Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Rain Wild Chronicles – Ragtag band of misfits and dragons find a home

The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

City of Dragons by Robin Hobb

Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb

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  CBR13 Bingo (in order) – Travel, The Wilds, Cityscape, Home I’ve read the other books in Robin Hobbs interlinked series many times, and the Farseer Trilogy is one of my favourite alltime reads.  But for some reason I’d passed over the Rain Wild Chronicles until now.  Maybe I’d heard it was a weaker link in the chain?  If so, I heard right.  The characters lack the depth and humanity I expect from Hobb, and were too neatly paired off by the series end.  Nothing […]

“They are not demons, not devils . . . Worse than that. They are people.”

The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher, #4) by Andrzej Sapkowski

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 27/30 This series is so weird. I’m fairly certain I have started a review of one of these books before with that exact same sentence. I think I meant it more positively on that one. I am up and down, up and down with these books. One I’ll be obsessed and inhale it, and the next will be a slog that doesn’t catch my attention. This one was unfortunately mostly the second thing for me, although I still liked […]

“He will say less than he means, and conceal more than he reveals.”

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

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Don’t loan me books. I am overwhelmed by them, and my guilt at holding onto your artifact will not affect my scattered method of attacking my TBR. I have had this book for twelve years. I am a bad book friend! But it was worth the wait? The Book of Lost Things is about David, a twelve-year-old in WWII-era England who has recently lost his mother.  His father remarries, and his new wife is kind, but David cannot help but resent her, and this resentment […]

All you need is love?

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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Linus is a caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He visits orphanages to make sure everything is in order and that the kids who are staying there are doing ok. His life is monotonous and drab, bureaucratic even. One day, he gets a special assignment by the Department’s Extremely Upper Management. He gets sent to the island of Marsyas, where the orphanage there is home to some very special kids who are cared for by a very special man. One third into […]

Abracadabra and Up Up and Away to adventure!

Cat & Cat V01 Adventures The Quest for Snacks by Susie Yi

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cbr13bingo Travel (they travel to a magical world and I’d like to see a mermaid-cat, a fairy bunny and a lava dog!) “Dear Representative of this particular company. Would you be so kind as to send me these three reader copies of these books? Of course, if you cannot I would prefer book X as my first choice.” Or something like that was the email I sent to a rep of a publisher. I had asked for three books. And Cat & Cat V01 Adventures […]

The Greek Gods: Soap Opera 101

Olympians V01 Zeus: King of the Gods by George O’Connor

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 cbr13bingo Mythic I have been on the fence about this series, Olympians by George O’Connor since I first saw them. I thought, “Another Greek myth book?” The graphic novel aspect also made me cautious about reading/looking into it. But when I finally read this first book, Olympians V01 Zeus: King of the Gods, I realized there was some “good stuff” there. There are a few holes (such as a bad sex joke) and of course, it is not extensive, but it is pleasant and covered […]



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