Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I'm Natalie and 2026 is my third year participating in cannonball read. I love reading, especially fantasy and science fiction books. I live on Vancouver Island, in Canada.

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What’s the opposite of warp speed?

Warp by Lev Grossman

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Lev Grossman’s The Magicians Trilogy is one of my favourite book series of all time (I also understand why it might not be everyone’s cup of tea). I also loved his take on the King Arthur mythos, The Bright Sword, which came out last year. I’ve had one of his earlier novels, Warp, sitting on my shelf for a while now, and it fits my current method of choosing books to quickly reduce my physical TBR pile (i.e., read the shortest ones first), so I […]

The Ghost in the Machine

Rubicon by J. S. Dewes

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One of my favourite reads last year was J. S. Dewes The Divide trilogy. When I learned that she’d also written a standalone novel, Rubicon, I had to pick it up. It is set in a world where humanity lives on two planets orbiting a dying sun (just how imminent the death approaches is a topic somewhat up for debate) and is at war with a race of sentient robots, known as Mechs. Adriene Valero is a “pathfinder” in a military unit (sort of a […]

A middling middle book

Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

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I read Hannah Kaner’s novel, Godkiller, about a month ago, and liked it enough to pick up second book in the Fallen Gods trilogy, Sunbringer. Godkiller told the story of Kissen, a “godkiller” in the kingdom of Middren. A few years after a war involving the gods, worship is outlawed in the kingdom. Kissen is sort of a bounty hunter, tracking down and removing problematic gods from villages. When she meets a young girl, Inara, who is inextricably linked to a small god of white […]

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

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After reading the first three books in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman while traveling between Christmas and New Years, I was excited to continue with the series. In the short time since, I’ve flown through the next three books: The Gate of the Feral Gods, The Butcher’s Masquerade, and The Eye of the Bedlam Bride. These books continue the story of Carl and Princess Donut, his ex-girlfriend’s cat, as they compete in the galactic gameshow, Dungeon Crawler World after the collapse of […]

Yawn

The High Mountain Court by A. K. Mulford

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I’m not entirely sure how I ended up with a copy of The High Mountain Court, by A. K. Mulford. I don’t remember buying it or being gifted it, but it’s probably been sitting on my shelf for at least the past few years. I didn’t know much about this book before starting to read it. It tells the story of nineteen-year-old Remy, who believes herself to be the last red witch alive after the King of the Northern Court invaded the High Mountain Court […]

“Is it the whole cat that’s dead? Or just the tails?”

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

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I’m continuing with my current M.O. of choosing the shortest unread books in my possession to read first. Clocking in at just over 200 pages, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark was a fun, breezy read. The story takes place over one night in the city of Tal Ibisi. It follows Eveen, an undead assassin who works for the titular Dead Cat Tail Assassins organization of hired killers. She accepts a contract where she is only given an address, but when she […]



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