Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Mors irrumat omnia. Death f*cks us all.”

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Apparently 2022 is the year I decided to become a Leigh Bardugo fangirl. So far I’ve read the Shadow and Bone trilogy as well as the Six of Crows duology from her Grishaverse, and now without even planning it I’ve read another Bardugo novel. I have literally no idea why or when I added this to my library  queue, other than that I first put it on hold before reading any of her other books, and I was probably half way through it before I […]

“I can’t give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you’d set it on fire.”

Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, #4) by Ilona Andrews

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The conflict in this one had some serious stakes, and the bad guys were seriously creepy/scary. The authors pair that really well with the relationship conflict Curran and Kate are having. This is probably the most action-packed of the books so far (and *action* packed, cough wink). The book opens with Kate being stood up on her first date with Curran. She doesn’t take it well and things go downhill from there. A standard call for help to a bar outside town turns into a […]

Chainsaw <3

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

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If someone had told me ten years ago that this book featured an emotionally turbulent teenaged boy hand-raising a baby female raven whom he has inexplicably named after a deadly tree-felling instrument, I would have read it a hell of a lot sooner. As it is, though, I’m glad I haven’t been spoiled for anything in this series. I really enjoyed my time with this first book, also my first book by this author. I think I had been avoiding it because I didn’t want […]

There are more words in the publisher description than the whole book

Baboon! by Pau

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Comment one: There are more words in the publisher description, or this review, then there are in the entire book of Baboon! by Pau/Pablo Marcos, as it is a wordless graphic novel. Comment two: I cannot say it better so word for word the publisher’s description: “After the death of its adopted leopard mother, an orphaned baboon wanders the wild in search of companionship and a sense of identity. Stumbling upon the troop of baboons from which it was originally stolen, the baboon falls in […]

Sing or dig?

Song of the Court by Katy Farina

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Song of the Court by Katy Farina is a cute story about being true to yourself. It might be a bit sugary sweet for some (probably mostly adults and/or older readers), but for the ages six to eight crowd, and if the reader is more “girly” in their tastes, it is right up their alley. There are princesses, music, gardening, best friends, and a lot more. The illustrations are bold, but not necessarily to extreme. Farina makes them in an anime format, that has hints […]

“You’ll find that what you can bear increases a great deal when you are not offered any other choice.”

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller

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Mistress Charm is a witch, maybe, and a madam certainly. She presides over Orchard House, a brothel/social club catering to Borengard’s most wealthy and powerful. The eponymous orchard is filled with bone trees, which fruit can be animated into living creatures. Mistress Charm is also mistress to the Emperor, who visits every Tuesday. When the Emperor is poisoned, he charges Charm with finding (and killing) those responsible for his death. This book is so densely plotted and detailed that it took me quite a while […]



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