Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Superheroes to the…. rescue?

Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine

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Deep in the collection of my online reader links, Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine showed up and I read it via that manner. Currently available, I’m glad I read this book via the online way for this cute and silly superhero story. While there was nothing wrong with the book, everything was not for me and therefore, I did not need a physical copy to keep. It is great for the second grade on up, as it has all the elements younger […]

The Privilege of Time

Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue

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I really enjoyed this first book in a planned duology. At first it seems like a portal fantasy. Margo is heading to a boarding school in Ireland, when all of a sudden the train she is on changes, and she finds herself in a different world and in the company of salesman Moon. Chapters alternate POVs between Margo and Moon. In this reality, there are different worlds that all have different hours in a day, and people age faster as the day length shortens. The […]

When Misfits Go Exploring

The Marsh Fellows by Anna-Laura Sullivan

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Once upon a time a young girl liked to read. She grew up to be an adult (physically) who liked to read. And one day, due to an email she received saying, “Sign up for a chance to win these books” she did. And she won several online reader copies from IDW Comics & Entertainment and Top Shelf Productions. She was excited. Finally a lunchtime came where she could start reading. She was not sure which one to start with, but since one book had […]

Not for me

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

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So far, my big plan to read a bunch of dark academia this year isn’t really working out for me (other than The Raven Scholar). I didn’t really like this book. Galadriel (El for short) is a junior at a boarding school for teens with magical powers. The idea behind the school (called the Scholomance) was to keep the students safe from “mals” (maleficaria) which like to eat magical humans and are particularly attracted to teens rather than children or adults. Unfortunately, long ago the defensive mechanisms […]

“The fun is in the taking. Why haven’t you killed the Hunter?”

The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty

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In one of my online groups, folks started talking about Reena McCarty’s The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains. Being currently poor, I put it on hold at my library. I had some expectations based on the title, but I quickly learned that Faerie Bargains is more than faerie adventures but with lawyers and insurance companies. For one thing, the writing is gorgeously descriptive making the reading experience feel lush. I could see the world around Poppy. The tree’s roots arched up over the water, an […]

Damon Salvatore and gladiators

We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark

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I have started a few books in the last month or two that I fully intend to finish but they aren’t quite holding my attention and I keep starting new books rather than going back to them. So I feel like I have been struggling to get through novels but then I look back over my recent reads and realize, it’s not been that bad. Anyway, I was both interested in this book and skeptical because sometimes the booktok hype is just too much. However, […]



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