Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

When Uncle Earl says “Stay in the van.” STAY in the van!

The Night Door (Edison Beaker, Creature Seeker book one) by Frank Cammuso

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The Night Door (Edison Beaker, Creature Seeker book one) has strong 7 to 10-year-old boy reader written all over this.  There is potty humor (the pun of humans wear underwear/and they go to the Underwhere world), funny monsters (a possessed by darkness giant cat that likes to chase the light of the flashlight), great (mostly great) hero and his sister (who is pretty spunky, has a cool pet hamster, and like her brother, not keen of the dark)! Girls will enjoy as well if they […]

Alex Craft, Witch Detective

Grave Witch by Kalayna Price

Grave Dance by Kalayna Price

Grave Memory by Kalayna Price

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As soon as I saw Grave Witch by Kalayna Price in The Ripped Bodice bookstore, I knew I’d probably love it. The series is about Alex Craft, a grave witch who consults with the Nekros police. Her grave magic allows her to raise shades. Not to be confused with ghosts, shades take the form of the body just before it died and contain the soul’s memory. This is a pretty handy skill to have the victim’s shade testify in their own murder case. Grieving relatives hire […]

A Dinétah monster killer

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

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I was familiar with Rebecca Roanhorse from Twitter and her articles on Tor.com, so definitely excited for Trail of Lightning‘s release last year. I guess I wasn’t the only one because it was sold out at The Ripped Bodice when I went to buy it! Always a good sign and her novel did not disappoint. Trail of Lightning is the first entry in the series: The Sixth World. After a climate apocalypse that drowns most of the world, several nasty things that go bump in the […]

Dreadful in name only

Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

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Yay for new kinda favorite series! The thing for me that distinguishes a favorite from something enjoyable is how re-readable a book is. While I was waiting for the second book to get to my mailbox, I reread the first, and it was as much fun as the first time. After reading Dreadful Company (book 2), I started rereading it about a week later. Still fun. Dreadful Company features many of the same characters from the first novel including Dr. Greta Helsing, physician to things […]

The fact that she had sheet-cake frosting smudged on the corner of her mouth did nothing to diminish her authority

Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

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I have been reading but not reviewing Sarah Kuhn’s Heroine Complex series. I was very happy to get an ARC of Unsung Heroine from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. At some point I will review the three previous books – Heroine Complex, Heroine Worship, and Heroine’s Journey. I will say now that they are fun books, and you should definitely read them before picking up this novella. Unsung Heroine focuses on Lucy Valdez, the bodyguard with no superpowers, but awesome fighting skills, a killer fashion sense, […]

This is a weird ass book

Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

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I hadn’t heard of this novel before but saw it at the bookstore and thought it looked interesting. It’s a fantasy story of a young woman, a cleric, who has a unique and powerful connection to the gods. It is also the story of two nations at war over politics and religion. Wicked Saints has strong Slavic overtones, evident in names and geography, which I find appealing because of my own personal interests. I was not aware until I started writing the review that it […]



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