Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

WHAT in the VICTIM-BLAMEY BULLSHIT

A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne

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WHAT in the VICTIM-BLAMEY BULLSHIT did I JUST READ??? Okay, listen, I’m on board with the consensual monster-fucking. No question. I will read ten bajillion versions of the same basic Beauty & the Beast plot where we literally or metaphorically marry the creepy creature, and then discover that that there is actually a soulmate. Great! Gets me every time! I am even fully down for the variations where the monster love interest has totally non-human anatomy – it requires authorial creativity that I enjoy, and […]

Duskwalker Brides #3

A Soul to Touch by Opal Reyne

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Mayumi is a former member of the Demonslayer Guild. She lives in her family’s cabin in the middle of nowhere so she can safely hunt demons on her own. She slowly comes to realize just how lonely she is. When she was a young child, she was saved from a demon by a Duskwalker. Duskwalkers are monsters who are typically 7 feet tall, covered in fur or feathers, and aren’t terribly intelligent unless they have eaten a lot of humans. Ever since he saved her, […]

Humans are the real monsters

A Soul to Heal by Opal Reyne

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I read the first novel in The Duskwalker Brides series, A Soul to Keep, last year and I absolutely fell in love with it. The author has stated that she was inspired to make this series by the anime/manga The Ancient Magus’s Bride, and since that is one of my all-time favorite series, I knew I had to check these books out. A Soul to Heal is the second volume, and you definitely need to have read the first book to fully understand this one. […]



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