Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Jen K

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I’ve been around off and on since the first year of CBR, and it and books have been a constant in my life through multiple moves and a major career change. I live with 3 cats, Dany, Jace and Jorah. Fantasy, specific types of sci-fi, historical fiction (especially mysteries) and romance tend to be my go to genres now a days. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Jen K's Quick Questions interview.)

Jen K's Reviews:

They had it coming

When the Wolves Are Silent by C.S. Harris

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I have really enjoyed the last few novels in this series after having a few that didn’t quite work as well for me: it’s nice that we haven’t had too many French espionage connections lately and are just doing murder mysteries. Also, I appreciate that Sebastian St. Cyr hasn’t been too beaten up lately after seeming to get stabbed or shot (at) quite a bit. Sebastian St. Cyr and his sister have a complicated relationship; her husband was a scoundrel and her son definitely isn’t […]

Can’t wait to see how this connects to The Mercy of the Gods

Livesuit by James S.A. Corey

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I never got into the show The Expanse though I was curious from the buzz and the set pictures. I think I watched two episodes and it just didn’t quite get my attention. I tried the first book that the Prime show is based on, and while it was fine, I also wasn’t in a rush to get back to it, and now it’s been so long, I don’t think I could even pick the series up without a reread. And yet, I wanted to […]

Comforting message but … (it’s definitely me, not you, novellas)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

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These were rereads for me but I likely wouldn’t have chosen to revisit this world if they hadn’t been the selection for the Buffering podcast’s book club for April. I like Becky Chambers but prefer her Wayfarers series, and I enjoyed these novellas the first time round, though i preferred the first to the second novella. This time, I read them in one weekend so it’s a bit harder to treat or view them as separate entities. These novellas are perfectly lovely, taking place in […]

Second chance romance, Harlem Renaissance History and Mental Health

Score by Kennedy Ryan

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Kennedy Ryan mentioned in her acknowledgments that she considers this series to be “an entire series that focused on the Harlem Renaissance, or that set women fighting for their significance and their own wellness at the center,” and Score follows in Reel’s footsteps, switching from physical health (lupus) to mental health through a FMC with bipolar disorder. Overall, I enjoyed it and thought it was very well developed but it’s heavy. This m is not the novel to pick up if in the mood for […]

Of Wasps and Other Incryptids

Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire

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While I usually end up staying up too late whenever Seanan McGuire releases a new novel because I need to know what will happen, this novel took me longer to read than any other of her previous books (a whole 3 days so nothing drastic). However, while this one took longer than normal to truly pull me in, I ultimately quite enjoyed it and how McGuire managed to bring together and resolve threads that had been pending for several novels, changing the status quo of […]

Slightly predictable for a reader without making the characters seem obtuse

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

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While I liked the author’s previous duology, The Shepherd King, I didn’t love it. It was one of those where I quite enjoyed the magic system and the plotting but thought the characters needed a little bit more, and that they were missing some fairly obvious clues. I really enjoyed The Knight and the Moth – the main character just felt so much more developed. While I predicted quite a few of the developments that happened later, I also don’t think they were to the […]



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