Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Good Omens is a Love Story

Good Omens by Neil Gaimann and Terry Pratchett

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An angel and a demon have been working undercover on Earth for a long time. So long, in fact, that they’ve become friends – of a sort. Together one of them does bad and the other does good – usually according to whether they’re demon or not, but even so; they’ve been on Earth long enough to help each other out. And maybe, just maybe, they both like Earth just a little bit. “People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the […]

Easy Breezy Steampunk Mystery-Romance

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

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Timekeeper is a YA novel set in England in the late 1800s, with some historical (mostly, inventions, etc) aspects played with by the author for her version of this world: it has a very steampunk feel to it, and this is only added to by the fact that clocks play a huge role in the story. The clock-towers effectively control and guide the towns around them, and our young protagonist, Danny, is a mechanic of these clocks who can feel the threads of time acutely. […]

Guatemalan insanity pepper: The Book

The Hike by Drew Magary

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You guys, Magary has been hiding the good drugs. This book was TRIPPY.  In more ways than one it reminded me of “El viaje misterioso de nuestro Jomer,” The Simpsons episode where Homer hallucinates a coyote instructing him to journey to find his soulmate, but there’s a bit of Twilight Zone twistiness and, yeah, Chuck Palahniuk darkness. I’m impressed a book this weird was conceived, written to book length, edited, and published.  The weirdness was highlighted for me having gone into it blind on the strength […]

Gorgeous graphic novel with a dragon, a maiden, a warrior, and kites.

The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen (author), Rebecca Guay (art)

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 The Last Dragon is a beautiful book to hold.  Colors are muted and layered, nothing is a single flat shade.  Lighting has been carefully considered, illuminating and glowing as needed each panel.  The “maiden” is an herbalist’s daughter named, Tansy.  She is described as, “no color at all.  She seemed to blend in with her surroundings” and the artist, Rebecca Guay, did an incredible job showing this.  I also love the way Guay drew the dragon, so powerful and ferocious.  It reminds me of a […]

It is not about a whale that eats a wolf (spoilers)

The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

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The Wolf in the Whale is a fantasy. It is a what if fantasy. It is a mixing of Inuit belief with Norse mythology. It is about the clash of cultures. The story is told by Omat, a young Inuit who first tells of his life with his family, a family who needs more people, and then what happens when more Inuit show up, and then what happens when funny looking pale people show up. The thing is that, if we are being honest, this […]

Been there, but it isn’t bad

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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I really wanted to like this much more than I did. However, parts of the book are very been there and done that. What makes the book stand out is the use Russian folklore and setting. Arden really does have the knowledge that makes the world believable. In fact, the best parts of the book are the ones where the heroine is growing up. These are so beautifully written, and quite frankly are the reason why the book rates three stars from me. When the […]



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