Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Wolf King by Lauren Palphreyman

The Wolf King by Lauren Palphreyman

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Disclaimer: I think this will be the third time I have attempted participating in the Cannonball Read. My failures in the past are so frustrating to me because I easily read at least 50 books each year. It’s the reviews that are my stumbling block. I know it’s because I am intimidated, both by the intelligence of the Pajiba community and by my minimal skills with technology. This year, I’m trying to let that anxiety go. If my reviews sound like they were written by […]

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold- This series never misses

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire

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After Nancy was cast out of the Halls of the Dead and forced to enroll at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, she never believed she’d find her door again, and when she did, she didn’t look back. She disappeared from the school to resume her place in the Halls, never intending to return. Years have passed. A darkness has descended on the Halls, and the living statues who populate them are dying at the hands of the already dead. The Lord and Lady who […]

Snake-Eater- T. Kingfisher never fails

Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher

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With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt’s house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. The scorpions and spiders are better than what she left behind. Because in Quartz Creek, there’s a strange beauty to everything, from the landscape to new friends, and more blue sky than Selena’s ever seen. But something lurks beneath the surface. Like the desert gods and spirits lingering outside […]

So much parental drama to resolve

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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I quite liked A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches but I also struggled with most cozy fantasy I read last year, especially if it was an author’s second or third cozy fantasy. I’m happy to report that this novel was just as good as A Very Secret Society. You can read these two in any order – I believe they are set in the same universe but I am not sure if they even share any of the same characters. Sera Swan was once […]

Paladin’s Strength: Every tagline I think of is just fraught with spoilers.

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

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I read the second installment of the Saint of Steel series entirely on audiobook. I found listening to this book – in comparison to Paladin’s Grace – to be less grating, but it still suffered from a few of the things that I didn’t love about the first book in the series. There is so much going for this book – the characters are delightful; the inclusion of a big/tall/possibly fat woman as the FMC is amazing; the side characters are a joy; the secondary […]

64 months later, a new Dresden Files

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

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I used to really like The Dresden Files but I haven’t been as excited about them in a long time. The two long gaps between releases didn’t help at all, and after discovering Seanan McGuire and Ilona Andrews, some of the bro-iness of The Dresden Files was bit harder to overlook/stood out more in comparison. While Harry matured a lot over the years in that regard, he seemed to be backsliding in the novels released most recently before this one, 2020’s Peace Talks and Battle […]



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