Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

One of my favorite books I read in 2019.

Think of England by K.J. Charles

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I loved this! It hit all my K.J. Charles sweet spots: historically accurate time period indulgence; unique main characters with great chemistry; a plot that not only holds my attention, but actually makes me look forward to it; that thing she does all the time but so casually, where she takes a time period and shows that it wasn’t just full of straight white people; and of course, all that character culmination results in good sex scenes that are not only sexy, but also illuminate […]

Didn’t really work for me, but will give the author a couple more tries. Yes, Malin and Mrs. J, I will be reading #5 next :)

The Perils of Pleasure (Pennyroyal Green, #1) by Julie Anne Long

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This just never really clicked for me. I’m going to try a couple more books by this author and see how it goes, though. I had a good enough time with it, but I never really connected with the characters outside of a handful of moments, and I didn’t think the main couple really connected with each other, either. I also felt the central premise was kind of wasted. It started out pretty great. I like the concept of the feuding families being the center […]

Victorian fantasy horror mystery romance. PSA: Currently $0.99 on Kindle.

The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1) by K.J. Charles

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Really liked this! You can barely tell that this was her first book. It was pretty short, and for the most part that was fine, but there were parts where she sums up conversations instead of showing them, where I wanted her to actually show them. There’s a significant story that Crane tells Stephen about how he got his tattoos, and we don’t get to hear it at all! She also glossed over their initial bonding and friendship. But other than that, this was actually […]

Come for the food, stay for the food.

The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date, #3) by Jasmine Guillory

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I should have kept track of how many pizzas were consumed in this book. (Do not read this, or really any of Jasmine Guillory’s books, if you are hungry.) This book was the perfect choice for a lazy Saturday afternoon. Theo and Maddie have a best friend in common (Alexa from Guillory’s first book, The Wedding Date) but have disliked each other from their first meeting. Maddie thinks Theo is a pompous, boring know-it-all who is dismissive of her job, and Theo thinks Maddie is […]

“I am a museum of art but you had your eyes shut”

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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Official book description: milk and honey is a collection of poetry about love loss trauma abuse healing and femininity it is split into four chapters each chapter serves a different purpose deals with a different pain heals a different heartache milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in the life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look Poetry is just one of those genres I don’t really read, at […]

Hungry like the wolf

Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

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Official book description: Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road. The little boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the little boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the little boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end […]



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