Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Breaking my teeth on the sweetness

The Dream-Maker's Magic by Sharon Shinn

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This book is one in a series, however it can be read as a standalone as this particular series isn’t a set of books that contains one single plot line but rather a set of books containing stories about a group of interconnected people. Unfortunately, while I really enjoyed the previous books in the series this one fell a little flat for me. Sharon Shin writes very comforting novels, they’re nice to fall into when life gets a little too stressful. This one was just a little too easy, if that makes sense, it was lacking a sense of tension […]

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8/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:74 |

Patience Didn’t Save Me From This Book

The Patient Wolf by Karen Hodges Miller

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Nope. Nope. Nopenopenopenopenopenope. I can’t think of a better way to tell you all about this book. It’s just… bad. And not entertaining bad, or annoyingly bad, or even stupidly misogynistic bad. It’s just… bad. The characters are trite. The writing is bland and full of telling not showing. The plot is rote and any ‘surprises’ are telegraphed from page one. The book also contains one of my pet peeves in novels about shape shifting humans where human physiology is assumed to be the same as animal physiology.  At least it was a fast read. The plot is very basic. […]

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8/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:73 |

Gonna Leave This in The Desert

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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I think before I start this review I need to begin with two disclaimers. The first, I’m not a fan of Stephen King. I’ve read a couple of his books and they just doesn’t wow me. I don’t hate his books, but I don’t really read them unless they’re one of the few choices in some beach rental and I’ve forgotten any other reading material. To give you an idea, I stopped reading Salem’s Lot about halfway through because I got bored and didn’t feel like slogging through the resto of the book to get to the plot. My other […]

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8/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:72 |

Satisfying Conclusion to a Comfort Read

A Little Knowledge and All Good Things by Emma Newman

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These two books are the concluding books of Emma Newman’s Split World series. I read All Good Things before A Little Knowledge because I mistakenly thought that I’d already read the fourth book. Oops. I like this series a lot, but the fact that I could pick up All Good Things and not be lost at all kind of highlights one of the issues I have with it, which is that it is needlessly drawn out. The side stories that happened in A Little Knowledge were fun but not necessary at all for the final plot. I feel like this […]

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8/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:71 |

A Fly By Any Other Name

Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge

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Fly by Night is Frances Hardinge’s first novel, but the third or fourth novel of hers that I’ve read. I liked it, and I definitely think that it’s one of the better middle grade novels out there, however it’s not my favorite of her books. Twelve year old Mosca, who is orphaned, lives with her uncle and is smarter than most of the people in her little town. Her best friend is the goose Saracen, because outcasts stick together. When the smooth talking con-man Eponymous Clent comes to her little village, she finds herself drawn to his big words and […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:69 |

It’s not the book, it’s me

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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For the past couple of years I’ve been hearing about how the Thursday Next series is a great series of books and everything I’ve heard about it has definitely made me think that the series would be a great read. So I put it on my list of books to check out, and when this book came up as the alt for the Vaginal Fantasy July read I thought it would be the perfect time to actually read it (especially because the main book this month cause physical revulsion just from reading the description and from the discussion on the […]

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7/31/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:68 |

My Fair Actress

Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

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I initially gave this book four stars, however upon reflection I don’ think it’s quite a four star read and I downgraded it to three stars, so we’ll say a solid three and a half stars. This book is set in the same world as Act Like It, which I read last year and loved. This book isn’t as good and features a trope that I strongly dislike, even if that trope is fairly well handled and disguised it still bothers me. However, there were moments that I laughed out loud despite the fact that I was flying while reading […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:67 |

Don’t Promote Your Troubles Beyond Your Rank

Penric's Mission and Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Continuing the adventures of Penric, the demon hosting priest of Lois McMaster Bujold’s World of the Five Gods, we have two more novellas: Penric’s Mission and Mira’s Last Dance. These are two very closely related stories, so much so that if felt more like reading on novel then reading two novellas. I enjoy these little stories quite a bit, so realizing that I had two unread stories to read was a treat. In Penric’s Mission, Penric is sent to spy on some duke from some place (I don’t really keep track of the where and what in this world, I […]

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7/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:66 |

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