Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling

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This is my second to last of these reviews. I have actually enjoyed engaging with these books on a different level. Normally when I read them, I just zoom through and enjoy. I don’t usually stop to analyze. Speaking of not stopping to notice things, look to your left. I have looked at that image for several months now and I am only now noticing that it can be either a book (like the Prince’s Potions book) OR Dumbledore shooting sparks with his wand (the […]

I cannot do this book justice, so don’t read my review, just take my word and read this book

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith

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There are a few weak spots in the story line of The Deep & Dark Blue. The largest two pieces are, first, it seems to start in the middle of the story. You do not learn who the two main characters, Hawke and Grayson, are right away but tossed into being introduced to a large plot point while being tossed into meeting a cousin of the twins at the same time. Yet, you are unaware right off he is a cousin. Or they are twins. […]

Making a theme

Luna and the Moon Rabbit by Camille Whitcher

King Mouse by Cary Fagan

The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper

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Sometimes I find a theme in books that are not really meant to connect them. In the case of Luna and the Moon Rabbit by Camille Whitcher, King Mouse by Cary Fagan and The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper, it is their illustrations. Each is different in their immediate style of art,and also story, but they have an otherworldly element to them that makes them “foggy” and “dream-like” to the viewers eye. Camille Whitcher has created a story that is a dream. Luna’s imagination transforms […]

Why is Rhysand so sexy? Because it’s always Feyre’s choice.

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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I’ve now gotten to the third book in Sarah J. Maas’s ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ series, A Court of Wings and Ruin.  Over the past three books I’ve mused about what makes Rhysand such a sexy character, beyond how devastatingly handsome he is, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it has to do with always allowing Feyre to make her own decisions.  He’s charming, flirtatious, intelligent, caring, loyal to a fault, a touch wicked, with just the right amount of restrained violence that […]

Coincidences

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

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I wonder about coincidences in books. How does it happen that three books published within months of each other all use Grand Central in NYC as an important location (The Masterpiece, Time After Time, and The Lost Girls of Paris)? How do two fantasy novels published within weeks of each other, The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, both deal with doors connecting worlds, the magical power of writing, and a protagonist who reads their […]

More of this, please!

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Oh god I’m so behind. I’ve got three more reviews to write after this one and I’m almost done with a fourth book how did I let this happen. Ahhhhhh. But seriously, more of this please. Give me all the non-Euro-centric YA fantasy you got and I will eat it up. Gods of Jade and Shadow dives deep into Mexican-Mayan mythology and I loved literally every second of it. A friend of mine started reading it and I was like OH MY GOD FINISH SOONER SO […]



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