Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A con artist, a curse and a costumed vigilante

The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick

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Wow, this book is a ride. It’s a twisty political fantasy with an emphasis on found family and origins, and while it takes a bit to get there, the journey is very enjoyable. “My grandfather—yours too, I suppose—he used to say, revenge will make you whole. The way Grey’s been behaving… I’m afraid it will break him.” It didn’t break me, she wanted to say. But that wasn’t entirely true. Coming back to Lacewater made that all too clear.” House Traementis – Donaia and her […]

Ring Shout: Monster Slaying KKK Fighting Awesomeness

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

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Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark– short, fast-paced historical fantasy w/ a little southern gothic thrown in. It’s an exploration of hate, how it builds, consumes, and makes blind, & its destructive power in the US, especially the South. Awesome monster fighting! Highly recommend

A story about stories

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

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[read as an ebook from my local library] If you read my little snarky Cannonball Read bio, you’ll see in addition to various other quirks and personal failings an “acknowledged tendency to fall for fictional characters.” This is not as strictly a joke as it ought to be — I have always tended (still do) to form rather strong attachments to figments of someone else’s imagination. I suppose you could call it a sort of parasocial relationship with someone who is maybe even less real […]

Holy Moly

Circe by Madeline Miller

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When (I read it): Late night treat-time only, when the pull of the book matched the pull of (spoiler warning) my bed. Where (I read it): In bed, where my cocoon allowed me to sink in without expectation or judgment. Why (I read it): A long-ignored predilection for mythology combined with a general crowd gaga-factor. How (I read it): With great anticipation, bought many months ago to read when I could appreciate it. Finally got there. In preface, I’m three books read by the first […]

Witchy as hell (but there’s something about it…)

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

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I’ve been escaping some of the heavier research reading I am doing for work/project through fantasy/fiction audiobooks. The last one wasn’t entirely a dud but also didn’t leave me with that ecstatic, “I’m so happy I’ve consumed this story and can’t wait to read more” feeling. This one, The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow, was also somewhere in the grey zone for me; somewhere between being really good and thoughtful, but also not being something I was consuming with great vigor either. […]

For the Nesta stans

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas

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Oh, Sarah J. Maas, I cannot quit you. I thought I was done with A Court of Thorns and Roses but then I found people who love/hate it as much as I do, I bullied a friend into reading it, and I got stuck without a book so I ended up rereading the entire series. I KNOW. Anyway. Here we are. I reread all three and then zipped right through the latest, all 768 pages of it. Is Sarah J. Maas more than one person, James […]



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