Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I devoured this.” V. E. Schwab

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

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As a book lover, I couldn’t resist reading something called The Book Eaters. Especially with the review quote from V. E. Schwab (whom I love) “I devoured this.” Sunyi Dean’s novel is set in a dark fantasy world where there are a group of book eaters who are not human, but instead subside by eating books, which gives them the knowledge in the book. There are also mind eaters who instead eat human brains and gain knowledge that way. Devon is a princess from one […]

A Visit With An Old Friend You’ve Outgrown a Little

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

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CBR14Bingo: Bodies (dead bodies, aliens inhabiting human bodies, people going from cyberspace into a body for the first time, etc.) I was obsessed with Neil Gaiman’s work from high school through college and then burned out and haven’t read anything by him in probably 10 years, so when I saw this in the bookstore I initially didn’t think I was going to get it. But when I picked it up and started reading the first story, I remembered that I liked that one, and it […]

Baby’s first Patricia Briggs.

Masques (Aralorn, #1) by Patricia Briggs

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This is sort of a deceptive three stars, because I really liked the story and the characters, but the pacing is so weird, and the book isn’t fleshed out enough. Also, I did read the updated and expanded version, but I’m attaching this review to the cheesier, older, more colorful original cover because I like it better. It’s going to annoy me going forward in the series (which I will be doing!) that the other books won’t match, because even though this book was published […]

Perfect Halloween Read

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

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I am part of a YA for everyone book group at my local library. The organizer tries to pick books that fit the time of year, so for October, Halloween, we are reading Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. I had no idea what this book was about, which is sometimes a great way to be pleasantly surprised.  Well, I really liked this book, it was such a fun ghost story. Yadriel is a trans teen who is trying to become a brujo. His Latinix family […]

Lumbersnacks Ahead

Owen by Elle M Drew

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Elle M. Drew has written a novel for which the plus size community has been yearning. OWEN is about a plus size female named Tess who loves sex and loves her body. Her weight is not something that needs to be overcome for her to find happiness. She has moved to a tiny, remote mountain town to do some soul searching at the encouragement of her cousin. Owen is an enormous bear of a man. I mean that quite literally since he’s a bear shifter. […]

I like you just the way you are

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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This is one of the sweetest stories I’ve ever read. It’s about difference, exclusion, prejudice, unconventional families, the magic of love and inclusion, which all sounds lovely and perhaps a bit cliché. The thing is, author TJ Klune writes about these topics in a way that is sometimes surprising and always effective. Klune has created a world in which magic and “monsters” exist, and those children who show signs of having magic are separated from the rest of society and put in orphanages run by […]



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