Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Wrestling with Theology in Short Fantasy Fiction

Pulling the Wings Off Angels by KJ Parker

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I started reading KJ Parker’s Prosper’s Demon as an ARC a few years back. I remember putting it down about halfway through the novella and being fully OK with not continuing it but not having strong feelings about it one way or another. The book has since earned raves. I regularly come across recommendations for it as a readalike for something I really like. I can’t shake that I didn’t like it. I just didn’t. I didn’t hate it. I wasn’t offended by it. I […]

The penultimate Kate Daniels novel.

Magic Binds (Kate Daniels, #9) by Ilona Andrews

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This is my favorite one of these so far. Everything is finally coming together. This is also actually the first of these books where I feel emotionally invested in Kate/Curran as a couple, which is kind of mind-boggling if you think about it. I’m really not reading this for the romance, but the worldbuilding and the side characters, and also Kate is a badass. Here’s the blurb, because I just can’t right now: “Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their […]

“Books are Doors and I wanted out.”

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

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*Audiobook Review* I have no idea how I am going to review this book. It is indescribable. To me, it was a perfect book. I have read all of Harrow’s other novels. The Once and Future Witches was my favorite book I read last year, and this will probably end up being my favorite of this year. January Scalla is a mixed-race 19-year-old girl who has practically been raised by her father’s wealthy, white employer, Mr. Locke. It is set in the early 20th Century, […]

Who Wouldn’t Want a Bunch of Sexy Gargoyles?

Deceived By The Gargoyles by Lillian Lark

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The author stated that this book was inspired by the 90s afternoon Disney cartoon, Gargoyles, but sexy, and I said “How fast can I read this?” The answer is one afternoon! Grace is a witch who has had several bad dates, so she decides to seek out a paranormal matchmaker. She is set up on a date with a gargoyle, Elliot. What Elliot doesn’t tell Grace or the matchmaker is that he is already mated. To two other gargoyles. He just feels that something is […]

The epitome of ‘meh’

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

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Hell Bent picks up not too long after the events of Ninth House: Darlington is gone, eaten up by a hell beast and likely sent down to hell. Alex Stern is determined to get Darlington, her friend and mentor back from hell or wherever he might be. And she will use the full might and magic of Lethe and the rest of the magical societies at Yale if she has to. The challenge is that there isn’t much information about descending to hell in any […]

Walking through the apocalypse

Rain by Joe Hill

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CBR15Passport,  Illustrator lives in UK I did not rate Rain a five because it was the best, but because it really hit me in the right feels. Plus, there are some amazing alternative images at the end.  It is probably a 4.5 but I was feeling generous as this is an experience book that had I been having another experience than what was happening while reading, this book wouldn’t have worked. You need to give this book time, read the illustrations, read slowly as if […]



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