Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Loving the IAD Series Reread

No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole

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The Immortals After Dark series was part of my onramp to romance that I read mumbles incoherently years ago. They aren’t perfect but they are fun although they haven’t been generally well received by some Cannonballers due to various issues including a tendency to feature ThunderSex™ . I mostly forgot about them before stumbling across Fated Mates, the delightful podcast by romance writer Sarah MacLean and romance critic Jen Prokop THAT I CANNOT RECOMMEND HIGHLY ENOUGH. (While the emphasis of the podcast is the IAD […]

Longer is not better

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

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OH GOD I DID IT. Just like that, Throne of Glass is finally freaking over. I thought this day would never come and now that it’s here (well, passed, I finished this last week) I can’t quite believe it. Another Sarah J. Maas series is in the books (hah!) and you know what, I hate it less than A Court of Thorns and Roses. Kingdom of Ash is LONG, y’all. I got a look at it in a bookstore where I giggled as I pointed it out to my […]

Gotta get Busy busy busy

Olive & Pekoe: In Four Short Walks by Jacky Davis

Lizzy McTizzy and the Busy Dizzy Day by Sarah Weeks

Woke Baby by Theodore Taylor III

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Once upon a time there was girl who enjoyed reading. And she enjoyed telling other people about these books as well. This girl likes stories about friendship. And while she is not a dog person, she found a must have for dog lovers in a book about two doggie friends named Olive and Pekoe. Olive & Pekoe: In Four Short Walks by Jacky Davis, is a story that is broken up into four different walks. Each of these walks highlights how different these friends are, […]

Join Thomas on his adventure in a book . . . inside a book . . . inside a book

The Book in the Book in the Book  by Julien Baer

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The Book in the Book in the Book  is a clever book. And while the idea has been done before, Julien Baer and Simon Bailly presents it in a new format. When Thomas wanders off while spending a day on the beach with his family, he finds a book about a boy named Thomas who is having a day on the winter slopes. He too, wanders off and finds a book about a boy named Thomas who is a having a day out in outer […]

The grimmest of grim

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

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The best way to describe this book is by saying it’s A LOT. Kuang has written something pretty epic here and kept me guessing the whole way through. The plot and writing style sucked me in, but I wouldn’t call this an easy read. It’s extremely grim and becomes progressively more disturbing as the narrative goes on. Well worth your time if you have the stomach for something that will repeatedly kick you in the face. Rin is an orphan who comes from a fairly […]

A Little Less Sparkle the Second Time Around

The Ancient Magus Bride The Silver Yarn by Kore Yamazaki et al.

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The second The Ancient Magus Bride short story collection, The Silver Yarn, had some ups and downs, and in the end I wasn’t quiet as in love with the stories as with the first collection. I think maybe it was partially expectations, and partly the fact that the first collection had more references to the original characters and series. This set was still entertaining, it just didn’t have the same sparkle. Three stories stood out for me this time, and as it turns out, they […]



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