Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I feel like I should have loved this book.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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Well, this is an awkward review to write. I know that this book is widely beloved, but I just…didn’t love it. It was FINE! I wasn’t mad at it! But something about it failed to sufficiently warm the cockles of my cold, dead heart. This is my second T.J. Klune, and I didn’t love Under the Whispering Door, either. But people told me that I would like this one more. And I did, just not a lot more. I actually feel like if I had […]

The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)

The Night Masquerade (Binti #3) by Nnedi Okorafor

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This was a great ending to the series. I honestly took a while to get back to it because I wanted to take my time. Okorafor does a great job of ending the series in a satisfying way. I will echo what some other readers said though which is that it felt like the story had several endings. I think it may have been better if it had ended differently too. Just because I think it would have made it a more “real” ending in […]

This is basically non-stop action.

Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7) by Ilona Andrews

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To be honest, I thought the confrontation that happens in this book wouldn’t happen until the last—or maybe the penultimate—book in the series. So I was refreshingly surprised! For most of this book I had no idea where it was going, and then it went there! And then after that it shook some things up that I didn’t think would ever have the possibility to get shaken up, but I’m glad they did. All of that sounds very vague, but this is a review of […]

The power of story

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

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I am going through a stressful time work wise and personal life, so have retreated to books i know i enjoy. I have certainly read this in the past, but it has probably been a decade.  In recent years i have been more interested in other strands of the Discworld than the witches. This is the second book in the witches line, or the third if you incorporate Granny Weatherwax in Equal Rites. It takes the three witches of Wyrd Sisters and mixes in stories […]

more Saint of Steel awesomeness :D

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

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Despite having blurbed these books to very many people as I was reading them, I kept finding myself pleasantly surprised by how much I liked them! In this second installment of the Saint of Steel series, still set in the same world of the Rat, we follow another of the former-paladins of the Saint of Steel, who is now deceased. For the first time, we have plot continuity–Istvhan is on the hunt for the strange clay head/golem/creepy men who terrorized us in the prior installation, […]

Give This The Miniseries Treatment!

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

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I was pretty excited to finally pick up and find the time to read A Master of Djinn. I had previously been delighted by P. Djèlí Clark’s alternative, magical steampunk 1910s Cairo. The setting is just so damned fun. The novellas I had read before Master of Djinn—The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo— were masterful in how they managed to be so descriptive for short form works, so was I curious as to how he would adapt an entire novel into this […]



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