Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Light and dark fantasy

Coral’s Reef volume one by David Lumsdon

Castle Swimmer volume one by Wendy Martin

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I do not know if the (online reader copy) Coral’s Reef volume one by David Lumsdon and Shiei was originally a webcomic, but I know Castle Swimmer volume one by Wendy Martin was. Why I say this is because the two books have some similarities and of course, differences. But they make me think of each other. I read Coral via an online reader copy as said, but read at least volume one on WebToons for Castle. However, it is now going to be in […]

And here my basement only had a skunk

Things in the Basement by Ben Katke

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The rating of a four for Things in the Basement is because of the illustrations. While on the surface, Ben Hatke’s story and art are not huge  “wows” (the illustrations are not overly colorful, or detailed; the story is slow to build up), there is something about them that makes you want more. The focus you need for the illustrations means you need to read the images as the book itself is mostly wordless. There are some interesting twists and turns and the “creepy factor” […]

Late to the Party

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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So ends my reign as one of the last holdouts of my generation. I remember when this book first became a sensation and some of my middle-school classmates were reading it. Oh, how I scoffed. Children’s literature, at our age? Hadn’t we moved on? I was reading Orwell, Vonnegut, Salinger, etc. I didn’t have the time or the inclination to read a book about a kid younger than I was, magical powers or not. I clung to that position of unearned snobbery even as the […]

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi- Egyptian mythology. Bad ass middle aged lady pirate captain. Found family. What more do you need to hear??

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S. A. Chakraborty

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Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend. Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire […]

World’s Most Dangerous Flight School

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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I know people who read the Fourth Wing and raved about it; I picked it up in a bookstore, saw that it used first-person present-tense narration, and put it back immediately. I saw it at the library, and decided to give it another chance. I struggled to get into it, and then I saw a social media post of a bookstore display with the signed “worst books ever”; the two things on that table I have read I kind of believe deserve to be there. […]

Never in her thirty-five years of being Black did Helen Beck expect to be in the middle of a forest with Enya playing on battery powered speakers.

I’ll Come Back for You by Charish Reid

I’ll Conjure for You by Charish Reid

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With The Beck Sister Hauntings series, Charish Reid has entered a new phase, and I love it. I’ll Come Back for You and I’ll Conjure for You are creepy, atmospheric, funny, heartfelt, and spicy. Horror isn’t my preferred genre, but I’ll follow an author I trust out of my comfort zone. Mix in romance and it’s expectation of a Happily Ever After, and I’m willing to test my anxiety tolerance. Whitney and Helen Beck have inherited their late grandmother’s bed and breakfast in upstate New York. […]



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