Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Chorus of Dragons, Series Review

The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons

The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons

The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons

The House of Always by Jenn Lyons

The Discord of Gods by Jenn Lyons

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How epic do you like your fantasy? Do you need world-ending battles between gods and demons? Do you love dragons and wizards? Vampires and zombies and shapeshifters? Magic swords and magic stones? How about pirates and kraken? Maybe some political intrigue and betrayal?? Well, buddy, have I got the series for you! I seriously feel like Stefon when I talk about this series, because these books have everything. Also, it’s told in varying timelines, by various narrators, under the conceit that these chronicles have been […]

Be Yourself, they will come

Just Being Ted by Lisa Sheehan

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It was “read this picture book today” day. And that book was Just Being Ted by Lisa Sheehan. The story is simple enough, with a large dragon, who goes by the name of Ted, being our main man, er dragon. They love their home, and all the wonderful things they can do in it. But they would also like to make some friends. However, even when they bring gifts, or even cake, everyone hollers, “Eek! Dragon! Run Away!” (Or some variation of that) and runs […]

“Why do these colonizers always claim what isn’t theirs?”

A Master of Djinn by P. Djéli Clark

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I read the previous novella in this series, A Dead Djinn in Cairo,  and really enjoyed the world that P. Djeli Clark created in it. I have a few friends that, whenever we get together, we compare “what we’ve been reading” lists, and in one of those conversations a friend brought up A Master of Djinn, and based on her recommendation and my previous experience with the author’s work I immediately added the book to my Libby queue.  Picking up a bit after the initial […]

“If it works, it works!”

How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe

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While I have been a tabletop role playing game guy for about a decade, I was unaware of the literary role playing game (LitRPG) subgenre until earlier this year, when I found out friend’s son was publishing LitRPG books under a pen name (Exciting!) LitRPG is, I guess, kind of a narrative fiction in which characters level up like they would in an RPG. At first blush I was a little confused by this, because it seems like RPGs are often based on fantasy or […]

Trick or Baseball?

Fuzzy Baseball V05: Baseballoween by John Steven Gurney

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The series Fuzzy Baseball is known for occasionally breaking the fourth wall, but this time, in Fuzzy Baseball V05: Baseballoween everything is broken! Yes, it is funny, and still has the fantastically clever baseball name puns, but it feels like John Steven Gurney has gotten a few balls to the head and is close to a strikeout. I think it is time to hang up the catcher’s mitt and move onto a new gang of players. Though, the Halloween aspect is funny and even though […]

As much as I like this series, I give you two more volumes and please finish the story arc

The Nightmare Brigade V03 Finding Alice by Franck Thillez

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In many ways, volume three of The Nightmare Brigade: Finding Alice is both my least due to changes happening to the characters and some of the new characters added are not “fleshed out” enough (hopefully that is a “yet”). However, it is also a favorite due to getting the bigger picture we had had established in the first two volumes by Franck Thillez. This time, even though we have entered the nightmares of others, this time it feels heavier on the fantasy and science elements. […]



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