Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My 2,000th Review!

The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2) by Seth Dickinson

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I should say, it’s my 2,000th review written, not posted, since I started reviewing books in 2008. This one’s been holding me up. Baru Cormorant is one of those series where you really have to be in the right mood. And you have to make sure to take the time to let the story breathe. At least for me, this isn’t a book you can just read straight through in a matter of days, or even in a week. It’s too raw and stressful and […]

Magical Teenager – just a bit more contemporary than Harry

What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

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This new novella in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch covers events that happened in summer 2013 when his primary protagonist Peter Grant was off solving the case of a missing child in Herefordshire (The Hanging Tree). During that summer we follow Peter’s cousin Abigail Kamara in London as teenagers go missing around Hampstead Heath and then turn up later missing their memories. At this point Abigail is still not formally attached to “The Folly”, but she has already been exposed to the […]

A 5-star book in a 1-star world

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

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If I had read this a few years ago, when I hadn’t quite reached the “FED UP” stage, I would have loved it. I can recognize the skill that went into this book – Polk knows exactly what they’re doing, and does it tremendously well. I will definitely seek out more of their books, but I hope there are some solidly sci-fi stories, because I don’t think I can handle more historical fiction like this. In the world of Midnight Bargain, magic exists, and people […]

An interesting read with the story told by the least interesting character

INK WITCH, book one by Lindsay Fairleigh

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I got this book for 1.99! you cannot beat a book for that price in my opinion. Especially one that has a sci-fi bent. This is the story of Kat Dubois who is an immortal stuck in the body of an 18 year old… she is 38 years old but because her body is stuck at 18 she somehow has the hormones of an 18 year old woman too? That actually sounds horrid and thankfully the author doesn’t focus on that too much. (Please notice […]

A Video Game with an Unbeatable Hero?

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 15 by Fuse, Taiki Kawakami, Mitz Vah

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I’m probably going to be on my manga review for a little while yet, while I recover from the Spring 2021 semester. Until then, here’s my review of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 15 (manga). As I’ve noted in reviews of previous volumes, this story seems to have a protagonist who cannot be defeated, only temporarily maybe a little slowed down. That has not changed; what has changed is something of a personality shift in Rimuru, the titular slime. In the […]

“We were salt and sand and sea and storm”

Namesake by Adrienne Young

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I’m still loving this YA pirate girl trend, so of course I was excited to get back to Fable’s world. Also, I adore how the covers form Fable’s face! This is the second in the duology, and can’t be read as a standalone, so this review will contain spoilers for the first book. “We were salt and sand and sea and storm. We were made in the Narrows.” At the end of the last book, things were finally looking up for Fable – and then […]



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