Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

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I am giving The Atlas Six 3.5 rounded up to 4 stars, because I struggled with my focus while reading it, but I also really wanted to know what happened. This was one of those books I thought about not finishing, so I read the end to see if I wanted to go there. I did. The ending made the beginning more interesting and made me keep picking up the book when my attention wandered. The problem is, my attention wandered a lot. Every ten […]

“I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.”

Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wild Chronicles, #1) by Robin Hobb

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This is the fourth series overall set in Robin Hobb’s Elderlings world, and the second that takes place in the Rain Wilds, with the liveships and dragons, after The Liveship Traders. I continue to be very, very glad I gave her another chance as an author. I loved revisiting this world and seeing characters from Liveship again, but here we get an all-new set of characters to follow for four books, including a dragon POV! Please do not read further if you haven’t read The […]

The Trouble with Peace is discontent, greed, and ambition

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

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The Trouble with Peace is the second book in Joe Abercrombie’s “Age of Madness” trilogy.  Here is my review for the first book, A Little Hatred .  Following immediately on the heels of events in the fist book, an uneasy peace has been established.  The Union crushed the rebellion in Valbek and the war in the North was brought to an end.  However, hardly anyone is happy about how things turned out. Despite two hundred hangings, the appetite for workers’ rights has only increased and other […]

My dad isn’t a vampire but my mom was (almost) a lumberjack

Lumberjackula by Mat Heagerty

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We know the story presented in Lumberjackula by Mat Heagerty: a child wants to please his parents by doing what they want him to do; however, he does not want to do exactly what either wants for him as neither choice is the right fit for him. He has a need, a need to DANCE! But when your mother is a lumberjack and your father a vampire, you must decide which side you are on. Or do you? Of course, there are lies (Jack tells […]

Fantasy with an impressively historical heart

Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay

Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay

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I’ve been working my way through Guy Gavriel Kay’s ouevre the past few years, and I’m shocked its taken me this long to get to the incredible duology that is Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors. I say duology but in truth they are two halves of a whole, which is dubbed the Sarantine Mosaic, and so I will review them together while avoiding spoilers as much as possible for both books. And I say shocked because I have a PhD in the political history […]

Four words: Possessed Nun Fights Demons

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

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I picked up Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson sort of by accident. I remember thinking the plot and general world sounded interesting. What I didn’t realise until after the fact was that I had read both of Rogerson’s previous novels and really enjoyed them. Of the three, Vespertine is definitely my favourite. It’s very much a standard YA fantasy plot, with a late-teens Chosen One discovering world-saving powers.  In this case, Artemisia is a seventeen-year-old Gray Sister, an order of nuns who are responsible for laying the dead […]



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