Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Journey before Destination!

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson

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Small note: I had every intention of reading Rhythm of War before posting this but I will not be getting to it before the year ends. Why is every hold at my library available RIGHT NOW?! The Stormlight Archive I used to loathe science fiction and fantasy books.  Those books were for nerds and in middle school, I would not be a nerd. Well, fast forward *ahem* about *cough*twenty*cough* or so years and I read SF/F almost exclusively when I read fiction. As a result, […]

Proper fantasy world building, what a concept!

A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane

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I should start this review by saying I might change it based on how reading the second book goes, and that Vane created  a really interesting and cool world to play in, but in my opinion, the romance, which is prominently featured in the story, is a dumpster fire. Plot: The leader of a small nation of warriors that live in the wilderness, resentful of their more “cultured” allies to the south and are totally not Scots, learns of the murder of his parents. Being […]

Outlander, but with less going on

Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown

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This book is follows a pretty well trod premise at this point, though it does it well. Plot: Dissatisfied Future Woman craves intimacy. Accidentally falls back in time to the Viking Age because of some weird quirk of 22nd century VR tech. Falls in love with a chieftain who has sworn to never touch anyone because of the curse he was born with (a big birthmark that is deemed a foul omen). They lust after each other for a few hundred pages between Dissatisfied Future […]

Secret Identity Inception set in Camelot

The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

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This book is an excellent example of quality YA titles. If you like Young Adult novels and have any fond memories at all of reading about King Arthur, this is going to be right up your alley. Plot: Guinevere is on her way to marry King Arthur. Only it’s not Guinevere! It’s a sorceress who has been trained by Merlin to protect Arthur in secret because they’ve had to ban magic use within Camelot. Only maybe that’s not the whole story? This book does an […]

The setting is otherworldly but the trauma is not

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

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This is my third Nalo Hopkinson novel, and while I think Brown Girl in the Ring and Sister Mine are better works, I nevertheless liked this one quite a lot. Hopkinson has a unique talent for blending fantasy, science fiction, and Afro-Caribbean culture/history into stories of female empowerment. Midnight Robber’s main character is a girl who suffers trauma at the hands of someone she ought to have been able to trust and who then must find the path to her own healing. Midnight Robber is […]

I am a passenger. I am moving through your dreams, all of your dreams. And you never knew

The Sandman (Audio Production) by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman refuses to call this an audiobook. And look, he’s not half wrong, it’s more of an audio play than anything else. But for the purpose of reviews, I’m going to treat this as a book. And no matter how we characterise it, this is a bloody marvellous piece of work, and one of the most pleasantly surprising things to come out of 2020. The premise is a bit daunting when you think about it: a comic book is a very visual medium that […]



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