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I've been doing this since 2015, and though I'm not going to read a hundred books a year, I plan on doing this for the foreseeable future. I also maintain the Cannonball Read database, and make infrequent updates on our reading habits.

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Call to Arms by Joshua Dalzelle

Counterstrike by Joshua Dalzelle

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I’ve tried reading romance a couple times, and was pleasantly surprised by the ones I’ve actually tried. But I avoided them for years because they all seemed to follow the same basic plot, with assembly line characters and common tropes throughout. Well, I can’t use those things as excuses any longer. This book – and, indeed, just about every military sci-fi series I’ve read – has assembly line characters, common tropes, and very similar, predictable plots. Despite all of that, I generally enjoyed this book. […]

I feel better.

Warship by Joshua Dalzelle

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It’s the 25th century, and humanity has reached the stars (and colonized them). They haven’t found aliens, however, and they also haven’t fought a war in over two hundred years. Everyone is simply too spread out, and the resources are far too plentiful. So the military has become complacent, and their ships are outdated. Even the old ships were built a hundred and fifty years after they were necessary. The technology used to build them is tightly controlled by a corporation, and the military isn’t […]

I’ve made a bad decision, but I’m too stubborn to change my mind: The Wheel of Time (Part V)

The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan

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I hated this book. There was nothing in here that was offensive, like using rape as comic relief in A Crown of Swords. But the key plot points in here could’ve easily been interwoven into the last book. In fact, doing so (and trimming quite a bit of the fat) would’ve improved the story considerably. A great deal of this book does absolutely nothing to develop the characters or move the plot forward in any way. If anything, there is a needless addition of numerous […]

Trigger warning for rape: The Wheel of Time (Part IV)

A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan

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I’ve written 8,600 words in reviewing the first six books in this series. And they can basically be boiled down to, “the gender dynamics here suck, the characterization is pretty awful at times, and the world building is incredibly and gratuitously detailed, but this series serves as a vital bridge between the endless Tolkien rehashing and the maturation of the fantasy genre that followed in its wake. There are many things here to admire – but I kind of hate these books. Anyway, here’s the […]

Take your medicine, boy: The Wheel of Time (Part III)

The Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

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I low-key started to hate this series in the last book. I think I actually hate it now. It took me three weeks to get through this book. I think I read the previous book, The Fires of Heaven, in about four days. If you haven’t read my previous reviews of this series, I’ll start off by saying there is an attempt at an interesting sex dynamic here. The magic system is split into the “male half” (saidin) and the “female half” (saidar). This could […]



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