Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself.”

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

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For some reason, I’ve been inspired to read about historic accounts of people successfully fighting off fascism. While I had, of course, been aware that Nazis had plenty of fans on this side of the pond, I had not realized the depths of this fandom. Maddow has done a very deep dive into a story that is equal parts hopeful and pants-shittingly terrifying. She methodically follows the powerful people, including dozens of senators and a man who was building towards a strong campaign for the […]

Stay Out of the Forest!

Small Angels by Lauren Owen

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Bride-to-be Chloe has found the perfect setting for her wedding in the rustic church called Small Angels, but a presence stirring in the bordering woods may put an end to her places – and her life. Sometimes you just have to stay out of the forest. And tell your out of town bride that the church she wants to get married in might be haunted. This book is a bit back to the basics as far as folk horror is concerned – creepy forests and […]

The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

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When a scientist is murdered in the last outpost of humanity left in the world, the villagers must seek justice or all face death. I read Turton’s debut The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle several years ago, and while I enjoyed piecing together the mystery and the science fiction underpinnings of the story, I though the solution got too convoluted in the end. This book has a similar problem, but as the focus for much of the story is the science fiction setting and […]

Cold magic, revolution, and love

Cold Magic by Kate Elliott

Cold Fire by Kate Elliott

Cold Steel by Kate Elliott

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This review is for emmalita.  I haven’t been writing reviews in months due to life reasons but I wanted to share with her how awesome I found this trilogy.  Instead of writing her a bunch of texts, I decided it was time to write a review.  Emmalita introduced me to Kate Elliott with The Keeper’s Six.  Earlier this year I devoured Elliott’s’ The Witch Roads and it got me wanting to explore her back catalog so I got the audiobook version of Cold Magic, book one […]

Faeries, vampires, and a human troublemaker

Quicksilver by Callie Hart

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Quicksilver by Callie Hart introduces us to human thief Saeris. She mainly robs from the rich to survive her hellish kingdom, ruled by an evil magic queen. She had a past dalliance with the hot but insufferable schemer named Carrion. He will never let her hear the end of it. She’s living day to day until captured by the royal guard in a desperate attempt to save her baby brother. She assumes she’ll be executed, but in a world-shattering turn of events, she discovers she […]



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