Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

CBR BINGO: Summer—“That is not a load-bearing ear!”

Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2) by T. Kingfisher

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Honestly, there is a character in here that I was obsessed with IMMEDIATELY and had they been present throughout the narrative, this was going to get five stars. However, they were not, so I am only giving it 4.5, because I missed them when they were gone. Daggerbound is the sequel to 2020’s Swordheart, which was the first T. Kingfisher book I ever read, and still holds a special […]

Some novellas as a little treat

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Repair – In Automatic Noodle, the characters not only literally work to repair themselves and each other because they are robots who need repair after a few months of being shut down, but they also work to repair the reputation of their restaurant so they can grow it into a thriving establishment. CBR Bingo: Refuge – In Nine Goblins, Sings-To-Trees has created a refuge where magical and non-magical creatures alike can come for help. Automatic Noodle Automatic Noodle takes places in the not-too-distant […]

A Really Good Sequel

Sunsplitter by S. A. MacLean

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CBR18 BINGO: Season (the characters live and travel to places that are only ever 1 season) I liked this book quite a bit more than the first one. I was engaged the whole way through and never felt like it could stand to be shorter. It turns out there are immortal creatures that even daeyari are afraid of. Antal’s father Avroz enlists Antal to help track down one that has been hunting in the Season-Locked Planes, especially Antal’s territory. Fi joins the hunt, and chapters are from […]

There are only two kinds of story worth telling: the ones that send children to sleep, and the ones that send men to war. I need the second.

The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow

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Well good thing there was a bingo square for ‘Craft’ this year, because I have not read a book as well crafted as The Everlasting for a very long time. Alix E. Harrow has always been an ambitious writer, but here she really exceeds herself. The Everlasting is, at its core a love story, but I’m sort of reluctant to categorize it as just a romance; it’s so, so much more. Around it’s romantic core, it is a story about the power of myth-making, nationalism, […]

“It was enough simply to be for a while alongside a friend. Everything else was just noise.” (I wish this book was just noise)

A Fellowship of Games & Fables: Adenashire Book Three by J. Penner

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Jez, Adenashire’s resident grumpy Fennex, would rather curl up for a nap and hibernate through the season rather than go out in the snow and frolic. Unfortunately, a drunken boast lands her in the middle of the holiday festivities, competing in the Yule competition, and fake dating her friend, Taenya. (Well, that’s what you get when you mix pounding back drinks with an antagonistic personality. Or being a FMC in a Cozy Romantasy; either one.) Plagued by chronic fatigue (for unexplained reasons. Could be the […]

A weird heartwarming story about dead people

Hotel Limbo V01 by Ben Harel

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Okay, Hotel Limbo V01 by Ben Harel….  What the h-e-double hockey sticks did I read? This is one confusing, wild, unusual and crazy book. In other words, it is a must read. Okay, readers. I cannot tell you the story. Sure I can but it then tells you everything you would experience and honestly you should go into this book with no preconceptions other than that it is a journey and experience. But I will say we deal with death. Except it’s funny. Until it […]



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