Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I’m so sorry, Malin. I have failed you with my terrible choices.

Kushiel's Chosen (Phedre's Trilogy, #2) by Jacqueline Carey

Kushiel's Avatar (Phedre's Trilogy, #3) by Jacqueline Carey

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This is a joint review for the last two books in this series. I am not rating either of the second two books in this trilogy, and here is a review length treatise on why that is not at all actually a review: Sometimes you make a mistake and then instead of admitting it, you just double down. Or, you know it’s a mistake and you double- and triple down anyway. This is both of those in one instance. I read the first book in […]

“The world might crumble, but Nikolai Lantsov would be holding up the ceiling with one hand and plucking a speck of dirt from his lapel with the other when it all went to ruin.”

Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

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This was actually a really great ending (for now?), except for this one thing that I hated. It also managed to change my mind about several things I thought I didn’t like about the last book, and several plot twists took me completely by surprise, both of which are quite the feats! This review won’t make sense, and I’m not even going to try to make it make sense, if you haven’t read the previous books in this series and Six of Crows. Just a […]

Very specific genre of older gay men romance, please give me all

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

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Pride continueth with the book which (I thought) closed out my Goodreads reading challenge (as it were, Goodreads did its thing and thought I’d read something twice). So herein is a genre, I feel: the soft shy (gay) man under the heel of The Man falls for the calm aloof quirky gay man who is being investigated by The Man. I felt so very many shades of The House in the Cerulean Sea while reading this, although I did have to double check to make sure that […]

Dragons and Humans Go Together like…Oil and Water

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

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Recommended by Ellesfena: https://cannonballread.com/2021/05/tess-of-the-road-ellesfena/ This makes for an interesting book to review. Yes, I think it’s a three star book even though I enjoyed it quite a bit and will definitely continue to read the second book in the duology (and then read the third book, which is in the same world but a different set of characters? Not entirely certain how they connect, and I don’t want to figure out because, ofc, spoilers). My main gripe is that I was very into the world […]

A series that peters out like a sad fart. Is that mean. If it is, let me know and I will change this title.

A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes, #4) by Sabaa Tahir

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I was so annoyed with this one by the end that I almost one-starred it, but I didn’t hate the first half, and honestly it’s not trash, and I usually save that one-star for true dislike or hatred. This really didn’t reach that level. To be clear, though, I also really did not like it. And it’s held up my review queue for frickin’ forever. And I liked the first book so much! Gah. Anyway, I didn’t like this as an ending, or really as […]

“Polka. Will Never. Die!”

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

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All right. Look. I don’t know how to talk about this book without it getting spoilery as heck, so if you are thinking you might read this book, then just skip this here review if you don’t want plot moments spoiled, things that made me gasp and giggle. Because I have got to talk about it. First things first, this review is going to be an ode to Butters, who essentially in this novel is elevated to the status of a relucant Watson to Dresden’s […]



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