Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”

Shift (Silo #2) by Hugh Howey

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It has been a few years since I read the first book of this series, Wool, but I was very excited to return to Howey’s dystopian world, of people living in a silo, with many unanswered quesitons about how humanity got to this point, and what exactly is wrong with the world outside. I was ready to pick back up where book one ended, but was in for a bit of a surprise. In fact, I was quite disappointed, because I DESPERATELY wanted to see […]

“And Now I’m Covered in the Colors”

Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik

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As far as I am aware, this is Jessie Mihalik’s first full length fantasy novel but given how much I enjoyed her sci-fi romance novels, I was of course going to read this one. Well, to be clear I didn’t actually finish the third novel of Starlight’s Shadow because the couple was annoying me but the first one in that trilogy was so good! And the Consortium Rebellion is also very much worth checking out. And this book was just fun! Riela has lived in […]

Song of the Lioness: I will always love Alanna

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce

Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce

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I began reading The Song of the Lioness quartet from Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series as bedtime reads after reading Lord of the Rings before bed in 2025. I’ve read them so many times before, so I know I can put them down and go to sleep whenever I feel drowsy. I have loved these books since I was in 7th grade – about 25 years – and I will always love them, but damn has it become clear how much I and the world have […]

Some doors shouldn’t be opened

The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

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I was so excited when I saw that Marissa Meyer had a Bluebeard retelling (I enjoyed her recent Rumpelstiltskin inspired duology though I think it might have worked better as a stand alone) and there wasn’t anything wrong with this story at all, I just felt like it could have done more. I don’t think I heard of the Bluebeard story until my teens or early 20s (my introduction to it might have even involved Margaret Atwood) but it’s always interesting to see what people […]

You have to get the words right

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

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This was a reread for me but it was a book club choice and it had been long enough since I read that I was a little fuzzy on the details (also, I’m not sure if I simply read them around the same time or if the authors approached their descriptions in similar ways but the changeling in this novella strongly reminds me of the possessed kid or changelings child in the Emily Wilde novel). This is an alternate version of Sleeping Beauty where Sleeping […]

Not what I expected, but absolutely amazing

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

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So at the end of last year, I decided that 2026 would be the year that I fully indulged my love for dark academia. I did some googling and put together a list of books that were considered part of the genre. Somewhere I came across The Raven Scholar and put it at the top of my list, as everyone seemed to love it. While reading it, I realized two things: 1) while there are a few dark academia elements, it’s not a book that I […]



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