Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Not exactly Little Red Riding Hood

Big Bad Wolf by Suleikha Snyder

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Disclaimer! I got an ARC from NetGalley. That has in no way influenced my review.   In a dystopian alternate reality, where the 2016 election led to the USA becoming a tightly regulated surveillance state, pretty much at the same time as the existence of a number of supernatural beings were revealed, several big cities, including New York, are now a Sanctuary City for supernaturals. Joe Peluso, an ex-soldier turned werewolf through military experimentation, is in prison for murdering six bear shifters with ties to […]

Stop draggin’ your feet and get to Where the Dragons Live!

Where the Dragons Live by Serena Geddes

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Where the Dragons Live is a sequel to another Serena Geddes book called Rosie and Rasmus. The dragon Rasmus says goodbye to Rosie, journeys to the land of dragons (the Island of Dragons to be precise) and cannot wait to make new friends. The problem is Rasmus is not like the other dragons. They roar, play rough, little mean, are big and tall, breath fire and tell him he is not a real dragon. But then again, what is a real dragon? And Rasmus learns […]

Read this and tell me what I read, please and thank you.

Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley

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I have no idea what Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley is about. There are more questions than answers. There is no logical flow (at least not to me) and it is done mostly in a chronological order with the events. There was something missing from page one. By the end I appreciated the experience, the art and even the text. I just cannot say I liked it. The story is basic with four teens traveling from California back home to Canada. They see […]

Voted Most Likely to get hit by the ball

Chunky by Yehudi Mercado

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This is a fun story. Chunky is a good look at one kid (Yehudi Mercado) and his struggles, but who always seems to be okay with the results. Hudi might not have won (at baseball, soccer, or football), but he did not lose. He just has a perfect record of not winning. And getting hit by the ball (except in swimming). The humor is sometimes borderline adult, but ages 8-9 (strong reader) to around 13-14 could get a kick out of it. Due to this […]

Tale As Old As Time? Gimme Gimme

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

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This is a 3.5 star book, rounded up because I definitely enjoyed it quite a bit. Recommended here by Siskel101, I was always going to be in the mood for a Beauty and the Beast retelling. Belle remains my jam, Disney weirdness aside (did you know she’s apparently 17? What would have been lost in the storytelling if she had been 27? Nothing, that’s right. Kids don’t understand the difference between 17 and 27, they’re both Old). This was definitely not as good as Robin McKinley‘s […]

How late was I to discover Booktube?

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

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I tend to be very chatty, so please skip ahead to each book for the individual reviews if you do not want TMI about my life. 🙂 So clearly, I have lived under a rock for the past 10 years or so. There is no other explanation for why it took a pandemic for me to realize people actually made videos about books and posted them online. I’ve been reading reviews on Goodreads and blogs and Amazon/Audible before buying books for years, but never did […]



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