Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This isn’t your Happy Days Cunninghams

John of the Night by Darryl Cunningham

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Recently I have read two books that gave me such a stomach ache for all the right and wrong reasons. One of those was John of the Night by Darryl Cunningham. I’ve no idea what I read. But I liked it. I think…. On one level things are really straight forward. We have a superhero-Christ like figure who might be the Anti-Christ, or at least might be working for them as John could be either hero, villain or some combination of the two. Then things […]

Three Heads Are Better Than One

The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell

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In this cozy-ish fantasy, cynical three-headed wild dragon Garrodigh pretends to be a downed “tamed” war dragon from Kardosa so he can get food and medical attention. This results in his acquiring the eternally cheerful rider Rania. Garrodigh is not a fan of humanity, primarily because he was formerly a four-headed dragon until human wars took the head named Lefty. The remaining heads are dealing with that trauma in different ways, with Centerhead being the POV character. The first half of the book was a […]

The title says it all

A Timid Lady was Turned into an Ugly Cat, but on the Verge of Fainting is Picked up by the Most Fearsome Military Duke, vol. 1 by otori, Ema Okadachi, Kou Kusaka

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I enjoy reading very specific and long titles, but I’ve never wanted to read beyond the name until I saw A Timid Lady was Turned into an Ugly Cat, but on the Verge of Fainting is Picked up by the Most Fearsome Military Duke by otori, Ema Okadachi, and Kou Kusaka. The title is very accurate. Marie is the oldest daughter of some viscount and doesn’t have much going for her. The story tells us she’s fat and plain – meaning she looked exactly like the […]

A truth will not cease to be true if you silence the speaker

Turn Right for Terror by James Cooper

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A few days ago, I read the novelette Turn Right for Terror by James Cooper on Reactor, which is a magazine I intend to read much more than I do. And I liked it a lot. While visiting her mother at a nursing home, Ellen sees an actress from her childhood comfort show. So she says hi. Turn Right at Terror was an episodic weird horror show from the 60s. At some point it’s described as Boschian. Rose Ward played a character named Bird Dog, […]

Give a girl a warning she’s going to be mind flipped…only I didn’t say flipped

Forevr by Brian Brown

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Recently I have read two books that have given me a gut punch for all the right and wrong reasons. Forevr (yes, that is how it is spelled) by Brian Brown, is one of them.  After reading Brown’s book I said to myself: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG (but I didn’t say Dang)! What the heck was that? I think I needed to take a dramamine pill before reading. I mean how do you process a thoughtful, dark, a bit sad, a bit too could happen, semi-humours ride through […]

Kink, Love, and Understanding

Mastery: Sex Wizards Book 2 by Alethea Faust

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This book has no right to be as good as it is. If Sex Wizards: Initiation introduced all of the rules of magic and forced Dominai to accept his power, Mastery shows his progression as he decides to improve his skills and learn how to slow down and let things come on their own. At the end of book 1, Olbric, Dominai’s closest friend and lover, was captured and tortured by two rogue wizards. Olbric and the other members of the crux were rescued, but […]



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