Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“I’d take a racoon to the face for you any day, Rose Evans.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Transportation Doctor Fionn Kane is doing just fine in the little Nebraska town he retreated to after leaving his promising surgical career and ex-fiancee behind. He doesn’t really want anything to do with the past-times of either of his brothers and is keeping his head down, running and working out when he’s not working in his small medical clinic or the hospital. He also crochets. Then a beautiful woman with a severe leg injury ends up nearly unconscious on the floor […]

I’m not sure we’re better off in this universe either…

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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This is a story that Alderman describes as feminist science fiction – a type of speculative fiction that I like to call a “what-if” story. The Power examines how power comes in various forms – whether physical, societal, something you are born into, something you can take from someone…and the list goes on. Alderman explores what happens when women develop an organ called a skein that enables them to deliver electrical shocks. Their inherent ability to physically overcome any man changes the balance of power […]

He constantly reminds me of a dark-haired Steve Rogers, not entirely grasping that Hooters isn’t really just a hot wings place.

My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

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Ahhhhhhh! I loved My Big Fat Fake Marriage! It is so delightfully bonkers, and sweet, and filthy. Charlotte Stein has become an auto-buy author for me. Her books are so joyful while also digging into very relatable anxieties. Connie has a lot of experience with the modern London Nice Guy, and she knows better than to trust a nice guy. Her neighbor, Beck, is just so nice. He says “howdy neighbor” and leaves her pies that he baked himself. Beck is so nice that Connie is […]

“What, other than a person, could you build up merely by caring?”

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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Hey look, I read my very first Brandon Sanderson book! Even better, I really liked it. Very nearly 5-star loved it.   I have been intrigued by the writings of Brandon Sanderson for years, it’s hard to be a Cannonballer and not see many of the people whose opinions you generally agree with, and trust have incredibly complementary things to say about it. But the kind of massive, high fantasy volumes that Sanderson is infamous for have never been my thing. But then I kept […]

Horribly Fun

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky has a knack for making humans supporting actors in his space-faring opera about intelligent animal life. After reading Children of Time, which I enjoyed, I wasn’t sure how he would do a second book about a different species in a fresh way. But this second book is just as good as the first. Told in a similar way to Children of Time, Children of Ruin switches between the past and present. The past being a time when human civilization has basically self-destructed and sent […]

The audiobook is a must.

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Happy pub day to this lovely little book 🙂 Okay, I’m rounding this up to five stars because I can’t stop thinking about it. Setting aside re-reads, I think this might actually be the best book I read in February. This is a fairytale-esque novella about two sisters who sing to willow trees and have to deal with unwanted and wanted suitors, and it’s about the strength of […]



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