Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Magic and Intrigue

A Fiery Spirit by Kate Chenli

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Picking up almost right where A Bright Heart ended, Mingshan has defeated Ren and created a new life for herself.  But her troubles aren’t over.  Ren had help from the Night Dragon, an evil magician, who is still a threat.  Mingshan has new problems including her developing magic, and her fears that if her new friends and allies learn about it, she’ll lose much of what she’s gained.  However, the secrets put a strain on her relationship with Jieh.  As they race to put an […]

Turn Of the Century Beauty & the Beast

The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey

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Rosalind Hawkins is looking at a bleak future when a mysterious job offer arrives.  She’s whisked off to the San Francisco Bay area and installed in the mansion of Jason Cameron, a rail baron.  She quickly discovers that she was not hired to be a governess but to read and translate scholarly works he needs for his research.  Jason is a Elemental Master of Fire who dabbled in Earth magic which backfired on him and turned him into a combination of wolf and man, and […]

This Guy Doesn’t Want to Rule the World, But He Will

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

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This book fills the CBR18 Bingo square “versus,” in the sense of “person versus society.” Or, in this case, “half-goblin versus society of pure-blood elves.” Maia is the half-goblin in question. He’s in line for the imperial throne, but VERY far down. Like, so far down, the emperor has him living way out in the middle of nowhere. So far down that the only way Maia could possibly become emperor is if the entire lineage were to die in an airship crash, which, pffbt, never […]

The Boogie Man is real

The Whisper Man by Alex North

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TRIGGER WARNING FOR BOOK. Review is safe.  and my FREE BINGO becuase I thought it would be funny to have all the circles filled and I really couldn’t make up my mind which one I wanted to use for Or (‘cause really you can’t trust anyone OR can you?)   Like the last few years, my New Year’s Resolutions this year were to read more books and different books than usual. However, the second one proved tricky. I’d start something out of my wheelhouse and […]

I can feel it coming in the air tonight

A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

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Bingo Square: Joker (Carl is chaos personified) Quote: “That’s the problem with hitting the elites financially. Every time you hurt one, all it does is make another richer. That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads.” Throughout the series, the beginnings of the new novels and floors have tended to act as resets and completely shift the tone. Book 3 went from everyone working together at the end of the Iron Tangle to being separated for the Bubbles; Book 5 to Book […]

Man or dragon? Choose dragon

City of Dragons: Volume Three of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

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Cbr18bingo steal In this third volume of The Rain Wilds Chronicles, a variety of forces working against the dragons and their survival come to the fore. Some of those forces are natural but the most deadly threats are human in nature: politics, economics, greed, and desperation.  In City of Dragons, the party of dragons, their keepers and the crew of the liveship barge Tarman have arrived at Kelsingra, the fabled Elderling city, but their problems are far from over and their future is uncertain. The […]



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