Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“We should appreciate the flower, regardless of its roots.”

Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom Duology, #1) by Sue Lynn Tan

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I need to write this review now or I will never come back to it (see below). But I will keep it short! I liked this book a lot, but not as much as I wanted to. The story was great, the world was imaginative , and I liked the characters (though the way the worldbuilding was introduced could have been much clearer; I was well into the book before I felt like I understood where the characters were and what their world looked like). […]

Gender Roles Are Bullshit

Down Among The Sticks And Bones by Seanan McGuire

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones is the Second Book in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children Series and I loved it even more than the first. This novella gives us the backstory of Jack and Jill (formally named Jacqueline and Jillian), twin sisters who were raised to have very specific gender roles, whether they actually wanted them or not. Their parents, who always did everything perfectly, expected one girl and one boy. When they didn’t get their expected male child, they decided to make Jillian into […]

The women of The Odyssey, except eighteen years afterwards, as narrated by Hera.

Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1) by Claire North

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I really, really liked this! Claire North’s writing style translated extremely well to retelling Greek mythology. The undercurrent of female rage and sorrow was pleasing and upsetting at the same time. It’s also darkly funny. I almost feel like I want to re-read this before I write a review so I can get my thoughts more in order, but nobody has time for that. Or, maybe some people do, but I don’t know who they are. I just feel like it was so well done! […]

Stop, Thief! That’s my color!

The Great Barrier Thief by Dr. Sue Pillans

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CBR15Passport from another country Dr. Sue Pillans (or Suzie Starfish) is an Aussie marine scientist and artist. She has created a story about the Great Barrier Reef and the loss of the color of the coral, aptly named The Great Barrier Thief. We learn t hat there is something called climate change and how it is human controlled. I word it that way as Pillans presents the idea as if she is the first to do so. And she tries a bit of humor to make […]

Important freckles

Emma’s Freckles by Sarah Wallace

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CBR15Passport book from other country (dream sequence, story is from/character is from): I am a proud of Irish decent gal (also I am a good American mix of other, but mostly I claim Irish, as we know a I-am-assuming-only-two great-grandparent came over from Ireland). So, when I saw Emma’s Freckles on Edelweiss, I was excited I did not have to wait until March 2023 to read. However, Sarah Wallace, you have a great idea, but I probably should have waited. You see, the idea of […]

A Duel With The Vampire Lord by Elise Kova – Married to Magic #3

A Duel With The Vampire Lord by Elise Kova

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*Audiobook Review* Floriane is the Forge Maiden of Hunter’s Hamlet. She holds this revered position because only she and her mother know how to smith silver into weapons to fight the Vampire raids on their town that happen every Full Moon. The novel starts on the night of the Blood Moon when every 500 years, the Vampire Lord can come through the veil and attack Hunter’s Hamlet. Legend tells that when the Vampire Lord is killed that the vampire attacks will stop, so Florian’s brother […]



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