Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Do you have sadness in your heart for the world that can never be & sensible shoes? You’ve got weltschmerz.” *

Roxy by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

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I don’t think I’ve ever positively reviewed a book I haven’t finished, but this here’s going to be the first. Because I’m the kind of person who can’t rewatch the Scott’s Tots episode of The Office, and who cringes just thinking about that one scene in On His Way to the Wedding (by Julia Quinn: Spoiler for a Bridgerton book ahead) when Gregory professes his love in front of all of London, and … it does not go well.  I just sometimes get to a point […]

OMGs!

Oh My Gods! Volume 1 by Stephanie Cooke and Insha Fitzpatrick

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Did you think Percy Jackson was a bit stiff? No sense of humor? Too focused on Greek Gods and Goddesses as old fuddy duddies? Then you need Oh My Gods! Volume 1. Stephanie Cooke and Insha Fitzpatrick created a graphic novel that has a little fun while, actually giving you a little about the Greek Gods and Goddesses of mythology. Only, this time they are real, and most are going to school on Mt. Olympus. When Karen’s mother has an opportunity to have her dream […]

Badda$$ princess part She-Ra, part Barbie Princess and part Hermione Granger.

Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale

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Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld had several of my favorite things for a cover: the color of purple (amethyst), fun looking characters and it looked like it would be a light read. But most importantly, it was by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale. And you really cannot go wrong with them. However, this growing up story has several missing chunks of the learning to be a better person part of the story. We see the Princess Amaya of the Amethyst kingdom going from extremely powerful with […]

The Wheel of Time: Book 13 (review IX): I’m honestly too tired to string three thoughts together. This is my speed round review!

Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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Years ago, I had a brief but memorable relationship with a woman. It ended fairly amicably. Some years later we reconnected, and I was initially reminded of the good times. All those memories came flooding back, and it was exciting catching up on the years we’d been apart. And then, flushed with the realization that we ended it for a reason, I remembered how little I actually liked her. The wind was completely removed from my sails, and I limped back to safer waters. This […]

A five star trilogy.

Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man, #3) by Robin Hobb

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I can’t even tell you how glad I am that I gave Robin Hobb’s books another chance. It was totally worth it just for this trilogy alone. I don’t even know if I’ve had a turnaround this notable on a fictional character before. After I finished the first Fitz trilogy, I thought I was done, that her writing was not for me, and that Fitz’s story was definitely one that just didn’t resonate with me. And then on a whim years later I decided to […]

Not a human to be seen in this weird but good other world fantasy from the creator of Murderbot.

The Cloud Roads (The Books of the Raksura, #1) by Martha Wells

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I’ve been wanting to try out Martha Wells’ other books that came before Murderbot for a while now, and I finally checked this one out of the library. I had no idea what to expect going in, and I hadn’t even read the blurb. And I liked it! And it was weird. In a good way. This book takes place on another world, nary a human in sight. The world is populated by “groundlings,” basically wingless humanoid peoples, and creatures of various evolutionary origins who […]



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