Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

After the Hero’s Quest Ends

So This Is Ever After by FT Lukens

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After defeating the Vile One as the prophecy foretold, Arek has somehow ended up as king – and now he must find someone to wed if he is to survive his eighteenth birthday. And his first choice, his best friend and mage Matt, obviously doesn’t like him back. I was very excited by the idea of this book – the Chosen One having to settle down after fulfilling his prophecy and now actually getting on with the business of governing his newfound kingdom. However, though […]

The Nameless Ones

The Nameless Ones by John Connolly

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A nice installment in the Charlie Parker series though most of the book follows Angel and Louis as they go about avenging themselves of people who are friends with Louis. Readers will recall some of the characters since they appeared in the last book. This feels much tighter than prior Charlie Parker books. I think that’s because for once we don’t have to follow what feels like a 100 side characters all over the place with dubious movements. The book does slow at times to […]

Necromantically animated mice, revenant nannies, and toe bones as love tokens

Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney

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This book is incredibly indescribable. It’s macabre, joyful, and heartrending by turns and utterly unafraid to immerse the reader in an astonishingly detailed (and very queer) fantasy world, full of necromantically animated mice, revenant nannies, and toe bones as love tokens. Miscellaneous (Lanie) is the youngest of a long line of creatively named Stones in Liriat, a family with a colorful history and strong ties to the royals. Lanie is a necromancer, born with an allergy to violence. Given her parents’ jobs as royal executioner […]

“You will be safe as long as you stay away from Gallant”

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

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Victoria Schwab: “One of the tricky things about my books is that they’re never written for the same reader.  It’s a choice I made, and I stand by, but it also means that someone is invariably disappointed.  They might love Shades of Magic, but Vicious doesn’t work for them. They might adore Addie LaRue, but feel let down by Gallant.  The found themselves in the center of the reader spot light with one of my books, and then at the edges with another.  Some days […]

The Crow God Reborn remakes us all

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

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The tl:dr version of this review is: I could not put it down. It was so, so good. Very much a middle book, but a very entertaining middle book. Fevered Star starts with a murder. Far from the chaos in Tova, Lord Balam murders a thief so that he can walk through dreams.  Serapio wakes up with a wound he cannot heal and uncertain of who he is now, having expected to die at the Convergence. Naranpa wakes up in a tomb, back from the […]

What Would You Trade for Magic?

Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron

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Arrah is sixteen and she still has no magic. This is a huge embarrassment because her parents are both incredibly powerful witchdoctors, her mother the Ka-Priestess of the Almighty Temple. There is one thing that a desperate wannabe-witchdoctor can do to get magic: trade away years of their life in exchange. Something bad is coming, and Arrah and her family will be at the center of it. This is the first in a planned trilogy of novels, and there’s a whole lot going on. There […]



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