Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Boys only want love if it’s torture.

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

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Reciprocity was a thing you had to learn. Someone had to tell you, first, that you deserved to be treated well, before you knew it for yourself. ― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron CBR17 Bingo: Family Family because the sultan loves her brother, Kadou, but she must remain emotionally distant from him and his drama so she can deal with raising her infant daughter, who is the heir to the throne. I don’t remember when I read this book. Maybe it was […]

“Magic Is the First and Last Religion of the World. It Has the Power to Make Us Whole.”

Imajica by Clive Barker

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Damn, the effort I have gone to in my search for a book that fits the “I” square! I went through a bit of a horror-reading phase in my early twenties, and Clive Barker was one of the authors I had on rotation. But I never did pick up his fantasy doorstopper Imajica—I think I was just a little too intimidated. But in the age of e-readers, what’s to stop me? Imajica is certainly epic in scope; the story covers the Five Dominions that make […]

Once Upon a Time in Holy Wood

Eric by Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

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  CBR Bingo: Red (Eric) CBR Bingo: Arts (Moving Pictures) I’m continuing my (almost) in-order read of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series with the ninth and tenth books, Eric and Moving Pictures. Eric is the fourth book in the subseries focusing on the Wizards of Unseen University (it’s got some slight references to the events of Sourcery, but it can likely be read without having read that one previously). Moving Pictures is technically a standalone but does feature quite a few reoccurring characters (with Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, an […]

“People say, I’ll give anything. The universe listens. But the universe doesn’t listen when you say, Wait, not that.”

Long Live Evil: Time of Iron Book One by Sarah Rees Brennan

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The difference between a villain and a hero is that a villain gets found out as a human being. Rae is 23 and dying of leukemia, with nothing to keep her company in the hospital but her 20 year old sister Alice and their favorite series: Time of Iron.  It may have started out as just Alice’s, but once Rae heard of the Once and Forever Emperor, Master of the Dread Ravine, Commander of the Living and the Dead; he’s the villain, he’s broody, he […]

Dead gods, decapitated corpses and dastardly ex-husbands

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

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CBR17 Bingo: Purple (most of the cover, barring the cover image, is a lovely lavender purple) Stephen is one of the paladins of the Saint of Steel (who was a god, despite the name), who died very suddenly and unexpectedly a few years back. No one thought gods could die, and a lot of his paladins killed themselves and caused massive amounts of damage when it happened. Now, Stephen and the six other paladins who remain are housed at the Temple of the White Rat […]

Bingo Blackout + Cannonball!

This Will Be Fun: A Novel by E.B. Asher

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Cbr17bingo review — by Finnyfinfinn E.B. Asher is the pen name for the three authors who wrote This Will Be Fun together: Bridget Morrissey, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka. They are all romance authors, and while there are a couple of lovely romances in this story, it is also an adventure full of bickering and swashbuckling. It’s funny and highly entertaining while dealing with some more serious issues like grief, betrayal and survivor’s guilt. Thanks to Finnyfinfinn for the previous review. In the mythical Queendom […]



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