Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“kidnapped nuns. And a wagonload of barrels and a man obsessed with oak trees. The gods are being more inscrutable than usual.”

Paladin's Strength by T Kingfisher

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The day Kingfisher comes out with a book I don’t love will be a sad day indeed, but it is not this day. Here’s the thing. KJ Charles reviewed this book over on goodreads and how do you outdo a reviewer like that? So don’t read this review. If you must read a review, read Charles’, and if you’ve read the first book, just dive in knowing you’ll have a blast and then come back and gush in the comments. Plot: Istvhan, another of the […]

“I am the one thing you can never kill. I am hope.”

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

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I’m taking a break from my Diana Wynne Jones challenge to read different fantasy. Thanks to my wonderful Book Exchange partner, I was gifted the full Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson and have been chomping at the bit to dig into it. I lost a lot of sleep over this book, it was just too good to only read for a half hour before bed, and as dense and heavy as Sanderson often is, this book blew by. Mistborn introduces us to the Final Empire, a pseudo […]

The Sandman: Overture

The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman

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Dream’s family is so messed up. I really wish I could just leave that as my review, but dang. We get to see Dream’s Father and Mother in this one. We also get to see Dream’s messed up siblings, Desire, Destiny, Delirium, Despair, Destruction, and Death as well. And we get to see some new characters such as Hope I was fascinated by. “The Sandman: Overture” is book #0 in the series. When I bought the first 5 books eons ago, I never got this […]

A Game of You

A Game of You by Neil Gaiman

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So I cried while reading the last pages of this graphic novel. Wanda and Barbie. Sigh. I don’t even know what to say. “A game of You” follows Barbie who is doing whatever she can to not go to sleep. And we see the way the world gets wrecked when she does and the fallout for the women who live in the building with her (Foxglove and Hazel) a witch (Thessaly) and her best friend Wanda. This graphic novel really does not focus too much […]

Dark Fairies, Light Fairies, and Dublin Adventures

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

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The first novel in the long-running Fever series from Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever introduces us to the world of MacKayla “Mac” Lane. A naive young woman from small-town Georgia, Mac leaves her safe home to travel to Dublin after her older sister is murdered there while studying abroad at Trinity College. Arriving in Dublin, Mac is shocked to learn that her sister has been behaving strangely – not attending classes, avoiding friends, losing weight, and generally acting out of character. On the way home from her sister’s […]

“No one had ever held my hand before. Somehow people in Texoma always needed their hands free. I found it a little hot, a little sweaty, and since we were yoked we had to match our pace. But it made me feel good.”

A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose #2) by Charlaine Harris

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Charlaine Harris (she of the Tru Blood series) knows how to write a breezy entertaining romp, not quite a “can’t put down” page-turner, but a book you are happy to go back into in a world that has interesting magical elements. Her characters can be a bit wooden and two-dimensional, but synonyms for that could be familiar and comforting. Her writing is straightforward and easy to read, with violence and a bit of sexy sprinkled throughout, the type of book that I would qualify as […]



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