Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Third Time is a Charm

A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer

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I suppose this is why I hesitate to give up on books (or series) even when I find them lacking. I felt that way about the Temeraire books at some point (like most people) but in finishing them enjoyed every little snippet of Temeraire and Iskierka I found. I wrote at the end of the previous book: I guess now I’m invested, I’ll read the third book as well, but I’m not like super INTO this book series Happy to say that I will eat […]

Sure it’s a cliched YA fantasy, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun

Of Wicked Blood by Olivia Wildenstein and Katie Hayoz

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I’ve read and enjoyed Olivia Wildenstein’s books before, and the blurb for this one really caught my interest. It definitely lives up to it, as well! This is an enjoyable and high stakes young adult paranormal romance, all set in a small French town. Slate, professional thief and survivor of the foster care system, has always figured he was abandoned by his parents. So he’s shocked and angry to receive a letter – and birth certificate – claiming that he’s the only surviving member of […]

Secret Agent, Number Nine! Secret Agent, Number Nine! They do cool stuff all the time!

Agent 9: Flood-A-Geddon! by James Burks

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Agent 9: Flood-A-Geddon! would make a great Nickelodeon like cartoon super spy story. There is adventure with silly characters, funky fun illustrations, a relatable narrator (who might be a bit annoying to the adult viewer/reader at times) and is overall a good time. James Burks authors and illustrates this graphic novel. I am not sure if it is book one in a series (it reads both as a first and second book in a series) but reads as if more is to come. And not […]

If the dino hits the ball with its tail is that a strike or ball?

Fuzzy Baseball V04 Di-No Hitter by John Steven Gurney

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I loved the first book in the series Fuzzy Baseball by John Steven Gurney (illustrator of the A to Z Mysteries). And while I liked the second (Ninja Baseball Blast) as well, it was more of the same (the local baseball team plays baseball and learns lessons in sportsmanship, being good people and the game). I did not realize there was a third (R.B.I. Robots) out last spring, and I just received an e-book galley of number four, Di-No Hitter (due in mid-June 2021). This […]

The end ruined it for me

The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe

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Series: The Physick Book. I read Book One (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane) in 2009. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: I had gotten this series completely mixed up with the Deborah Harkness series, which was rather unfair to these books. While I didn’t love this, it’s certainly better than the All Souls trilogy. Because I had it mixed up with another series, it turned out I didn’t actually remember anything about the first book when I picked this […]

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

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Here I am again, another Dresden file closed! And I’m still along for the ride. The gang is all here: the entire wizard White Council, a blast from the past Dresden thought was gone, kooky fairy godmother Leanansidhe, more oodles of fairies, wolfy friends, and head of SI Karrin Murphy. Speaking of, I had NO IDEA he was spelling her first name like that until I started looking up quotes for my post title: the perils of audiobook. That led me to read another review […]



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