Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Excuse me while I disappear into another world for a while

The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett

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My friend has been pressing me to read this series for a while now, and The Painted Man (apparently called The Warded Man outside of the UK) has made me wonder why I didn’t pay more attention to him before now. It’s been a while since I’ve read some proper fantasy, and this book made me realise how much I’d missed it.  In this world, science and machinery are artefacts of the old world, its knowledge forgotten and its former strongholds now crumbling ruins. The […]

Going the Distance (Bingo “Far and Away”)

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga Book 1) by Fonda Lee

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Summer had barely begun and already the city of Janloon was like a spent lover–sticky and fragrant. (Kindle loc. 125) And with that line, Fonda Lee’s book grabbed me at the end of the first paragraph and didn’t let go.          

Django Wexler’s “The Shadow Campaigns” series took me on one heck of a ride

The Guns of Empire: Book 4 of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler

The Infernal Battalion: Book 5 of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler

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This review specifically covers the last two books in Djanjo Wexler’s “The Shadow Campaigns” series, book four, The Guns of Empire, and the conclusion in book five, The Infernal Battalion but also discusses the series as a whole.  Each book of The Shadow Campaigns gets a 4 star rating, however the strength of the series as a whole is 5 stars. With each book Wexler expands the scope of the story and fills in the world with greater detail.  The Thousand Names is a military […]

Silver to Gold

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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I don’t know what to say about this awesome book. Novik does a great job of developing three characters (Miryem, Wanda, and Irinushka). The setting of the story is great and we have a fire demon, a race of people called the Staryk who live in a wintery world that is adjacent to the Russia the story takes place in. I loved all three of these characters equally (which almost never happens). I wanted a follow-up story though about what happens to Miryem. The ending […]

Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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CBR11bingo: Reading the TBR BINGO, Four corners plus center square: Remix, Reading the TBR, Summer Read, Cannonballer Says, Own Voices I think my favorite thing about CBR bingo is that it motivates me to go the library and borrow the books that have been languishing on my TBR list. Good Omens is yet another in the long registry of “Why the hell (ahem) did I wait so long to read this book?” It seems improbable that this novel could be floating around the periphery of […]

A Court of Fun and Nonsense

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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I waited way, way too long to review these properly (my MO for this entire Cannonball), so my scattered impressions are these: º Sarah J Maas has a real talent for world-building and concepts. Her depictions of the fae in this book and in her other series are rooted in just enough common fae lore that she doesn’t have to get bogged down filling in lots of backward detail, but she of course contributes enough of her own unique features that they aren’t interchangeable across […]



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