Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Doing It For the Death Style Points

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Definitely more 3.5 stars, arrived at due to a 3 star first half and 4 star second half. We start on a planet(?) kingdom(?) post-apocalyptic-world-with-necromancy(?) realm(?) dimension(?) that is dark and gritty in the extreme–so, so very gritty. By about halfway through I realized that no one was an actual zombie/undead necromancer type, but I definitely felt like everyone should have taken a shower with a loofah at least once. For a cast of characters living in an stylistically(?) abandoned(?) / derelict(?) giant mansion(?) / […]

Fun but ultimately forgettable

Kingsbane (Empirium #2) by Claire Legrand

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Young adult fantasy with a girl standing up in the face of evil is so common that they all start to run together. The Empirium trilogy is different in that we’re looking at two young women protagonists, with the twist that one of them looks more and more like the doom to be stood in the face of, but ultimately this one won’t really stick with me. It’s not bad, it’s just not enough. Last year I got more into audiobooks as I would go for […]

The Riyria Revelations Series (Books #1-6)

The Riyria Revelations (Books 1-6) by Michael J. Sullivan

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Well, first review of the year, and this is a doozy!  It’s kind of impossible to attempt to divide out all 6 books, so I’ll do this in a combined post.  I did consume this series via audiobook, and the fantastic narrator (combined with the tasks of taking down Christmas, laundry, holiday chore catch up), made the time sail by, hence all 6 at once.  🙂 The basic plot is this:  Two men are brought together by a wise scholar for an impossible heist.  Royce […]

I read this in one sitting!

Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy Book 1) by Clair Legrand

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This story follows the path of two young women, who were born centuries apart but somehow connected by a prophecy.  In this prophecy there will be a Sun Queen, the savior of all, and the Blood Queen, who will bring about desctruction. The book bounces back and forth between the two main characters and timelines.  I confess that did take some adjusting to in the beginning, especially because the chapters are short. Because its the first in the trilogy, it is slow in the begining […]

It might be a bad sign when your imaginary friends are mad at you….

The Crankypants Tea Party by Barbara Bottner

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Do not read The Crankypants Tea Party if you yourself are a little crankypants. Or maybe you should, as it might get you out of that crankypants mood. That is because, this humor is offbeat and not for everyone; therefore, who knows how you will feel afterwards! The idea of a young girl inviting her special stuffed animal friends to a tea party is not “HAAHA LAUGH OUT LOUD” funny but has the humor of a child that might be adorable but a little well, […]

One Dreamboat coming up!

My Creepy Valentine by Arthur Howard

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Valentine’s Day books are already out and about on the displays at work. Yes, it is a short season, but somehow, I always feel like we should wait a little longer into January to start putting them out. However, I am glad that this was not the case this year. If we had waited, I probably would not have found My Creepy Valentine by Arthur Howard. Oh my goodness! This is an adorable book if I do say so myself (and I do). Mitzi, the […]



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