Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Are we girls, or are we demons?”

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

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I will be 100% honest – I picked up this book solely based on that cover, and I have zero regrets. This is a hard-hitting and fiery young adult fantasy about overcoming the patriarchy. In Otera, it’s accepted that women are subservient to men, and anyone – or anything – that goes against that is against the natural order. At fifteen, girls go through a bloodletting ceremony to prove their purity. Girls who bleed red are now considered women, free to find husbands and have families, […]

An indifferent review of A Darker Shade of Magic

A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab

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I needed a distraction and the best way I can find is to get lost in a book. I can binge books the way people binge Netflix and I managed to finish this book in one day. I didn’t binge this book because I couldn’t stop reading, I needed to keep reading as a distraction and this book was a good option. The story itself is a lovely tale about being able to travel to different dimensions or versions of the same place. In this […]

NOTE TO PUBLISHER: put all books out in one collection. Please and thank you.

Super Sons V02 The Foxglove Mission by Ridley Pearson

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The Super Sons series should be read back-to-back as it had been at least a year since reading book one (The Polarshield Project) and I had forgotten the action/plot of the book. This made reading book two, The Foxglove Mission, awkward to say the least. Book two of Ridley Pearson’s graphic novel series is obviously the “middle book.” There is the buildup, some action, but in the end, you know it is the diving board for you to jump into book three. It is not […]

Do you want a treehouse, too?

Everything You Need for a Treehouse by Carter Higgins

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The great thing about books is that there is something for everyone. And Everything You Need for a Treehouse is one of those books. I was not the audience for Carter Higgins book (it was too sugary for me) but that is fine. I know several people that can appreciate this poetic story of nature and the magic of it, the magic of reading, the magic of imagination, the magic around us and of course, the magic of treehouses (which fosters that magic). What I […]

Heaven Goes to War with Heaven and Mummies try not to fall apart

Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw

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I’d kind of been putting off reading Grave Importance because it’s the conclusion of a series I’ve enjoyed. This was a good ending to the series, and I’m sad it’s over, but at the same time there are a few things I wish had gotten a little more attention. The basic story has two lines that of course merge part way through; first there’s Greta’s in which she takes over a really fancy mummy clinic for a friend for a few months and naturally discovers […]

Less Frog Demons Than Expected

What Ho, Frog Demons! by Chris Kutalik, Luka Rejec

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What Ho, Cannonballers! It’s been nearly two months since I posted a review or, indeed, read a book. My last semester of school is truly kicking my ass. I have plenty of books to choose from, but school takes so much of my mental and physical energy that reading anything seems like just another item on the task list. One thing I have enjoyed, though, is thinking about and reading tabletop RPGs. There’s something so low pressure about RPG books, which are often just a […]



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