Cannonball Read 18

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"Wings In the Morning" by Sarah Rees Brennan

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This is really just a four star review for the one story in here about Luke Sunborn, he of the lovable himbo with depth persuasion in the delightful In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. I re-read In Other Lands solely to read this story, because I feared I would not recall enough of the tale to fully appreciate it. Perhaps that would be true, but I can also say that this story is written with enough context and callback that you can enjoy it either way! So In Other […]

Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong

Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Honestly, this had a really cool premise and I found myself really into it at a certain point, but that just fizzled. I think that the book was just too short in the end and it felt rushed at times and there’s no real resolution. You can just ask yourself what do you think happens next since it’s not spelled out one way or the other. I also […]

Let’s Meet the Meat Industry

A Trade in Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett

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It’s another Shadow of the Leviathan book! And this means there’s a new mystery for Ana and Din to solve. Like the previous two books, The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption, A Trade in Blood takes us to a new canton in Khanum and with that comes a new murder to solve—and a new aspect of Empire for Robert Jackson Bennett to pick apart. This time, it’s meat. Or to be more specific, how does an Empire with an increasingly expensive tastes and a […]

If you want to live forever, read this book. It will feel like an eternity.

A Fate Inked in Blood: Saga of the Unfated Book One by Danielle L. Jensen

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Set in a world where the Gods frequently join in marital relations and give blood to their chosen children, Freya chafes at her life. Bound in an unwanted marriage to a son of the Ocean God Njord, she spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of joining Snorri’s, the region’s jarl, war band and proving herself in battle. And putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. (Of course he’s horrible; this is a Romantasy, and he’s not the MMC.) Her dreams abruptly come true […]

The Memory of Borrowed Books by Meg Anderson

The Memory of Borrowed Books by Meg Anderson

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review.  Wow. This was a painful read. I should have DNFed it, but I kept hoping it would get better, it did not. I think the bigger issue is that the entire book felt fragmented. We know why it was that way later, but it didn’t read for a nice smooth read. And the romance that we should root for, just felt dull and limp. There’s a plot about […]

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

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I really enjoyed the first book in this series and kept wondering where the other books were, well we get the second book in the Swordheart series now and the third and final one next year called Shieldborn. This was a long slow romantasy novel that I think will thrill T. Kingfisher fans. We have more information about The World of the White Rat and some call backs to her other works in the Clocktaur War series. Daggerbound follows Learned Edmund who is ready to […]



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