Cannonball Read 18

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what happens when you impulse murder a monarch

Anji Kills a King (The Rising Tide, #1) by Evan Leikam

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This was a really interesting debut fantasy, but it didn’t quiiiite do it for me. I thought it was more intellectually interesting than emotionally, but I am going to read the rest of the series because I’m super curious to see where this is going. We start out strong with the titular Anji killing the king and then going on the run. We don’t know who she […]

Welcome to your life. There’s no turning back.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler

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I read the first book, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, in Django Wexler’s Dark Lord Davi duology last year, and while I didn’t love it, I enjoyed it enough to want to read the sequel, Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me. The book continues the story of Davi, a young woman from our world who has gotten herself trapped in a time loop in a fairly standard medieval fantasy world. Every time the loop resets, she wakes up in […]

Where Men Are the Worst, and Menopause Gives You Magic Powers

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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In a quiet Long Island town, three women of a certain age discover that they have more power than they ever thought possible. Jo, a former hotel executive, owns a women-only gym, and has hot flashes that can literally set things on fire. Nessa is a retired nurse who can hear the dead calling to her and see their unsettled shades. And Harriet? Well, Harriet hasn’t left her house in months, her garden has turned into a wild place full of unsettling plants, and there […]

The Good Stuff.

Peter and Wendy/ Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. Berrie

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No pic, sorry!  Old book. This volume, which I picked up in an estate sale somewhere, is an old one, published in 1913.  It features an account of the author’s mother, Margaret Ogilvy (which was written in 1896), as well as the original version of Peter Pan.  As far as the former goes, we meet his mum as a widowed Scot with a devious turn of mind and not a care in the world as to what anyone thinks of her.  That was fun. But […]

Houyhnhnms and Dragons

Moonbound by Robin Sloan

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I’ve had Moonbound on my TBR shelf physically for a while. It’s also been long enough that I don’t remember hardly anything about Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (first big hit, by this author). I remember that I really enjoyed both Mr. Penumbra and the follow-up, but not direct sequel, Sourdough. I vaguely remember both of the earlier books as vaguely magical realism, and overall entertaining but Moonbound seems to be something a little different. The power of story and narrative is major theme, and it […]

Generally Entertaining but I have Questions

Notorious Sorcerer by Davina Evans

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I don’t often read on the Kindle app; I prefer having a paper object that I don’t’ have to worry about charging or breaking, and that doesn’t keep me up late with screen brain buzz. However, sometimes when there’s a sale on something interesting, I might on rare occasions download an ebook. I’d forgotten about Notorious Sorcerer, but for some reason, I opened the app, and decided that’s what I wanted to read. This story is sort of cozy, fantasy, a little romance, and adventure. […]



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