Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Everything changes in a Season

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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Sometimes the weight of expectation is enough to keep me from reading a book I truly want to read. Case in point: I’ve had NK Jemisin’s The Fifth Season on my shelf for almost a year, even though I was sooo excited when I bought my copy. The timing was right, though, since I needed a win after a bit of a streak of so-so reads, and for the most part, this book delivered. The Fifth Season begins with a prologue that introduces the world […]

A boy, his canoe, and the beginning

The Book of Dust Vol. 1 : La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

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I quickly and deeply fell in love with Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy.  The ending of the third book has me in tears each time I read it.  However, when I heard that he was writing a prequel with Lyra “at the centre of the story”,  I rolled my eyes.  We already have three books where she is a main character.  How much could have happened to her before the start of The Golden Compass?  Then last year a fellow Cannonballer warmly reviewed it (apologies, […]

The first three books of the Lunar Chronicles

Cinder (Book 1) by Marissa Meyer

Scarlet (Book 2) by Marissa Meyer

Fairest (Book 3.5) by Marissa Meyer

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Let me start out this review by saying SPOILERS BELOW!  After the first picture, all bets are off.  I can’t review these books without using details, because some of them get me feisty.  I actually wrote these reviews on paper last night because I had many #feelings.  I randomly found this series from my library through the Overdrive app.  I’ve listened to all three books that way.  Cinder is #1, Scarlet is #2, and Fairest is #3.5.  I’m on a waiting list for #3, but […]

My Weakness for Pretty Books

Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince by V.E Schwab, Andrea Olimpieri, Enrica Eren Angiolini

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I didn’t intend to buy this. I wasn’t a big fan of the main character in the main series whence this springs. He was just there, without much detail, mostly a stereotype. Until the end in which he does something that’s supposed to be self-less and brave, but ends up seeming pointless and meaningless. But there was a display of V.E. Schwab’s stuff, since she had a re-release out and the first volume of the Shades of Magic prequel/comic: The Steel Prince. It was pretty, […]

I love revisiting books at different times in my life. Perspective is so weird.

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman

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The last time I read this series, it was before I joined Goodreads, and way before I started reviewing books regularly, so it took me a minute to put my thoughts together. I’d never read this book critically before, only with the half-frightened fascination a kid has for something they find intriguing but don’t really understand, and then again when I was older, to try and relive that feeling. When I first read this book a year or so after it was published, it scared […]

Clap your hands if you believe in fairies

Disney The Never Girls #01 In a Blink by Kiki Thorpe

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Disney is a “love them or hate them” franchise. However, regardless of my personal feelings anything that makes kids read (even if it is a book about Tinker Belle and fairies) is all right by me! And this is just that: Disney promoting themselves by using Tink and the gang. By trying to make a girl power book: the girls are not girly and glitter (except for one, but even then, she is pretty tough) and they will go off on an adventure that (spoiler) […]



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