Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Devastatingly beautiful. I cried, not because it was necessarily sad but due to the amount of emotion.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

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V.E. (Victoria) Schwab was introduced to me by my favorite bookstore, Mysterious Galaxy and it was love at first read.  By pre-ordering the The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, I was able to get a personalized book plate and used my birthday present book embosser to further claim the book.  Those actions decrease the re-sale value of a book but this is one I won’t be giving up! The simplest explanation of the plot is it is a Faustian deal between Adeline LaRue and a god-like, […]

Who wouldn’t want to be romanced in a magical tea shop in Paris?

Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim

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One day, while scrolling through Instagram, a book post from Mysterious Galaxy caught my eye.  The title instantly grabbed me, Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop.  Yes, please!  This was my second comfort read to help me through the US election and it definitely helped. Vanessa Yu is a fourth generation Chinese American young woman from an extraordinary family.  About once per generation a Yu is born with the gift of prophecy.  At the tender age of three Vanessa had her first prediction and life was forever […]

Better than the Cupid TV Show

Beaus and Arrows by Rashida T. Williams

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My first Federal Government job was working at the National Cancer Institute as an administrator. I learned a lot, but the job wasn’t for me and I got let go at the end of the probation year. My fellow hire was a girl named Rashida. We became fast friends and even though the job didn’t work out we stayed in touch over the years. Rashida is a delightful ray of sunshine, so when I found out on Facebook she got a book publishing deal, I […]

Parts of two series

Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren

Dirty Rowdy Thing by Christina Lauren

Dark Wild Nights by Christina Lauren

Skin by Dale Mayer

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  The Wild Seasons series by Christina Lauren is a 4-book series. I’m reviewing the first three, and won’t likely be reading on to the fourth. This in no way means that the first three aren’t great. Sweet Filthy Boy is the first in the series. Three childhood friends have just graduated college and take a weekend in Las Vegas to celebrate. Mia is the main protagonist of this installment. She has a distant relationship with her parents and is dreading moving to Boston in […]

A Dinétah monster killer

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

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I was familiar with Rebecca Roanhorse from Twitter and her articles on Tor.com, so definitely excited for Trail of Lightning‘s release last year. I guess I wasn’t the only one because it was sold out at The Ripped Bodice when I went to buy it! Always a good sign and her novel did not disappoint. Trail of Lightning is the first entry in the series: The Sixth World. After a climate apocalypse that drowns most of the world, several nasty things that go bump in the […]

The first of two amazing books I read to end the year. (I want to put them both on my end of year best!)

Band Sinister by K.J. Charles

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“This, then, was a hellfire club: a debating society for alarming ideas.” What a delightful way to end the year. I always like K.J. Charles’s books, but this one just pushed every single one of my buttons. It’s an homage to Georgette Heyer, and a romance, but I’ve not read anything quite like it before. Guy Frisby and his sister Amanda are secluded from society in their quiet country home. An old scandal involving their mother and their neighbor besmirched their names and ruined Amanda’s […]



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