Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I don’t want it to be over

Blood of Dragons: Volume Four of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

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Cbr18bingo Versus Blood of Dragons is the thrilling conclusion to The Rain Wilds Chronicles featuring the showdowns readers have been waiting for: men versus dragons, old ways versus new, and that nasty, greedy abuser Hest versus Alise and Sedric.  The traders of Bingtown and the people of the Rain Wilds made a pact with the dragon Tintaglia years ago: Tintaglia would protect them from the warlike Chalcedean Kingdom and in return, they would serve her and any fledgling dragons that emerged from their cocoons. But […]

Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb

Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb

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Not a bad installment to the “In Death” series. This honestly gets four stars since there was less what I call aggravations in this one. Plus, this one had a call back to a previous book, Innocent in Death. There are some loose ends in this long running series, so it was nice to get something nice and tidied away. Though I still call BS that no one out there is ever going to call Roarke out on the things he got up to when […]

“Magic is desire made real.”

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

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CBR18Bingo: Craft, because one character learns how to do witchcraft. A Discovery of Witches is about Diana Bishop, a historian who stumbles upon a powerful ancient manuscript. Because Diana is also a witch, she recognizes the manuscript’s magical qualities, and returns it, trying to keep magic out of her academic work as much as possible. But it turns out this manuscript has been lost for 250 years, and the fact that she was able to find and open it is enough to draw the attention […]

When Lovecraft Dismantles the Government

The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross

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Bob’s Back! And so are the the spoilers for previous books. Be warned! Our main protagonist may be back but all is not good with the world. The Laundry is in big trouble. A mainstay of the British government for decades (albiet a secretive one), The Laundry has suddenly come under scrutiny. Thanks to the events of The Nightmare Stacks, one could argue there is no use trying to hide magic from the general public, and the existence of the department is now public. Unfortunately, […]

Dark Administration

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

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  There’s one sub-genre of fantasy that’s been having a moment in the last few years that I have been really struggling to fully embrace and that is ‘dark academia’. You would think this might be kind of thing that I might be into given my background, but I’ve never really vibed terribly well with it. I guess I don’t really feel the need to read something from the perspective of students these days? That’s what made The Incandescent by Emily Tesh a little more […]

A Fantastic Blend of Mystery, Magic, and Heart

The Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic & Murder by Kiri Callaghan

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Neither Avery Hemlock or Saga Trygg are having a great time at the moment.  Avery’s a changeling who’s been offered an early release from her five hundred years of sleep if she works to solve a crime.  Saga’s been left at the alter and dropped out of medical school, and now she’s trying to find her way both back to herself and forward in the world.  When their paths cross, the two of them have the chance to help one another navigate unfamiliar worlds: the […]



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