Cannonball Read 18

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Tall person, avid reader and avid, but less successful, gardener. I read a lot of sci fi, fantasy and literary fiction with the occasional smattering of mysteries.

G.D. Giant's Reviews:

New Haven is for (Ghost) Lovers

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Galaxy (Alex) Stern sees dead people. And they see her. And sometimes they can touch her, and it’s as horrible as you can imagine. In fact, the first 20 years of Alex’s life have been pretty horrible. Her father has been MIA her whole life. And her hippie-dippie mother, Mira, is well-meaning but completely ineffective when it comes to keeping Alex safe. Instead, Alex turns to drugs; dropping out of high school and moving in with her child predator of a drug dealer boyfriend. Not […]

Oh No, We Won

Everybody Wants to Rule the Word Except Me by Django Wexler

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We did it, Team! Our Davi is now Dark Lord Davi Morrigan Skulltaker, First of Her Name, Ruler of Wilders, Slayer of Beasts! Unfortunately, the win comes with the mandate to “kill all humans,” which is a problem because Davi is not a genocidal maniac. In this second book of the Dark Lord Davi series, Davi and her friends try to keep those wilders who are genocidal from succeeding in their maniacal goals. This means working with the humans she gave up on in the […]

All Hail Dark Lord Davi

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler

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In How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, we meet one Davi Morrigan; Ms. Skulltaker, if you’re nasty. Davi is stuck in a time loop in a land with no name, where she appears to have been teleported (maybe?) from America (probably). Davi has lived two hundred and eighty-some lives over a thousand years, trying (and failing) to defeat The Dark Lord and his army of wilders. And she is tired of it. Tired of getting killed in all the possible ways someone […]

The Grass Was Hysterical with Dew

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

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Ugh. This is the second book I’ve read in a row now where the characters are terrible people who are impossible to root for. The first was Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke, and now it’s Entitlement, by Rumaan Alam. In Entitlement, we have aged billionaire Asher Jaffe, who creates a foundation to “give away” his fortune before he dies. Unsurprisingly, Jaffe turns out not to be a good person. He spends nearly a million dollars on a birthday present for his wife, but thinks $10k is […]

Giant Ranch on the Prairie

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke, features a tradwife influencer by the name of Natalie Heller Mills. Natalie lives on a charming little 500-acre ranch in Idaho with her cowboy husband, Caleb, and their five kids, with another on the way. On Instagram, in front of millions of followers, a pious, obedient Natalie tends to her flock of children as well as her flock of chickens. Natalie makes sourdough bread, drinks raw milk, from her own cow, of course, and makes family meals with the organic […]

Well, Well, Well

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

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“The Well of Ascension” is the second book in the original Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. And it’s a very good, very solid middle book for a trilogy. We get some answers to earlier mysteries, and we get some new mysteries. We get a light smattering of war as well as more political intrigue. We get some deeper character development, along with additional world building. And we get some more characters, but also lose some more characters. Book 1, “Mistborn,” saw Kelsier and his crew […]



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