Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I knew pets were trouble!

Game of Pets Book 1: The Boy Who Knew Too Much by Aaron Blabey

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While I can’t say Game of Pets Book 1: The Boy Who Knew Too Much LEFT our main character hanging off the wheel of the giant monster truck (which he actually was at one point) it does leave you hanging as the cliffhanger ending ends with a police chase and the fate of the world in the hands of a kid, a talking (arm and legless) axolotl, and a crazy pet shop/monster truck owner. Aaron Blabey, you are one weird person. An AXOLOTL? Pets as […]

It walks, talks, learns, and wants to take over the world

How to Train Your Evil Robot, by Joy McCullough and Eduardo Medeiros

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I would have liked a smidgen more technical information in the book, How to Train Your Evil Robot, but overall this is a fun read about AI or of course, artificial intelligence, but the way it is presented mostly allows for the amount we are given to lead to an understanding of what AI is and what it can do. I read via an online reader copy, therefore I could see the graphic novel format, but am also assuming it might be a bit of […]

Eat the Rich

The Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

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This book was INSANE. I saw this somewhere on my Facebook feed… someone posted they liked it, didn’t want to give any spoilers, and so I just put it on my TBR list and didn’t read the blurb. I was looking for something quick and easy Sunday morning, and this was available from the library, so in to the Kindle it went. I read this book in maybe two hours. Holy shit, is all I have to say. The long and short of the story […]

Once upon a time, there was a brave hero named…Grandpa

The Land of Unfinished Dreams by Marco Ventura and Marco Ferraris

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Most of my rating of four is for the fun images of Marco Ferraris in the graphic novel, The Land of Unfinished Dreams. However, the story, by Marco Ventura, had a few bumps, but once I got into things it flowed well. This was because Ferraris created images that help you see the action. The text (I am assuming) is translated which probably accounts for any issues I had to start with. In many ways, the  themes of the story are for teens and adults, […]

This isn’t your Happy Days Cunninghams

John of the Night by Darryl Cunningham

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Recently I have read two books that gave me such a stomach ache for all the right and wrong reasons. One of those was John of the Night by Darryl Cunningham. I’ve no idea what I read. But I liked it. I think…. On one level things are really straight forward. We have a superhero-Christ like figure who might be the Anti-Christ, or at least might be working for them as John could be either hero, villain or some combination of the two. Then things […]

Give a girl a warning she’s going to be mind flipped…only I didn’t say flipped

Forevr by Brian Brown

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Recently I have read two books that have given me a gut punch for all the right and wrong reasons. Forevr (yes, that is how it is spelled) by Brian Brown, is one of them.  After reading Brown’s book I said to myself: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG (but I didn’t say Dang)! What the heck was that? I think I needed to take a dramamine pill before reading. I mean how do you process a thoughtful, dark, a bit sad, a bit too could happen, semi-humours ride through […]



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