Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

One final trip to Black’s Faerie realm

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

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Spoiler warning! This is the third and final book in the Folk of the Air trilogy. Don’t read this review if you haven’t read the previous two book, it’s impossible to review the story without mentioning events from earlier. If you want to start the series at the beginning (since the series is completed now), The Cruel Prince is the first book. Official book description: “He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.” Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 14 – 16

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 14 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 15 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 16 by CLAMP

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Why this all began,  Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles read through. Volume 14 – The volume opens with Yuko and Fei-Wang Reed throwing verbal barbs at one another while magically communicating across dimensions.  In Recort, Syaoran and Kurogane discuss the discovery that the people who killed Kurogane’s mother and attacked Syaoran’s country are from the same dimension.  This adds a new reason to keep dimension hopping. Sakura and Fai have been investigating and learned that the book that allowed Syaoran to see Kurogane’s memory is literally called, ‘the […]

It’s A LOT

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

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I liked this book generally, but it was a lot.  I don’t just mean thematically, there were at least 50 pages here that could have been cut, realistically more like 100. Which is frustrating, because the myriad themes and interwoven tales allllllllmost work perfectly together.  But not quite, as there are just a few too many ornaments on this particular tree for the branches not to sag. It’s such a close call that I feel bad complaining, but morgenstern seems more preoccupied with tying up […]

I release the lock. I open the door. That’s the best definition of love.

The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt

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This is a collection of short stories from Samantha Hunt and one that I’ve been avoiding because I was worried it was going to be another delving into the kinds of modern fairy tale stories that I end up always wanting to the read but never really enjoy much. I think I can be forgiven for thinking that’s what we were going to have here, because of how many of those that have been published in recent years. Anyway, instead, most of these stories are […]

Death is the only thing keeping us in line.

The Postmortal by Drew Magary

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I read Drew Magary’s The Hike a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised by how detailed, rich, and more than anything how funny it was. It felt very tacked together for the most of the first half or so, like he was making it up as he went along, but toward the end it felt more and more structured.    But with this novel, I was worried that because the concept was so conceit driven, ala a Twilight Zone episode or something like that […]

I can’t really fault the book…

A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab

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It’d be pretty hypocritical of me to complain about a book being more style than substance when I literally purchased it because the cover art was purty. Who’s valuing style over substance now?! And I’ll give it credit, it does have style with a bolded S. Our magician hero wears a cloak that has hidden pockets that can change the exterior; his companion is a tough-as-nails badass with a glass eye, they are on the run from the sibling royalty of White London and their […]



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