Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Too Have Succumbed to the Horny Dragon Book

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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Every one hundred years, the royal family of the Sheltered Lands must send one of their bloodline to be the Dragon Lord’s consort.  Sachielle is the latest in a long line.  But she has three secrets: she’s an orphan adopted and trained to seduce the Dragon Lord, her handmaiden and lover, Zanya, is a trained assassin, and finally Sachi is cursed.  Sachi and Zanya have five weeks to kill the Dragon Lord or Sachi will die.  But Ash, the Dragon Lord, is nothing like the […]

Cute fantasy romances that avoid being saccharine

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

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For the last year, my favourite books list has included a mixture of “cozy” and “weird”. It’s hard to get me in the mood for something too traditional; I’m enjoying books with romantic elements but get frustrated by lack of non-relationship plot; and I think nothing will ever live quite up to my euphoric feelings of “wtf” with Harrow the Ninth. A friend recommended Paladin’s Grace to me and I am so grateful for that! I devoured it and the sequel, Paladin’s  and am disappointed Scribd and […]

Lost in the Sea (Bingo – Pandemic)

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

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This is a matter of “good for her, not for me” in that I would say this is a well-written interesting and intriguing book that a) isn’t for me b) wasn’t for me in an audio format c) wasn’t for me at the time I was trying to read it d) maybe some of all three. During June of this Pandemic (when I first started this audiobook, when our fear/exhaustion confusion was but a babe) my mood could rise and fall on a dime, and […]



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