Cannonball Read 9

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Scalzi’s new space opera: Please, sir, I want some more?

The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) by John Scalzi

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It’s been almost two years since The End of All Things was published, and I’ve been jonesing for some new Scalzi. Unfortunately, all The Collapsing Empire has really done is make me want more. It’s like how when you bake a fresh batch of cookies and you eat one hot from the oven, how that one cookie does nothing to curb your craving for cookies. All it makes you want to do is shove five more cookies down your gullet. (Your potentially upset tummy is irrelevant for the purposes of this metaphor.) All that is to say, yes, Mr. Scalzi, […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

Love these girls. Love this series.

Giant Days, Vol. 4 (Giant Days, #4) by John Allison

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“Do you need to go somewhere and repeatedly fail the Bechdel test?” “Yes I do.” After a little bit of a weird slump with Vol. 3, I am back in love with this series. Susan is fresh off her break-up with McGraw (she sees moustaches everywhere!), and tries to fill the hole with various activities and other men, and nothing is working. Esther has vowed not to come back to school after the Easter holidays after messing everything up all year and in general being a hot sexy mess. And Daisy is . . . still Daisy. They are friends, […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

Five novellas smooshed together. Still not sure about this author or this series.

Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass #0.1-0.5) by Sarah J. Maas

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The Assassin’s Blade is a compilation of five interrelated novellas that take place about a year before the first book in this series, Throne of Glass. Each one can be read separately, but work best together, showing how the infamous assassin Celaena Sardothien went from being rich, spoiled and deadly, to being a slave in the salt mines of Endovier. These five novellas go a long way towards rectifying one of the main complaints I had with that first book, namely that we were shown almost no proof of Celaena’s supposed assassin talents. Maas kept telling us how badass and […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

Yet another glowing review for this gem of a book.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) by Becky Chambers

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I was going to give this four stars because I really enjoyed myself while reading it, but I didn’t get THAT FEELING, you know? But then I had this one thought afterwards that completely reshaped my perspective about the whole book and now I have to give it five stars. But first some context. This has been an absurdly well-reviewed book here at CBR (and everywhere else), and it pretty much came out of nowhere. It has been compared frequently to both Star Trek (because of its optimistic vision of humanity’s future) and Firefly (because of the ragtag, underdog nature of […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

Too long, too slow, and Fitz is a butt.

Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3) by Robin Hobb

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Things I did not expect: 1. That koalas, cute though they may be, are actually incredibly gross animals who basically feed their babies poo, and who are so dumb they can’t even recognize a eucalyptus leaf when it’s removed from a branch and offered to them. 2. The Spanish Inquisition. 3. To three-star most of this series. This is one of those series (and authors) people have been recommending to me for yearrrrs now. And many of them have done so while telling me it’s one of their favorites. So, no pressure or anything. Actually I’m being serious. I don’t […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

Stories like sassy little cupcakes.

Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi by John Scalzi

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This little book was just FUN. I normally avoid short story collections, since for some reason my brain does the opposite of what you would expect, and refuses to concentrate on any story that is less than one hundred pages long. Thankfully that wasn’t the case with Miniatures. I found this very short fiction collection extremely entertaining, and the perfect light read to distract me from real life stuff. Each story is 2,500 words or less. Some of them were published previously but a good majority of them were new to this collection. And all of them (excepting the last […]

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4/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:32 |

Intellectually interesting, not so much enjoyable for me.

The Devourers by Indra Das

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Well, I think I’ve put this review off long enough, and it will be a short one, since our fantastic discussion last month covered a LOT of ground. The Devourers is certainly an original take on werewolves, I’ll give it that, but this book was just not for me. I get intellectually what it was going for, and in parts I was engaged, but overall, I just didn’t care. At the beginning of the book, I actively disliked it. As many have said in their reviews, for me it got better once the book switched narrators to the female character, […]

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4/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Jodi Picoult’s racism book . . . I have thoughts.

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

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I’ve decided not to rate this book because my thoughts are so conflicted about it, but I do want to say some things. This is a book about a black nurse being prohibited from treating the newborn son of a white supremacist, and when the baby dies, he accuses her of murdering his son. I’ve never read a Jodi Picoult book before, because her books have always seemed like they were Issue Books, designed to be manipulative in a way that emphasizes the subject matter over the actual story and characters. That is Not My Thing. And really, after reading […]

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4/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

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