Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Demons and wizards and magic – oh my!

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

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4.5 stars Bree Matthews applied to an early admissions residential program at the same college that her mother attended, only to discover that her mother strongly objected to her going there. They had a blistering argument, and Bree’s mother died in a car accident before they had a chance to settle things. Bree blames herself for her mother driving when angry. Her grief and guilt are overwhelming, so Bree hopes that being away from home is the best way forward. She has barely arrived at […]

Teenagers, ammirite?

No Place Like Oz (Dorothy Must Die Prequel #1) by Danielle Paige

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This is the backstory on Dorothy after she spent her first time in Oz wanting nothing more than to return to Kansas and then spent her time back in Kansas wanting nothing more than to return to Oz. We begin with Dorothy’s infamous (at least to her) 16th birthday party, and are reminded how terrible teenagers are, no matter what universe or timeline you are in. Then Dorothy mysteriously returns to Oz and unfortunately brings Toto, her Aunt Em, and uncle Henry with her. I […]

“You know who you are, I know who you are, and our Lady does, too.”

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

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#CBR15 Passport Challenge: Different genres (paranormal fantasy) Being a queer teen can be difficult enough, even if you don’t come from a long line of magic users with very traditional gender roles. In Yadriel’s family, the brujos can summon the spirits of the dead and help them find peace in the afterlife. The brujas have tremendous healing powers. However, Yadriel’s family won’t let him go through the traditional rite for brujos, because of the gender he was born with. The only ones who seem to […]

“But magic came, ever his friend…”

Sorceror to the Crown by Zen Cho

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Woot! First review of the year! I must have read a review of Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown on here (perhaps yesnopemaybe‘s), and so thanks for that. Zacharias Wythe, a formerly enslaved Black sorcerer has been named the Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers, a group that regulates magic in England. His ascendancy is the source of gossip due to his race and the manner in which he claimed the title and machinations by the other sorcerers. To make his job worse, magic is […]

Spoiler: Children are Friends, not Food.

I’m Hungry! by Elise Gravel

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Who has not had the “I’m Hungry!” issue? You eat a piece of pizza, but you are still hungry, and you want something else to eat. So, you eat the plate, the table, the house, the school, a mountain and finally you see the child reading the book you are in, and you try and eat them.  I mean, that happens to all of us, right? Well, it might not happen to all of us, but it happens to the monster in the board book […]

A Disappointing Sequel

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

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This review contains MASSIVE SPOILERS for This Poison Heart, so read at your own risk!         This Wicked Fate picks up directly after the events of This Poison Heart, with Briseis’s Mom dead, her soul held by the Goddess Hecate. If Briseis and the gang can reunite all the pieces of the Abstryus Heart in the next 28 days, they can bring her Mom back from the Underworld. So what does the gang do? Well, they already have all of the pieces […]



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