Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This book took me ten months to finish (double bingo)

Monstress, vol 1: The Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda

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CBR14 Bingo: Monster (there are several monsters in this story, both humanoid and not) Official book description: Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900’s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. So total honesty here. […]

“Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.”

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

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CBR14 Bingo: Bird (bird in the title, bird on the cover, love interest turns into a bird, there are so many birds in this story) Isobel lives in a little town where it’s always summer. This is because her town is just on the border of the Faerie lands, and most of the people who live there are valued by the Fair folk because of their Craft (anything that basically involves creating something, be it building, sewing, baking, cooking, or painting), acts that the Fey […]

“Personally I felt I’d had far too many feelings lately and would have liked to repress a lot of them”. Bingo #5!

The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik

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CBR14 Bingo: “New” – The Golden Enclaves is the new book in the Scholomance trilogy. This is a spoiler free review.  What started in A Deadly Education, and continued in The Last Graduate, is now concluded in The Golden Enclaves.  This series immediately grabbed me from the get go.  Cantankerous El quickly found a place in my heart, along with her companions.  Their harrowing adventures had me constantly engaged.  I found the world setting and magic system fascinating.  Novik kept me continuously curious about the workings […]

Lots of A Court of Thorns and Roses reviews (3.5 to be exact)

A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Thorns and Roses #2 by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Thorns and Roses #3 by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight, A Court of Thorns and Roses #3.1 by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Silver Flames, A Court of Thorns and Roses #4 by Sarah J. Maas

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Book #2: So, I mostly liked the first book a lot. Wow, that wasn’t a very ringing endorsement. Let’s try it again. The first book pissed me off at the beginning, then got better, then bad stuff happened, and then it all worked out in the end. I can’t say I loved it, but I wanted to see what happened next, so that’s a plus. FYI – spoilers abound At the end of the first book, Feyre dies saving all of fae kind. The 7 […]

A Surprise, to Be Sure, but a Welcome One

The Sandman Act II (Audio Production) by Neil Gaiman; Dick Maggs

The Sandman Act III (Audio Production) by Neil Gaiman; Dick Maggs

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As I admitted during my review of The Sandman Act I, I am aware that these productions are really pushing the limits of what an audiobook is. But since they are such close adaptions of the original graphic novels, and are tied together with heavy use of a narrator (Gaiman himself), I think it is fair to say that they still count.  I loved Act I very much, but I really didn’t get around to listening to Act II until earlier this year, as part […]

“You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.” (Bingo)

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

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CBR14 Bingo: Time (the whole book is about time travel to different points in Earth’s history) Dr. Madeleine “Max” Maxwell is recruited by the seemingly rather mundane St. Mary’s Institute of History, only to discover that they are actually a secret organisation that time travels to various points in history, for research purposes. Obviously, you can’t just throw anyone into a time machine and have at it, so there’s a lot of training. Then there’s the fact that time travel is rather dangerous, and she […]



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