Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

one of my favorite books of all time (favorite?), finally re-read

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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Re-read August 2022: why yes, despite the fact that I frequently call this one of my favorite books, I haven’t re-read it ever. Don’t get me wrong–I think I’ve read parts of it over and over (Miryem and the vaults of silver, in particular) but never the full book end to end. Let’s call a spade a spade: I was scared! What if it didn’t hold up to my prior review? Written in December 2018, in my defense, almost a year (!) before JKR came out […]

Complain about lack of standalone fantasy and then complain when I find one

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

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Unfairly to this book, while I enjoyed the it as a standalone novel (that rare unicorn in the fantasy world), I found myself constantly wishing I was back in The World of the White Rat! I really hope that Kingfisher writes more in that universe, though. It’s the rare sort of one that has both enough scope for imagination but doesn’t require you to pull out your colored pens and post it notes to keep a track of a fictional family free more closely than […]

thank you to my friend Evin

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

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Another “why did I wait so long??” book, courtesy of the Evanescent Evin! I do tend to pithily categorize any number of books as Tamora Pierce but with/for x, but it’s always meant as a true compliment to a woman who I think was doing the work many years before it became hip to do so. So in that vein, I think that these books are Tamora Piece-esque in their jumble of characters and vague setting, but that’s probably where the comparison grinds to a […]

Pieces of Silver: A return to the Folly

Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch

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Amongst Our Weapons is the 9th full length novel in the Rivers of London series and as per usual is definitely not the place to start if you haven’t read any of the books yet. (If you haven’t they are very good so head back to book 1 and pick it up!). And if you’re wondering why I’ve titled this review Pieces of Silver it’s because I won of the 100 celebratory coins minted for the publication of this book 🙂 We are once again […]

They’ve been crushing for centuries.

Punderworld Volume 1 by Linda Sejic

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There are several Hades and Persephone stories, and Punderworld Volume 1 might not be as popular as others, but (not having read the others) I would say it seems equally fun. Linda Sejic seems to have made a lighter take on things, but still deals with a darker side of the Greek mythos. Dealing with life and death and how they are part of the same coin, love (and its ups and downs and flaming chariots), family and more this relatable tale makes you forget […]

A little disappointed in this one.

The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2) by Namina Forna

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I’ve been going back and forth, and then back and forth again over whether to round this up to four or down to three stars. I think I’m settling on three stars because the plot made my head swim, and not in a good way. No one but Deka, Ixa, and perhaps Britta get significant development, so I had very little incentive to actually remember who any of them were, which didn’t help with my confusion. This is very different from the first book, where […]



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