Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A mildly magical murder mystery

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

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The only thing worse than not ever receiving my Hogwarts letter would have been not getting one, but three years later seeing my sister get one. Can you imagine being that close but by a simple fluke of I don’t know genetics or something it’s just always out of reach. There are times I really feel for Petunia Dursley (only times!) Magic for Liars is set in a decidedly less-magical Hogwarts – a school for mages, but one that seems almost down to earth. You […]

This one could not have ended soon enough

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

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Many years ago, I stumbled upon a series of books that mixed fantasy with re-imagined history. These were the Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik, and they described what the Napoleonic Wars would have been like if there had been dragons. Temeraire and his pilot create the base for the novels. I did not end up finishing the series, but I found them pretty enjoyable. So when I saw that Novik was getting notice for some new books based on fairy tales, I was intrigued. I […]

Unicorn Diaries are similar to yours….maybe

Bo's Magical New Friend: A Branches Book (Unicorn Diaries #1) by Rebecca Elliott 

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Bo’s Magical New Friend: A Branches Book (Unicorn Diaries #1) by Rebecca Elliott is super sugary sweet, but a fun unicorn story about friendship. As an adult, I could feel my brain relax into a nice mush. I liked this book not so much for the art as it is way too abstract in the sense colors and shapes are really out there, of course you know that is a rabbit/that is a unicorn/that is a troll, but they are child like in nature, almost too bloody […]

Lucky Bunnies Make Good Friends, but not the best short novel

Lucky Bunnies #1 Sky’s Surprise by Catherine Coe

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There really is nothing wrong with a book that tends to lean towards the more “sweet side.” Sometimes you have a reader who likes pinks and glitter and sparkly sneezes and unicorns and bunnies and rhyming ninjas. But when it becomes too syrupy and cliché of a story, that is when issues set in. Catherine Coe and Chie Boyd have created that with Lucky Bunnies #1 Sky’s Surprise. My copy of Sky was a reader copy with no internal illustrations, therefore, I can only mention […]

Nature, love, loss, magnolia flowers and friendships

Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen

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**possible spoilers** I read Pilu of the Woods by accident. I was looking at graphic novels and meant to just look at it, but it got into my purchase pile. And even though it was a surprise find, I strongly recommend Mai K. Nguyen and their graphic novel about loss, family, grief and coming to terms with it all. In fact, so much so that I am planning on donating my copy to my library in honor of a friends first grand-baby. (Which I know […]

And This is Why You Don’t Make Deals at the Crossroads

That Ain't Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

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The Crossroads have long played a background role in the InCryptid series.  Grandfather Thomas appears to have had a deal with them (or it?), and their Aunt Mary is one of the ghosts that works for the Crossroads though her relationship with the Prices has let her hold on to her humanity.  She also always warns her extended Price family to stay away from them, very well aware of how easily the deals can turn against the humans desperate enough to make them. The Prices […]



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