Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The final Edge book.

Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4) by Ilona Andrews

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Finally buckling down to write this review. I finished the book two and a half months ago, so it’s not going to be my best. Steel’s Edge is the last book in The Edge series, a fantasy/romance set of books that focus on the Edge, a place on the border between our reality (which they call the Broken) and a magical world (called the Weird). Our hero is Richard Mar, the brother of Kaldar from book three. Richard is on a self-imposed quest to wipe […]

A space rebel romance

Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet

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As a big fan of Amanda Bouchet’s Kingmaker Chronicles, I was pumped for her new book Nightchaser. This is the first book in her new sci-fi space series, which centers on Tess Bailey. She is a space captain with a troubled past who has become a sort of Robin Hood in space. She and her crew steal vaccines and supplies to give to children in need. At the start of the book, we find her on the run with a stolen lab. The Dark Watch […]

Wonderful Follow Up to Sorry Not Sorry

It's Not You It's Him by Sophie Ranald

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Please note that I received this book via NetGally for free. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be published on June 18, 2019.  This was hands down one of my favorite reads this year. I already read “Sorry Not Sorry” and was fretting about what would come next for Tansy. Ranald does such a great job of showing Tansy during her school years, present day, and in select moments during her relationship with her ex Renzo. Ranald also does a […]

Should Have Stuck with One POV; Also the Book Was Pretty Grim

Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum

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I really wish I had liked this one more. Too bad that it was just full of cliches and one main character (Noah) I disliked from beginning to end. I thought Abbi was fine, but she honestly needed a life since she seemed wholly dependent on her ex-best friend Cat to give her a social life. And I also kind of hated that Abbi was fine with forgiving Noah and his whole blackmail thing, but didn’t want to try to make up with Cat. I […]

You can’t stop the tide

Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

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Beatriz Williams is one of my summer read go-tos. For some reason, I never got around to this book last summer when it came out. My mother passed her copy to me and it has been sitting on my non-library book TBR pile ever since. I finally cracked it open and it did not disappoint. Most of Williams’ books offer a little bit of mystery and a whole lot of star crossed loving. I’m more than fine with that. Her tendency to set things in […]

A unique approach to a romance plot that really works

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

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This is a slow burn love story, the kind that takes eight years to finally come together, the kind that has both main characters taking years to realize that the “casual” thing they started when they were teens is, in fact, the most important relationship in their lives. Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov meet in December 2008, when they are both 17, at the world junior hockey tournament. They’re both the best players on their respective teams, sure to be drafted by the NHL that […]



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