Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A series of books that I personally did not enjoy

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

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Is this some wild teen PSA? ^^ this the original review that I wrote in mild exasperation after reading this book. I actually had this on an older TBR that I never got around to finishing, so in the middle of waiting for some new books to load I was more than happy to finally pick it up. But GOOD LORD this book is just one heavy handed lesson in what happens when you do [insert any number of things that they told you not […]

Grouping two more re-reads together, with no thematic connection

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase

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Re-read, October 2022: I cannot fully explain why I had the need to re-read this novel, the start of a promising but eventually disappointing series of alt-history books that asked the question, what if Napoleonic wars but also dragons? A decent part was this intense desire to re-read the part of the novel where Laurence realizes that a number of dragons that the UK relies upon for its aerial might insist on having female captains, and is forced to reconcile that fact with his posh […]

Read too early for Halloween, but the review is in December so who’s counting

The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling

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This book isn’t quite as fun as the prior in the same series, but I’m glad to see how far Sterling can stretch the premise of her little universe. Here, we follow the cousin of Vivienne of The Ex Hex fame (now happily wifed up with Rhys Penhallow) (or maybe not wifed, but definitely partnered). Gwyn is happy running her quirky witchy store in Graves Glen, the former seat of power of the Penhallow family. Who shows up but another Welsh brother, and since this is Romanlandia, they only […]

I just couldn’t do it anymore.

The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry, #2) by Guy Gavriel Kay

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I have done something now that I almost never do, and that is give up on a fantasy series. There is only one more book in The Fionavar Tapestry for me to read, and it’s not even that long compared to the books I’m used to tackling in this genre, but I just couldn’t do it anymore. The idea of reading that book filled me with dread and despair. When I was reading the first book in this series, even with how much the genre […]

Fabulous sci-fi saving the world

The Ultra-Fabulous Glitter Squadron Save the World Again by A.C. Wise

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This was a fun read, but hard to describe.  So i took a look at the publisher and this is a book suggested  when one chooses “I want to read something that’s genderqueer…” .  And that is fair. This is a collection of stories and vignettes about how each of the members of the ultra-fabulous glitter squadron came to be part of the group and some of the challenges they have faced.  While it is a collection of stories, they do lead to a finale […]

The Interwebs were correct – these books are great

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna

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Once again, I have done as told by the Interwebs, but failed to record which website recommended it.  This was either Vulture or Pajiba, I’d wager.  What an excellent recommendation.  It should be required reading for my whole family (but they never do as they’re told). We meet Deka in the Gilded Ones on the day of her purity test – when all of-age girls are bled to make sure they bleed red, not gold.  If this sounds like some solid gold bullshit to you, […]



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