Cannonball Read 11

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Aquillia

Erstwhile PhD in Ancient History. Wannabe fantasy writer. Likes ancient coins, imaginary kingdoms, and failed emperors.

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I waited to make this my first CBR11 review. It was worth the wait.

The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth

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This book was the one Christmas present I asked for. I’d been dying to read it for ages because (full disclosure) I ‘know’ the author from online from way back when we were both teenagers, and I wanted to buy it to support her (and also because I couldn’t get it through my local library). Well, through the vagaries of online shopping, it only just came into my hands. Even though I live in Europe, my husband had gone for the American edition and I’m so glad he did. The cover is lovely and the edges are rough-cut, so it’s […]

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1/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Post-Cannonball roundup

The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

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I actually read more books this year than I have since I can remember. I just don’t have the energy to review them all for various reasons. Last year I did a round-up of all the books I didn’t properly review, and I’d like to do the same now (I’m only counting this review as 1 book read, because even though it’s lots of books, it’s not a full review for each and there’s no overarching theme like I usually do in my multi-book reviews). Some of these I’ve read over Christmas break and was tempted to save them for […]

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12/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

In the nick of time, my first ever CANNONBALL!

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

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My first ever Cannonball! I’m super proud of this, as I’ve been doing CBR for a few years (off and on) and have never managed more than a half-Cannonball before. I’m going to try to achieve this goal again next year. Now on to my final proper review of the year. Natasha Pulley’s The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a lovely, lovely book. It sits at the crossover between historical fiction and fantasy, but just barely steps over the line into the fantastical. It is probably not fantastical enough to satisfy a fantasy geek, but it is apparently enough to […]

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12/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Fast paced fantasy with a great premise

Shades of Magic series (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light) by V.E. Schwab

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I’ve been waiting to write this review for a while, partly because I wanted to review the Shades of Magic Trilogy together and I’ve only just read the third one. (And partly because I’m better at reading than writing reviews…) This series was my introduction to V. E. Schwab, although I’d encountered mentions of the trilogy for a while now in the fantasy world. Part of the reason I finally read them was my reading challenge for the first half of the year: to read more fantasy written by women. (In fact, I only read books written by women for […]

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12/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

Terry Pratchett Roundup!

Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

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I’ve been reading more Terry Pratchetts as the days have gotten colder and darker (Denmark is so, SO dark.) They always make me chuckle; his wit is brilliant. The little puns (“gastro-gnome”) and subversions of expectation are perfect, and I really adore the way no character is above being made fun of. To my mind, the Watch books exemplify these brilliant talents best. That might be because I’ve read most of them, but I also think it’s that the combination of characters is just done so well. Vimes is always great, but I actually prefer all the characters around him […]

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12/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

My favourite book this year

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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Before this week, if you had told me that one of my favourite fantasy books I’ve ever read would be a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin of all things, I would have laughed in your face. But that is one way to describe Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, her follow-up to Uprooted (which was far and away one of my favourite books from a few years ago). Tonally, Spinning Silver is similar to Uprooted. Both feature a non-traditional European fantasy world, in that the Polish grounding for Uprooted and the Slavic folklore for Spinning Silver aren’t as common as Vikings or Regency or knights in armor. Both feature the kind of […]

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12/14/2018 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

Review roundup! Female-centric thillers

Into the Water; The Lying Game; The Good Daughter; After Anna; Then She Was Gone; Dark Places by Paula Hawkins; Ruth Ware; Karin Slaughter; Alex Lake; Lisa Jewell; Gillian Flynn

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I badly need to catch up with writing reviews, but don’t really have the inclination to write long and individual reviews for books that were mostly ‘meh’. I sometimes pick up thrillers when I need a break from fantasy, and this review covers several that I’ve read since the early summer, in order that I read them. In some cases I have to cast my mind back rather a long way–and some definitely made an impression more than others. Most of these I read pretty quickly and moved on just as quickly. I’ve refreshed my memory when needed with Wikipedia […]

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12/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Compelling mystery with a supernatural twist

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (AKA The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle) by Stuart Turton

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Now that Bingo is over, I’m getting around to reviewing all the books I read this summer and autumn that didn’t fit into Bingo Squares. One of my favourites–an unexpected favourite–was The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (or, as I believe it is called in the US, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle). When I found the link on Amazon, it was rated #1 for science fiction. I don’t think that’s an apt comparison, however, because part of the charm of this book is that it doesn’t fit into genre categories. At best, it’s a historical fiction murder mystery set with […]

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12/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:36 |


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