Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Librarian Hero Story Begins!

A Winter’s Promise: The Mirror Visitor Book 1 by Christelle Dabos

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Cbr14bingo Cold A Winter’s Promise is the first book in a YA quartet by French author Christelle Dabos. It’s 490 pages long, and I tore through it within a few days. Book #2 is already queued up and I’m hoping that the storytelling continues to keep me hooked in. Dabos has created a steampunk world that has been divided not just politically and culturally, but also physically due to a “rupture.” Long in the past, a formerly unified planet broke up into different planets or […]

Soul Taken

Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs

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Well. I have been reading about Mercy Thompson for a really long time. The series has its highs and its lows. It felt like the last few books were really in the lows. I couldn’t even take comfort in the Alpha & Omega books anymore because it just felt we were reading the same plot repeatedly. But this one finally allows Mercy and Adam to just be. To just be happy. To just be in love. To just be a team. To just have the […]

In Pursuit of Destiny and Desire

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

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I felt like a bit of a dumb-arse after picking up She Who Became the Sun. I don’t know if it was just me stumbling around blindly perhaps, but it took me a good long time to realise that the this book was a reimagining of the Ming Dynasty’s rise to power. The ebook version of the book didn’t have a blurb on the back cover, true, and that might have helped. But it did have a map of  north east of China on one […]

One MFing Superhero and a (swear) long review

M.O.M.: Mother of Madness, Volume 1 by Emilia Clarke and Marguerite Bennett

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I am glad that I did not realize who Emilia Clarke is before I read this book. If you have been under a rock (like I obviously have) she is an actress from Game of Thrones (at least I have heard of that). The why of that is I am a snob when it comes to celebrity books (not completely convinced of quality to be blunt). Even with a psychedelic cover that made me a bit stomach upset, I am glad I gave this graphic […]

Finally cuttin’ away at these reviews

Chainsaw Man, Volume 2 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Chainsaw Man, Volume 3 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Chainsaw Man, Volume 4 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Chainsaw Man, Volume 5 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Chainsaw Man, Volume 6 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

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Here goes with my super-belated reviews of Chainsaw Man. I’ve never gotten in on the ground floor with a manga before. Actually, I’ve only ever read I think one other manga, Death Note, and that was after having watched the television series first. I’d avoided manga and anime (unless you count the likes of Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon when I was a child) for much of high school due to knowing too well the type who traded in them from my time taking […]

done with this world for now :(

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

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While I enjoyed this last entry in the Saint of Steel series (especially because we do see our favorites from the prior two books!), in a nutshell I think it suffered from 1) being more of a standalone story (with the smooth skin man issue being solved in the prior novel) and 2) the moral of the story overshadowing the main plot as well. In this novel, we have the story of Gay Galen, who knows for a sure 1000% fact that he doesn’t want […]



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