Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Probably the way I found this book was more interesting to me than the book

Marigold and Rose by Louise Gluck

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Honestly, I am not really sure what I read.  Marigold and Rose by Louise Gluck is not in my usual wheelhouse. First it is an adult book, not a kids book and second, it is a mixture of unusual prose poetry and a regular novel. Go ahead and call me unsophisticated if you wish. I’m good with that. Not every book is meant for everyone and not everyone is meant for every book. I would say that the book has two main layers to it. […]

That’ll teach her to steal the moon

Fae and the Moon by Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun

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What is the point of reading? For fun? To learn? Or to pass the time? Maybe all those layers and more. And Fae and the Moon has a few layers too. Granted, it might not be a seven-layer cake, but it has two or three.  Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun came together to make a cute story about the idea of female empowerment, friendship, family and self understanding. The illustrations are simple, but cute and even the scary parts are lovely in the […]

Birthday Cupcakes Gone Bad!

Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes   by Rachel DiNunzio

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Working in an independent bookstore has a lot of perks. One is that you get emails telling you BOOK X is coming out! Request a reader’s copy today! And when I got an email telling me that Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes  by Rachel DiNunzio was available I emailed the rep and asked if they had a finished copy. And they happily sent me one. Therefore, I read via a physical reader’s copy and glad I did. An online version would not have had […]

Living Dead Girls

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

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Come Tumbling Down is the fifth book in the Wayward Children series and features some of my favorite characters and my favorite magical world so far, The Moors. The Moors look as if they were conceived by the classic MGM horror movie makers but their rules are much more bloody and dangerous. It also sees the return of Jack and Jillian Wolcott, who returned to The Moors at the end of book one, with Jack carrying her dead sister with her through their door. If […]

I am once again begging you not to go into the forest

Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

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I don’t really like the wild woods. Give me a nice trail I can run on, bike on, or walk my dog on and I’m good. But take me off the path into the woods – nah. In the woods, there is a potential for monsters, or so the many scary books I have read have taught me, haha. (Disclaimer: I have only respect for people who can safely hike and adventure in the woods. You are a different breed than I am, and good […]

“But the question I find myself asking is this: How can a man control your fate when he is not even the master of his own?”

A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

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Freya is sick of being stuck in a loveless marriage, spending her days gutting fish and keeping house. But when she reveals her identity as a child of the goddess Hlin, she is swept up into the politics of the realm, for it has been prophesied that whoever controls her fate will become king of the land. Fantasy was always my first love when it came to books. Nowadays I have ranged far from that familiar region, but sometimes you just want to go back […]



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