Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“When you are handed a gift, you do not squander it on insignificant dickheads.”

Best Knight Ever (Kinda Fairytale #4) by Cassandra Gannon

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Yes, you’re going to have to get past the title and the cover, but I promise you, it’s worth it. Plot: Trystan, the gryphon we met in the Kingpin of Camelot, has been tasked with a mission – find Guinevere’s irritating best friend, who was banished some years ago for betraying King Uther (Arthur’s dad). Galahad is described as perfect in every way. He is kind and generous and brilliant and the best at literally everything he’s ever made any effort at, so it’s perhaps […]

Much Beloved but Not by me

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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I’ll just say this up front: I do not get the hype around this series. I realize that I am not the original target audience (it’s dark YA fantasy), and that Six of Crows is not the original introduction to the Grishaverse, it’s a side-series. That said, I’m kind of wondering about the Netflix show Shadow and Bone because from the sound of it, if you’ve read the books, you don’t like the series, but I haven’t read (most of) the books, so maybe? Actually […]

Too many mortals, not enough gods to kill

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

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Melora, who goes by Lore, is the last mortal member of the House of Perseus. Ever since her family was murdered at the hand of one of the other Houses, Lore has tried and tried to remove herself from her the agon, a time when all of the Greek gods and goddesses become mortal for a week and are hunted by the members of other Houses that stem from other Greek heroes. This is a deadly week, as any mortal who kills a god assumes […]

A book I asked, “Why that was there?” (A lot.) But learned as I read.

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

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When I first looked at When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey, I immediately put it down again. I was not in the mood for witches, teen girl drama or magic. But when I found it sometime later, I thought, oh why not? Not like I had to finish. Yet, I would go onto finish, even with misgivings. There is a slow beginning to this teen novel. In fact, the whole pace of the story can be slow with a rushed and mostly incomplete, unsatisfying […]

“Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I’m good to myself and my immediate circle.”

Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3) by Andrzej Sapkowski

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This series is so weird. This book doesn’t really have a beginning, middle, or end. Geralt spends the whole time hiding his feelings and being mad that people like him and want to help him. They spend the whole book on a fruitless quest. At one point we spend forty pages with all the characters getting drunk off weird mandrake root brew and chit-chatting, no forward plot movement at all. The main conflict of the book has no resolution, and the resolution that we are […]

Perfect summer anthology for the anti-romance beach reader

Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

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My summer reading has already been cut short by longer days, and the end of restrictions meaning I want to DO something. (Not that reading isn’t doing something, but I meant exercising my body more than mind). With that in mind, one of my favourite authors, Kelley Armstrong has a couple of anthologies of her short stories hanging around. I had read the entire ‘Otherworld’ series but hadn’t gotten through the anthologies yet. This book in particular has some stories of secondary characters from Otherworld […]



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