I most certainly was not, but I loved it. Theodora Ettings lost half of her soul as a child to a vengeful fairy who had made a bargain with her mother. She is now drifting through her days with only half the amount of feelings that she should have. Having very little sense of embarrassment or fear is quite the drawback for a young […]

“I did not come here only to dance. I came here only to dance with you. It is quite a different thing.”

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

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This book is marketed as Howl’s Moving Castle meets Bridgerton. I suspect anything by a slightly less known author writing in the Regency era is now sold as X meets Bridgerton. Before the Netflix success of Julia Quinn’s novels, I’m guessing it would be X meets Jane Austen. Obviously, just because it’s set in the Regency era, it isn’t necessarily anything at all like Bridgerton, and that’s absolutely fine, and might, in fact, make more people interested in it. I do see the Howl’s Moving […]

Thank you livresquejess!

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Livresquejess made my night with an email gifting me with three ebooks. I know, I am so basic, I really only read on my tablet these days. I am so excited, just look at these beauties: I have been drooling over The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings since some time late last year when I saw a blurb about it on Twitter (RIP BookTwitter). Last year I saw a review of Half a Soul from KJ Charles and have been wanting it since, […]



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