Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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 […]

Even worse now than it was when it was first published

Iced (Fever #6) by Karen Marie Moning

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Re-Read – August 2019: I first read and reviewed this 6 years ago and didn’t really enjoy it. But this summer, I wanted to revisit all of the Fever books, having been a big fan of the initial run of 5 in the series. And although my general feeling going into Iced was that this and the follow-up Burned were the weakest among them, I was actually a little cautiously optimistic that I might enjoy them more this time. A big part of that comes […]

Love * loss * witches

Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky’

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Witchlight is a contemporary graphic novel that deals with women’s issues of gender and what is their place in the world. A strong 12 & up (but more likely 13 to 15, and of course, adult) reader would find something here to relate to and/or enjoy. The main characters are a witch, her friend and the struggles they endure while trying to find peace from their past. Lelek is a witch and Sanja a village girl who is not appreciated by her family. When Lelek […]

A young author and illustrator create a magical adventure for the middle school crowd

Aster and the Accidental Magic by Thom Pico

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Random House has jumped on the young adult graphic novel craze with several titles coming out next year. So far, I have read three out of four reader copies I found. The first bombed for me. The second, Aster and the Accidental Magic, captured me and the third one someplace in the middle. The fourth and I will meet for a reading date soon. Thom Pico has a modern, quirky, story about nature and myth, which he wraps up into one crazy coming of age […]

All Aboard for Part Two

The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited! by Clint McElroy

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The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited! is still written by the McElroy’s (Clint, Griffin, Justin and Travis) and still amusing. The bad puns are bad and the innuendos even worse. This time, the story is a smidgen predictable (after all the three main characters return from book one, here in book two). You know that Merle, Magnus and Taako will screw around, goof up, accidentally get a magic spell or two right, drink booze (occasionally tea), play their role-playing game, interrupted by the DM […]

Urban Fantasy in London – Yay!

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

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I think I saw this series mentioned a while back on Cannonball Read and added it to my wish list but didn’t download it until my last trip to London.  I quite enjoy urban fantasy series but most of them tend to start with the hero already involved in the magical world, even if they have no idea how little they know.  Of course, then there are the other stories about magic and the supernatural, where a person who had no previous knowledge of them, […]



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