Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ridiculously Fun

Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

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Charlie, Max, and Stevie share a father whose constantly screwing them over and putting them in danger.  So maybe it’s not so surprising that Charlie ends up naked and being chased by gunmen on Berg Dunn’s balcony.  The bear shifter offers her a shirt and gun, and she’s gone.  When their paths cross again, Charlie’s on a mission to keep her sisters safe, and protection specialist Berg is more than happy to help, even if he doesn’t exactly know what he’s getting himself into, and […]

New York City is about to be invaded by a lot of honey badgers.

Born to be Badger by Shelly Laurenston

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Welcome to the 5th installment in Shelly Laurenston’s Honey Badger Chronicles, Born to be Badger. It has everything and everyone you loved from the first four books including the McKilligan sisters, Max’s teammates, violence, anti social behavior, inter species conflicts, and plot so bonkers it can’t be explained. This one also has a small child and puppies. Actually, the plot isn’t so bonkers it can’t be explained, but there is a lot of action as the plot unfolds. The plot is basically – someone is tying […]

Honey Badger Don’t Care

Breaking Badger by Shelly Laurenston

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Disclaimer! This was an ARC from Netgalley. It has in no way influenced my review.   This is the fourth book in an ongoing series. While this book works on its own, it will be much more enjoyable if you’ve read the first three books in the Honey Badger Chronicles, which start with Hot and Badgered. While the first three books in the Honey Badger Chronicles introduce us to the three MacKilligan sisters Charlie, Stevie, and Max who have different mothers but the same utterly […]

This was their time to be really f’ing weird.

Breaking Badger by Shelly Laurenston

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Shelly Laurenston’s Honey Badger Chronicles have joined Martha Wells’ the Murderbot Diaries and Becky Chamber’s Wayfarers series as the books I shove in everyone’s faces given the slightest opening. Are they even romances anymore? I don’t know. Who cares? They have transcended genre and reason and exist on their own plane. There are always 30 something characters and 56 plots going on in a Honey Badger book and it feels a bit like the Motown Wall of Sound. Either you can’t take the confusion or […]

A Bananapants Guide to Rescuing Cats

Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston

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I adored Shelly Laurenston’s Hot and Badgered when I read it last year. The second book, In a Badger Way was fine, but I found it more work and less charming. Badger to the Bone is a delightful return to bananapants. The Honey Badgers Chronicles would make an awesome tv series. It could go for years. The world is diverse with both a small town feel and an international scope. Max MacKilligan has had my heart since she pulled a rocket-propelled grenade launcher out of her trunk […]

A small town paranormal romance reminiscent of Northern Exposure

How to Date Your Dragon (Mystic Bayou #1) by Molly Harper

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Molly Harper’s paranormal romance series kicks off with How to Date Your Dragon. I previously read a novella from this universe for CBR11 called Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues. The world was hilarious and the story didn’t skimp on the heat. I meant to go back to the beginning last year, but the ‘Rona made me totally forget about it. Mystic Bayou, Louisiana is a small town where humans and magical beings coexist in this unique harmony. Jillian works for a secret organization that […]



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