Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

What if you could weaponize memories?

The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy

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Lauren Mansy’s The Memory Thief was the Mocha Girls Read book club read for October. I appreciate how all my book clubs push me to read stories I may not have picked on my own. I love the YA fantasy genre, so I was intrigued by the premise of using memories as power. In this world, the Gifted can take memories and weaponize them by forcing bad memories on other people. There’s an evil tyrant named Madame who enjoys wielding memories for cruel means and […]

Ugh, Teenagers! (No, It’s Not Wuthering Heights)

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To be clear, I am phoning it in so much with these two that I am putting two unrelated contemporary romances in one review, borrowing plot summaries from Amazon, and giving myself the personal challenge of reacting to both as succinctly as possible. I thought I had purchased new adult romances, but it turned out I had purchased young adult romances. It’s apparently a very fine line and I suspect down to tone as much as anything else. The Hazards of Skinny Dipping and Ransom […]

Games We Play

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Yes, this is another read courtesy of Prolixity Julien, and a lovely one at that (you should read her review). Of the college age sports player related romance series I’ve read in the past month, these are among my favorites. I tried to review just the first book, but I couldn’t stop reading long enough, and then I read some other books, and now the series is stuck as a package in my head. I’ve gone through a full cycle on the series from “OMG! […]



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