Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Daggerbound: Good thing this isn’t my type of book. Otherwise this might be dangerous.

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

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Daggerbound is the second book in the Swordheart Trilogy and either the 4th or the 6th in the World of the White Rat series depending on if you’re counting chronologically or by publish date.  In this book we acc0mpany Learned Edmund, yes, that Learned Edmund, and The Dervish, a man who has been sealed away in a magic sword for hundreds of years. Learned Edmund has decided he’s done with the misogynists who follow his god, and once he completes this one last job he […]

Dear Faerie: This is Why Children Go No-Contact With Their Parents

A Divided Duty by Seanan McGuire

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Trust the faeries to bring on the soap opera messes. One of the consequences of being both incredibly long lived—or even effectivly immortal—and being so variant that you’re more of a species cluster than a true cohesive group is that when the interpersonal dramas hit, they really hit. If you constructed a push-pin map that covered October Daye’s friends, family and allegiances at the start of the series and now, at book twenty, you would be shocked at how things have changed.  But let’s take […]

Frankenstein but Golem

Odessa by Gabrielle Sher

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I’ve been a fan of Frankenstein since I read it for school and love seeing different adaptations and interpretations. Learning of a Jewish golem interpretation, I knew I needed to get my hands on it, and I’m so glad I had the opportunity to read Odessa. In many ways this is a tragic story, but in the end it’s full of hope and love. I loved getting Mordechai, Frieda, and Yetta’s perspectives, because even though they’re one family living in the city of Odessa in […]

A single interesting character and a predictable plot made this a dull read.

The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy #1) by Marie Rutkoski

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CBR18 Bingo: Justice – Arin and his co-conspirators rise up against the occupying forces and enact justice upon them. She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. It had unfurled. If her heart were truly a scroll, she could burn it. It would become a tunnel of flame, a handful of ash. The secrets she had written inside herself would be gone. No one would know. ― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner’s Curse Music made her feel as […]

The Persistence of Memory and of Vengeance

Assassin’s Fate: The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy Book 3 by Robin Hobb

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Welp, I’ve completed my Hobb-a-thon, the entire 16-volume Realm of the Elderlings series, and Assassin’s Fate was, of course, a beautiful and bittersweet ending to this epic story. I knew that there were going to be tragedies, heroism, and possibly deaths of beloved characters. But even when you know it’s coming, when you know who is going to die (maybe even why and how), somehow Hobb delivers it in such a way that you are completely gutted. You weren’t as ready as you thought. Hobb […]

Two More BINGOs – A Blackout Might Actually Happen!

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

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CBR18 BINGO: Right for Clockwork Boys (a character does the right thing even though it didn’t fit with the mission), Success for The Wonder Engine Clockwork Boys This is my 3rd Kingfisher book, and she is now 3 for 3 with road trip books. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that was her bread and butter. Nettle & Bone? Traveling. Swordheart? Basically a romantasy road trip. Clockwork Boys? More traveling. Mostly traveling, in fact. It’s a good thing she does it well. She tends to suck me in immediately with […]



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