Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A cray-sea life

You Brought Me The Ocean by Alex Sanchez

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You Brought Me The Ocean. Seems simple enough of a title. The story that Alex Sanchez created is not as simple as that. This is a fun book about love and being true to yourself. Two characters quickly find love with each other, but their small community and local high school classmate will challenge that. Also, friends will come into question, what is family, and what are the markings on one of the young teen. Jake Hyde is drawn to the ocean, but his mother’s […]

Greek Honeymoon

The Child of Judas by Violet Winspear

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Fenny is in love with her cousin’s fiancé, but he’s barely ever noticed her. Yet when Penela leaves him at the altar, Fenny steps in, tricking him by pretending to be her cousin at the wedding- and Lion is quite unhappy when he finds out, after they are already wed. This was a pretty crazysauce premise. Fenny has a bad case of coup de foudre and seizes the chance to become Lion’s wife, even though she knows how bad it is to trick him like […]

Esteban and Tristan went into this nightmare and came out with more than they bargained for

The Nightmare Brigade #1: The Case of the Girl from Deja Vu by Frank Thillez

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I first found  The Nightmare Brigade #1: The Case of the Girl from Deja Vu by Frank Thillez, and illustrated by Yomgui Dumont as a preview e-reader. I was so in love with the start that I emailed the address at the bottom of the link sent to tell them! A few months later, chapters one and two were available in a full e-reader. (And once again, I recommend signing up for the newsletter from Papercutz if you and/or a child in your life likes […]

Siblings to die for

The Blood Between Us by Z Brewer

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Had I been myself as a teenager (and I was) this book would have been a huge hit. The Blood Between Us is a thriller filled with distrust, explosions, and family secrets. Until you get to the end. And this was when my adult-self kicked in and the teenager who forgave a lot to just enjoy the story, came into play. The buildup was strong, but slow. All evidence points to an obvious ending (but honestly would be a satisfying one). That is, until the […]

Romeo and Juliet tackle social issues

The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera

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The Education of Margot Sanchez came up in at a time when I was looking for something different, not too “light”, but not too “heavy” either. And the book Lilliam Rivera presented was a story of coming of age when your world is not as perfect as it might seem. There is a lot to this story to make it a familiar story. We have the “trying to fit in with the cool crowd” plot line. We have the “abandoning old friends who don’t fit […]

a #cannonbookclub favorite RETURNS!

It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

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Last year, during our The Future is Queer book club event, we were introduced to the sweet and complicated world of Farah Naz Rishi with her debut novel, I Hope You Get This Message. She returns next week with a decidedly different but still warmly familiar follow up: It All Comes Back to You. IHYGTM sits firmly on the edge of an apocalypse; aliens have made contact with Earth and time is quickly slipping away. It All Comes Back to You is firmly planted in another […]



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