Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A rare case in which the TV show is better (for a time)

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

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If you’ve seen the HBO Show True Blood, then you know the plot of Dead Until Dark. Vampires are real and everyone knows about them. Sookie Stackhouse wants to meet a vampire desperately, but she’s just a waitress at a small bar in Bon Temps, Louisiana where nothing exciting ever happens. The only thing that keeps things interesting/challenging for Sookie is that she can read minds. Other than that, her life is boring: she goes to work, she goes home to her home where she lives with […]

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Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

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Holy crap. Stop reading this review and just go read this book instead. Trust me. Okay, you’re still here. Fine. Yadriel wants to prove himself to his family. Prove himself as a brujo, as a capable addition to the family business, and, most importantly, as a man. Yadriel is a young, high school aged trans boy in a family of brujxs. The men are all brujos who help spirits cross over to the afterlife, and the women are brujas who heal those still living. Yadriel is […]

Finishing the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy

Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

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I loved Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone and was excited to dig into Days of Blood & Starlight, the second book in the trilogy.  When that book ended on a cliff hanger, I did what any other bookworm would do at midnight – downloaded the next book to my Kindle and stayed up the rest of the night finishing it! “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.” […]

Wild Cards – George R. R. Martin et al (1986)

Wild Cards by George R. R. Martin et al

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From my understanding this book began as a kind of RPG tabletop game (as in being written as they went) and it developed into this series of connected short stories. This is an expanded edition of the original collection, which has some additional stories written as late as 2010. The premise involves an alien culture landing on Earth and among their technology is a kind of virus while has a couple of possible effects on those who get it: death, transformation to a kind of […]

Gimme some skin

The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire

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It’s pretty much impossible for me not to enjoy a Toby Daye book – they’ve become my comfort blanket whenever I need to disappear from the real world for a little while and I’ve not yet been disappointed. The Unkindest Tide – the 13th outing for Toby –  is no different. Hundreds of years ago the Roane, children of the Luidaeg, were slaughtered by the Selkies who took their skins for their own. While the Selkies have long known that the Luidaeg will one day […]

Ain’t no mountain high enough

Devoted by Dean Koontz

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I feel like I should preface this review with an admission: I was predisposed to love Devoted by Dean Koontz. His earlier novel, Watchers, is one of my all-time faves, and this one is similar in subject matter: a golden retriever who is more than he appears to be is up against a monstrous experiment gone wrong in a battle of good versus evil. Circling back to my predisposition to love this newer novel, my family has always had dogs. One of them was the […]



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