Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

There are different kinds of darkness.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

by Leave a Comment

CBR BINGO: Cityscape square (bottom left corner) Slammed it shut and immediately requested the third book in this series from the library. May have murmured “so, so, good” under my breath first. I’d really just like to leave it there, but we have that pesky 250 word obligation so, here goes. This is the second book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series, so if you haven’t read that yet, by all means DO. This will get a smidge spoiler-y from this point on. In order to break a […]

Your senses are your greatest enemies; they will be waiting to betray you.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

by Leave a Comment

CBR 13 BINGO: Flora square (along top and right edge of cover) Somehow I missed this one when it was favorably (and unfavorably) reviewed a while back, but I follow some Instagram accounts that were raving about this series so I got curious. After a war between human mortals and faeries, the world is split. A wall is erected and humans are pushed behind it into the southlands. Generations of stories about powerful fae creatures that enslave, murder, and eat humans are handed down. Occasionally even stories […]

What do you call a guilty pleasure you don’t enjoy?

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer Armentrout

by 6 Comments

This series has some weird hold on me. I don’t believe in finishing things I don’t enjoy. I am proud of my DNFs. I do not believe that guilty pleasures are a thing – either enjoy a thing or don’t. This is not a completionist herculean task and I am not ashamed of reading them. I just don’t understand it. I do not like these books. I find the plot painfully predictable, the characters unbelievably stupid, dramatic when it makes no sense and totally chill […]

You just remember what your old pal said (Girl), you’ve got a friend in me

Making Friends V01 by Kristen Gudsnuk

by Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo Shelfie (granted, not my shelf, but it is on a shelf at a place I call mine.) If making friends was as easy as it was in Making Friends V01 by Kristen Gudsnuk, most of us would never have to be friendless again. Of course, one would have to have some mad skills in drawing to make sure stick figures were not wandering around. Which our main character, Dany, has. Maybe just a little too good! How do you make a friend? For Dany […]

Please note you have seen this author before, just under different names. But know that they still love their minions who read their novels. 

Into the Real by Z Brewer

by Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo They/She/He Into the Real fits the They/She/He category on at least two levels. First, Z Brewer goes by they/them. They have had a journey of self-discovery since their Vladimir Todd series days to this most recent novel. (I am currently reading another book by them that came before this with another name).  And due to the main character, Quinn, taking a journeying to find their own gender identity, eventually learning the word genderqueer, also allows it to fit this category. When Quinn finds themselves bouncing […]

I need cute kittens, bunny, ice cream and my fuzzy blanket after reading this manga graphic novel!

Beast Complex Volume One by Paru Itagaki

by Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo Cityscape What a freaking, fracked up, screwed up ride! (only I didn’t say freaking or fracked). I picked this as the Cityscape block as you see the dirty city behind the camel and wolf on the cover. And the stories are set in this same city and in a boarding school within that city. The cover story is the reason I give this book a 3 and not 4 as I was planning after the first few stories. That story made me want to […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo