Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Swordheart: I never thought I would read this many books in a year and I’ve run clean out of taglines

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Wealth – The whole story starts with a moderate amount of wealth being left to Halla by a deceased granduncle, and her quest to get it back for the sake of her own nieces. Halla is the widowed housekeeper of Silas, her dead husband’s now-dead granduncle. Halla was, apparently, the only relative that spent much time with Silas because he left his estate to her, much to the chagrin of his nasty blood relatives. They have locked Halla up until she comes to […]

New Haven is for (Ghost) Lovers

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Galaxy (Alex) Stern sees dead people. And they see her. And sometimes they can touch her, and it’s as horrible as you can imagine. In fact, the first 20 years of Alex’s life have been pretty horrible. Her father has been MIA her whole life. And her hippie-dippie mother, Mira, is well-meaning but completely ineffective when it comes to keeping Alex safe. Instead, Alex turns to drugs; dropping out of high school and moving in with her child predator of a drug dealer boyfriend. Not […]

Slow Start, Then Great

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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CBR18 BINGO: Left (left side of my bookshelf) This wasn’t quite what I was expecting. The first chunk of the book had more politicking than I expected from reading the book blurb, as well as multiple POVs. While I don’t mind political fantasies, I was in the mood for a story about Vasya’s life in her village and the trouble brewing there. We did eventually get to that, and then I was hooked. There were still multiple POVs, but I think mostly the perspectives were from […]

There’s a good reason for bikini armor

Heathen by Natasha Alterici, Ashley A. Woods

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Cbr18 Bingo – Craft: the main character crafted a Viking helmet with horns because she’s a heathen. (They’re antlers, but take that, Christians.) There are watercraft. Storytelling and story listening are both important to the narrative. Heathen is a comic book by Natasha Alterici, Ashley A. Woods, et al. I don’t know enough to say if it’s based on Norse mythology or not, but I know enough to say the story is based in it. It takes place a long time ago, but not that […]

World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon: With a demon as the MMC the burn was never going to be slow

World's Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon by Olivia Dade

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CBR Bingo: Justice – This whole book is about the Good Guys (TM) seeking the identities of those who set the zombies free in the last book, averting disaster, and trying to get justice the wrongs that have been done. Spoilers for ZomRomCom ahead. We met Gwen in the tail end of ZomRomCom. She’s is a pretty okay oracle, but her visions tend to be quite small. Until she has a head-splitting vision of the end of the world, even after the zombie apocalypse has […]

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

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This whole book irked my soul. There was a lot of things happening in this one and i just felt wholly unsatisfied by the never ending attempts to break the curse and the character of Jemma forgiving people for the crap that they did. I don’t know what the author was going on for in this one, but I think that it could have pushed more on the horror aspects of this one or gone full V.C. Andrews it would have worked better. There were […]



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