Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

a very quick read (probably could have been one book, not that I’m complaining)

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

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Biggest takeaway is that you should definitely have this second booked queued up when you read the first in this series. Unlike some of her later work in this world that are comprised of standalone books with character cameos, the Clocktaur books are directly related and need to be read as such. And so we continue with our merry band of thieves/possessed former knights/misogynist scholars. As a reminder, they’ve been tasked with figuring out how to stop the armies of unstoppable Clocktaurs being built by […]

this one threw me down the rabbit hole

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

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T. Kingfisher’s books have been floating in and out of my TBR list for ages now. I have had a copy of Swordheart on my Kindle for ages now, but for some reason I never felt the urge to actually pick it up (virtually speaking, that is) and start reading it, even though it appears to be that rare unicorn–a standalone fantasy book. As it were, Swordheart isn’t really a standalone book, in so much as it takes place in the same universe as a number of her other […]

I hope this one gets as much love as the prior one

The Daughter of Dr. Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Moreno-Garcia strikes again, with a quirky book that is a bit more in line with Mexican Gothic in ~vibe~ but all on its own in tenor and plot. Set against the backdrop of the original tale of Dr. Moreau, a H.G. Wells invention who took one look at Dr. Frankenstein and said “hold my drink,” Moreno-Garcia invents for Dr. Moreau a daughter and a hacienda and more of a backstory, setting the tale of eerie hybrid animal inventions in a world of capitalism and greed and all […]

perhaps I have (agedout) of these books…

Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones

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I’m not sure what prompted me to finally pick this book up. For what it’s worth, while I liked Spirited Away and LOVE My Neighbor Totoro (there’s a stage version starting in October for which I immediately bought tickets), I’ve found some of Miyazaki’s other work to be a bit inscrutable. While watching Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in a pre-Japan-trip burst of energy, I…fell asleep. That’s not to say that the adaptation of a book has much to do with the book itself, and honestly I’m not sure […]

Neverland will never let go…

Hooked by A.C. Wise

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He remembers drowning. That single sentence, recurring often in Hooked, A.C. Wise’s sequel to Wendy, Darling, is the cornerstone of the existential dread that permeates the story. Described as dark fantasy I think this book edges deeper into horror, more even than the first book, which had moments of horror. This is a mean tale and a reinvention of Neverland and the Peter Pan mythos into something modern and terrifying at its core. What set Wendy, Darling apart from the pack of other modern takes on Peter […]

A Flash in the Pan

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

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CBR 14 Bingo: Font I do like that dripping red font, like it’s been chalked on. Also Lydia is a font of misery. Lydia is a vampire – has been all her life, since her mother turned her as an infant. Now she’s living on her own for the first time, and having trouble tracking down blood. Though I did not know there was a term for them, I have long been aware of the Sad, Strange, Miserable Women that populate the modern literary landscape. […]



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