Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sequel-itis

Protect the Prince by Jennifer Estep

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Evie may have killed her cousin and become queen of Bellona, but her troubles are far from over. Morta continues to threaten her kingdom, and now she must make peace with Sully’s father to strengthen themselves against the enemy. There’s a mystery of sorts as Evie must figure out the culprit behind a series of assassination attempts. Using her mysterious powers and her wits, she works to solve the mystery quite quickly, and though I was able to guess the killer ahead of her I […]

Tensions building

The King's Beast vol. 5 by Rei Toma

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Volume 5 of The King’s Beast is starting to build up all the tensions; Rangetsu realizes she likes her Prince when he thinks she’s a guy body-guard, she finds out that the attendant Taihaku knows what she is but might be willing to help her keep the secret until she can avenge her brother’s murder, there’s a strong hint who may have been responsible although it’s really not that surprising, one of the other Princes may be onto Rangetsu as well, and Prince Tenyou is […]

Meh Valentine’s Reading

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

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I decided to do some Valentine’s Day reading; I figured A Marvellous Light might be a safer bet than usual (I’m not a romance person) because a writer of a romantic novel that I did like had a positive blurb on the back. The basic premise has a lot of familiar elements: two people are forced to work together, don’t exactly get along, are forced into an investigation (how to cure Robin’s curse, and what happened to Robin’s predecessor who seems to have gone missing), […]

The Time of Contempt

The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

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This is book two in the main series of Witcher books. What’s still fascinating in this series to me is how much the Watcher, Geralt of Rivia, does not factor into the book. Because I’ve played Witcher 3 and in the game he’s not only the main character, but you’re literally playing as him, this has a little disconnect with the books. The game does intimate repeatedly that the Witcher is a kind of free-lance or free agent, and that larger events are always happening […]

World’s End

World's End by Neil Gaiman

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This was by no means bad, (I gave it 4 stars) but compared to the other volumes it just felt like it was missing something. The stories were all over the place and some of the text was too hard for me to read. I gave up on a few panels and just focused on the illustrations. “World’s End” follows a pair of colleagues (Brant and Charlene) who get in a car accident on their way to Chicago. Finding themselves in the middle of a […]

Brief Lives

Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman

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This was very good. We follow Dream and Delirium as they go off and try to find their lost brother, Destruction. But it also nicely ties up the story of Orpheus. Brief Lives in this one definitely seems to not only refer to humans, but also to the Endless themselves. “Brief Lives” has Delirium coming more undone than usual and is determined to find Destruction. She thinks if she can find him, he can come back to the family and things will be better. I […]



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