Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Wily Coyote

Sky Coyote by Kage Baker

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Kage Baker’s “Company” series began with a volume focused on Mendoza the botanist, and in this second volume in the series the narration turns to the man who made her what she is, Joseph. A Facilitator Grade One with the company for thousands of years, Joseph was the one who spotted Mendoza during the Spanish Inquisition and recruited her. In Sky Coyote, it’s 1699, a century and a half since Joseph was the head of the family in Tudor England during Mendoza’s doomed romance. The […]

I got to find my baby

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Howl’s Moving Castle is one of my favorite books ever, and I was over the moon when I found out Diana Wynne Jones had written a lesser-known sequel (or at least companion book.) As much as I enjoyed the way things came together at the end of the first book, I wanted more of Sophie’s fierceness and ability to cut through society’s nonsense, and I wanted more of Howl’s vanity and snark and never quite succeeding at being a truly terrible person. Unfortunately, Castle in […]

Good to meet you, now gimme more.

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The October Daye series was one of a number of recommendations netted back along when I came to the Cannonball group begging for urban fantasy recommendations. And while I haven’t fallen quite so in love with this one as the Kate Daniels series, it’s early days yet – with all of the urban fantasy I’ve read, it always takes at least a book or two for the series to get into its stride and Rosemary and Rue is a good starter for ten, introducing us […]

Lois Pulled a Bait-and-Switch on Me

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  So, I am more than familiar with LMB’s two main series – The Vorkosigan Saga (Which is mostly a space opera), and her books set in the world of the Five Gods. (Which are a sort of semi-medieval fantasy.) What I’ve been slow to pick up though is her Sharing Knife series. Mostly because they are almost impossible to find in print! I’ve never stumbled on these books in a bookshop and had to go searching really hard across libraries to find a hard […]

Hope is the thing with feathers

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This Newberry Medal winning YA novel is a fantasy/fairy tale about hope’s triumph over sorrow. Kelly Barnhill writes about a world populated by witches, dragons, monsters, and humans. She writes of bogs, forests, and towns separated by fear and magic. In this world, one town in particular, the Protectorate, engages in a terrible human sacrifice every year, wherein the youngest child in town is left in the forest as a tribute to an evil witch. It is an age old practice, perpetuated by the town […]

Limitless Potential But Is It Actually Good to Know About All the Missed Opportunities?

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When I saw earlier this year that Kristin Cashore had a new novel, I was hesitantly excited.  I loved Graceling, liked Fire, and thought Bitterblue was fine.  Still, it’s never guaranteed that an author can come up with a new idea and world, and create another property as beloved as Graceling. I started writing the review shortly after finishing this book in February, and struggled were to go with it.  I noticed many other reviewers were deliberately vague, and couldn’t figure out how much I […]



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