Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Oh Look—It’s a Payoff!

Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire

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Same disclaimer as per usual; if you are reading a review of a long-running series—and Be the Serpent is entry number 16—you know what to expect spoiler-wise. I’ll try not to mention too much in this book, but the others are all fair game.  Another thing with long running book series is that there is a lot of potential for very long plot arcs. While most books in the October Daye series have a little surprise or two, there was something set up in A […]

No Longer Human indeed

No Longer Human Vol. 1 by Junji Ito

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I’d seen the original novel in the #BookTok section at Books-a-Million, so this manga caught my eye when I was scanning the manga shelves at FYE. I didn’t have the money for this massive manga, but I did manage to find at least one volume of it to read online, and it was an experience. This is easily the most depraved thing I’ve read this year, and I’m afraid to read any further. It’s the stuff of nightmares. Remember how I said I’d be here all […]

It sure took you long enough

She Hulk #6 by Rainbow Rowell

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Jeez, Rainbow Rowell, it sure took you long enough. After five issues of romantic tension, we finally get some payoff. Walters and Jack have literally already been acting like a couple all this time. It was long overdue. The guy is living with her and forever wearing the heart shirt that she gave him. I know Rowell likes to drag out romance in her stories, but this was bad even by her standards. I mean, if I had to pick one thing that felt like […]

You lost me at the title…

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki

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Honestly, the book lost me with its titular concept. I simply cannot relate to a character who would willingly subject herself to all of this heartbreak with a girl who clearly doesn’t respect her. Laura Dean dumps her, cheats on her, etc. She’s forever an afterthought for Laura Dean and yet she keeps going back to that well. I know sometimes what we want doesn’t make sense, and it’s probably rooted in her not valuing and respecting herself enough, but it still took me out […]

Not as magical for me as it has been for others

The Magic Fish by Trung le Nguyen

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Maybe I’m broken, because I didn’t find this as winning as seemingly everybody else. I liked the way they weaved together fairy tales with bits of both the past and the present but, I don’t know, I guess I wanted more. More what, you ask? More time with these characters and less time with the fairy tales. Tien’s coming out tale was what resonated with me the most, so I found myself getting frustrated when it would dip back into a fairy tale. I kept […]

Well, at least now I know Fujimoto is human after all….

Sasaki Has Stopped the Bullet by Tatsuki Fujimoto

There Were Two Chickens in the Garden by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Little Sister's Elder Sister by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Siren Rhapsody by Tatsuki Fujimoto

When I Woke Up I Had "Become a Girl Disease" by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Nayuta of the Prophecy by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Shikaku by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Love is Blind by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Just Listen to the Song by Tatsuki Fujimoto

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It wasn’t until I read all of these one-shots separately that I realized a two volume collection (pictured above) was due out in the US. That probably would’ve beaten reading fan translations on sketchy free manga sites, which is what I wound up having to resort to. Oh well. Having now read them all, I don’t know that I necessarily would be rushing to buy the collection. That’s not to say there isn’t some quality content here, just that most of it feels like a […]



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