Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

In which the cute cooking manga takes a depressing turn

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 5 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 6 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

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Last year my seven year old got into a cute cooking manga called Kitchen Princess.  I read and reviewed book one for Cannonball Read 10 but then only skimmed through the second through fourth books.  After reading volumes five and six my daughter somberly told me that a character had died and requested that I read them too.  This was an unexpected turn for a shojo manga.  The first four volumes contained a beginning love triangle between female protagonist Najika Kazami and brothers Daichi and Sora […]

Bloodstains, Ballgowns, Trashing a Hotel Room

The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

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A friend of mine, whenever she encounters a problem, reminds herself of the Scale of Aleppo, wherein she compares her misfortunes to those of the people trapped in the vicious civil war in Syria. Husband running late? Barely a one on the Scale of Aleppo. Boss being an asshole? A three, at most. It’s an admirable strategy. It’s also something which, I feel, it would behoove the protagonists of The Royal We to try. Twenty year old Rebecca Porter, on a gap year from studying […]

Well, I got to 52!

P.S. I love you by Cecilia Ahern

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Ahern wrote this book when she was 21. The premise is clever, a bitter-sweet gimmick where Holly’s husband dies, but he leaves her a series of letters to help her cope in the first year without him. Each letter has a surprise or a challenge and always ends with “P.S. I love you.” “Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. ” The book however does not quite work. Writing about the grief and pain of losing someone […]

My First Hate Post

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Save Ugh, this book was gross. It’s just so mean and hateful, like a rabid squirrel. The outside may seem cheerful and harmless, but get to know it and it’ll bite you. It’s the story of a girl named Anna who is fat. Being fat is the worst thing ever, obviously. After her parents divorce, Anna moves away from her home in Ohio to New York. She gets a job with a caterer, who she refers to as MFG (My Fairy Godmother), who helps her […]

Shaken and Stirred

Pent Up by Damon Suede

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NOTE: WE RETRACT ALL GUSHING THAT TAKES PLACE IN THIS REVIEW. THE AUTHOR HAS REVEALED HIMSELF TO BE A GASLIGHTING DICK DURING THE RWA MELTDOWN OF DECEMBER 2019. Patty: Remember when we read that witch-hunter/slayer/chakra book and we bitched about how it was basically a mish-mash of every PNR trope ever troped? You would think this would be like that but no. I mean, there is m/m romance, GFY, alcoholism, a social class divide, SEC regulations, paranoia, kidnapping, family dysfunction and yet somehow, it all […]

Historical Romance from in 1997, a Literally Historical Novel

With this Ring by Carla Kelly

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Here I am with a review of a novel published in 1997, but a good romance remains so and is always worth a look. eBooks are a boon to people looking for stories they would otherwise be unable to get their hands on. With This Ring was recommended by a friend and while it didn’t completely work for me, overall I have found all of Kelly’s Regency romances worth a read, if only for her faith in humanity and a writing style which makes the […]



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