Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Humans are the real monsters

A Soul to Heal by Opal Reyne

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I read the first novel in The Duskwalker Brides series, A Soul to Keep, last year and I absolutely fell in love with it. The author has stated that she was inspired to make this series by the anime/manga The Ancient Magus’s Bride, and since that is one of my all-time favorite series, I knew I had to check these books out. A Soul to Heal is the second volume, and you definitely need to have read the first book to fully understand this one. […]

“You rescue me. I rescue you. That’s how this works.”

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

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This is the second book in the Alex Stern series. This review will contain some spoilers for the first book in the series, Ninth House because I’m not sure how to review it without referencing things that happened in the last book. So if you’re new to this series, start there. Darlington is still missing, “in Spain” to those not in the know, and in Hell, possibly dead to those initiated in the secrets of Lethe House. Galaxy “Alex” Stern doesn’t have a lot of […]

Calling on Dragons- In Which the Re-Read Continues to Be Lovely.

Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

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A Princess’s work is never done–not even when she becomes a queen! Princess Cimorene is now Queen Cimorene … and she’s faced with her first queenly crisis — the Enchanted Forest is threatened with complete destruction! Those wizards are back — and they’ve become very smart. (Sort of.) They’ve figured out a way to take over the forest once and for all … and what they have planned isn’t pretty. With a little help from Kazul the dragon king, Morwen the witch, Telemain the magician, […]

A really good fantasy debut, with one glaring flaw.

The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) by Richard Swan

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This was promising! I’ve had my eye on it since it was published, and an audio sale at Libro.fm finally gave me the incentive to pick it up. I was originally reading The Pariah by Anthony Ryan at this spot in my February TBR, but listening to that book was a better sleep aid than it was a story*, and after only a couple of hours of attempting to listen, I swapped it out for this one, and that was a great decision. I particularly […]

Exploring self and style

Alone in Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden

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CBR15Passport, Books Already OwnAlone in Space: A Collection is some of Tillie Walden’s earlier works. I am not sure if things were edited a lot after the original publications, but what we have here is some raw material. Not only are there several stories (some more fleshed out than others) but some of their comments on how their style changed over time. I am fairly certain that most of Walden’s characters are based on actual feelings, thoughts and things she was going through as they […]

New Mystery New Friends

Bog Gone! Volume 1:  A graphic novel. by P. Knuckle Jones

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CBR15Passport new author If Sherlock Holmes meet the Scooby Gang (only if they were a frog, turtle, and a taco-loving beaver), you’d get Bog Gone! Volume 1:  A graphic novel. These three friends try to solve the case of the missing families of their town, while the Sherlock Holmes like creature (and our young frog heroine’s favorite detective), Mr. Seymour Warts, solves a related case. The humor is typical kid and the art typical fun for the younger crowd. Ages seven to 10 the best […]



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