Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“It feels like I gave up my arms to make way for wings.”

Forever His Champion by Marie Lipscomb

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I’ve enjoyed following Natalie and Brandon through their travels and trials, but all good things must come to an end. This is the third book in the series, and the final book for Natalie and Brandon, so I wouldn’t recommend starting with this book. “But I was forced to choose between that life and Lady Natalie. I chose the woman I love, and I’ll never regret that decision. It feels like I gave up my arms to make way for wings.” Natalie and Brandon are […]

“Stories change with the tellers.”

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

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I have wanted this book ever since I saw the cover on Twitter! And it matches the book so well – a strong heroine, lots of magic and an intriguing mystery plot. “Who are you?” she repeated. Curiosity bloomed in her eyes, overshadowing the fear. Hetty held out a hand to the girl, much as she’d done many times before, and said, “Someone here to help.” Hetty and her husband Benjy fell into investigating murders and similar cases because the police aren’t interested in what’s […]

When life starts because of death

Victor and Nora: A Gotham Love Story by Lauren Myracle

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I debated on reading Victor and Nora: A Gotham Love Story for one (and yes, frankly shallow) reason: I did not like the cover. However, when I saw that my local library had a copy of Lauren Myracle’s graphic novel I decided to read it as I assumed that if I did not like it, I did not have to finish it. It never occurred to me that this was going to be a “Mr. Fries” story. Or more accurately, the teen who would become […]

Death Becomes Her

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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I feel like a ‘real’ cannonballer, now that I’ve finally tackled Gideon the Ninth. I feel like I see this book all over Cannonball Read, and that it comes highly acclaimed. The quote on the front cover sums it up fairly well: Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to service the deathless emperor! Skeletons! This is a fantasy novel, focussing on Gideon – a plucky upstart who wields her sharp sword and tongue with aplomb. She’s scathing, she’s edgy, […]

The Brothers Grimm’s Six Swans retold – and well

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

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Do you love old myths and sprawling, inventive low fantasy epics? Did you really enjoy Circe and wished there was a whole genre of retellings? Well, I’ve got a book for you. Plot: Sarcha is the seventh child and only daughter of the ruler of Sevenwaters. When her father, who has been mostly absent her entire life, brings home a new wife who happens to be an evil sorceress who tries to kill Sarcha and her 6 brothers to gain control of their land, Sarcha […]

Oh, ever in the greening spring…

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

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What a charming little book. The Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little movies were big hits with me when I was a kid (in fact, that 1999 Stuart Little movie kickstarted a crush on Hugh Laurie that endures to this day), and so naturally obsessive little completionist dsbs42 needed to read the books those movies were based on. I loved Charlotte’s Web in particular. And at some point many years later, I decided to revisit them as an adult and bought the E. B. White set, whereupon […]



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