Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Revisiting The Folk of the Air, with more Cardan and Jude

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

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Spoiler warning! Don’t read this book, or review unless you’ve finished the entire trilogy of The Folk of the Air. The Cruel Prince is the place to start. This companion book, which I suspect would clock in at novella-length if you removed all the beautiful full-colour illustrations throughout by Rovina Cai, works as part prequel and part sequel to The Folk of the Air trilogy, as well as an alternate POV to several of the series’ events, especially in The Cruel Prince, where Prince Cardan is possibly at his most loathsome. In […]

Would you like a do-over of college?

Haunted Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

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Spoiler warning! This is the fourth novel in the series Heroine Complex and this review may contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. I suspect it will also be a lot more satisfying for someone who’s read the preceding three books. Begin with Heroine Complex.    Official book description: Everything in Evie Tanaka’s life is finally perfect. As a badass superheroine, she defends San Francisco from demon invasion on the regular. Her relationships with superhero partner Aveda Jupiter, little sister Bea, and hot, half-demon husband Nate have […]

Spike as a wizard detective is the everything I needed in 2020.

Storm Front by (The Dresden Files #1)

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Let me get this out of the way. For the life of me, I struggle to identify the difference between science fiction and fantasy. I think wizards/vampires lands us firmly in the fantasy camp, but I’m not certain. I feel better having confessed this. That out of the way, let me give a thanks to the CBR community. I was looking for a new audio book to sink into and went searching through posts on the CBR facebook page and found a post from someone […]

That’s life and I can’t deny it

That’s Life by Ame Dyckman

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I am going to do one more review and it is a positive one! Yeah! (I hated the idea of my last review being negative.) That’s Life by Ame Dyckman is a goofy look at how wonderful, silly, and even hard, life can be. I do not know what Life actual is (A dust bunny? A hedgehog? A porcupine? Ame Dyckman in a furry gray suit?) but Life sure does have a good time in this easy picture book. And while it is simple, even […]

Gentlemen Bastards nos. 1 and 2

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

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I started The Lies of Locke Lamora for a book club that started in March 2020 and was quickly derailed by COVID.  I finally finished both it and the sequel…on December 30.  Take that, COVID! The Lies of Locke Lamora is a great read.  Meaty, full of grit and gallows humor, but also love and friendship and camaraderie. Excellent world-building,  really immersive descriptions of the town of Camorr and its very seedy underbelly. It’s hard to sum up but let’s try:  Father Chains, a monk […]

The Justice Bits are the Best

Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger

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The Delightfully Deadly series is basically a companion and continuation to Gail Carriger’s Finishing School series which is a prequel to the Parasol Protectorate (also a series, or rather two). You don’t need to have read the Parasol Protectorate, but it would really help with the Delightfully Deadly series if you have some familiarity with the Finishing School series. All of them are set in a generally steampunk-esque Victorian England that includes some knowledge and existence of werewolves and vampires. Defy or Defend is part […]



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