Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Brooding heirs, a castle, a ghost, a bad@ss maid, and a kick@ss not-so-damsel in distress

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity

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The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor graphic novel is funny, sweet, goofy, serious and a light read. There is a lot going on and it is also just a simple story of adventure. IT is diverse without being forceful about it, though Girl Power is in your face (but done with love and humor). Maybe it will not become a classic, but Shaenon K. Garrity will be a writer to look out for. I cannot wait to find more goodies by them. Do I smell […]

“I’ve gone mad. The hedgehog was probably a warning sign. The saints only know what I’ve really got in my pocket.”

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

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Cannonball introduced me to T. Kingfisher, and I introduced my mom, and now she is obsessed. She’s read everything her interlibrary loan can get her, and now she’s ordering them off the internet. I stole this one from her while I was visiting this month before she’s even had a chance to read it! It’s absolutely marvelous. I couldn’t help but compare Rhea to Tiffany Aching, as she’s a teenage girl dumped into magical mayhem against her will, but this feels a bit darker. Though […]

Different Scandals in Different Places

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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Bingo 11: Scandal A Strange and Stubborn Endurance opens with a scandal of sorts (or at least the inciting incident that gets the plot going does), and there’s a fear and use of gossip that gets brought up and/or used off and on throughout the story. There is a content warning at the beginning about the scandal which involves on-page sexual violence as well as self-harm and suicidal ideation; side note, I’m a little surprised that the one murder that does succeed before the final […]

Who-dunnit and who are these people?

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

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Bingo 10: Questions One main question of the Thara Celehar novellas is “who dunnit?’ as well as ‘why’, and that’s true of The Grief of Stones too, but also, there’s a bit of a twist about 2/3 of the way through which also adds “what will {x} do now?” Being a Witness for the Dead, someone who can see the final thoughts or images of someone who has died, it makes sense that Celehar would be involved in solving murders, as he is here, but […]

Warrior frogs apparently isn’t enough to be interesting

Kulipari #1 by Trevor Pryce

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BINGO – Shadow Burnu is a member of the Kulipari, an elite group of frog warriors. He is tasked with finding and securing a set of scrolls that will hopefully give the frogs that advantage over their years long conflict with the reptiles. His goal is to sneak around using stealth to gather information about the scroll’s whereabouts as per his training, but that plan is quickly thwarted. The story utilizes alternating time jumps between the past when Burnu is training with his cohort of […]

For my friend Petra, without whom I would not be reading this series

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

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  Petra was my dear friend and a dyed in the wool book nerd. She passed away this past November and I miss her terribly. I think of her any time I read one of these books because she recommended the first one and I’m sad that she’s not reading the series with me. The Grief of Stones is the third book in the Goblin Emperor series and the second book in The Cemeteries of Amalo series by Katherine Addison. The Cemeteries series follows Celehar, […]



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