Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Lost Boy or Femme Fatale – Choose your novel

Funny Guy by Emma Barry

Bold Moves by Emma Barry

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One thing that I appreciate about Emma Barry is that she writes romance novels that feel very real and down to Earth. Yes, both these novels involve characters who have reached career heights most of us never will but the characters and situations feel very real. Sometimes, you want quirky and funny, sometimes you want something that feels like reality with adult characters. Funny Guy is set in New York and a childhood best friends to lovers story. Sam is a comedian who landed the […]

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

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Please note that I read this book via NetGalley. This does not affect my rating or review. Honestly not too much to say about this. It’s typical Serle at this point. Magical realism with no explanation, a character does a major betrayal, the book eventually gets to an ending. I was more intrigued on the premise of this one (at a baby’s birth in this family, a ticket appears that allows them to go back to a point in time and change things) but it […]

Arts and crafts as magic

The Moorwitch by Jessica Khoury

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Bingo Square: Free Space, replacing Borrow – and board complete with two final bingos (2nd column & last row) This novel was an Amazon First read for October, and the author was scheduled for a talk with Beth Revis at a local bookstore so it seemed like the perfect choice. The talk was earlier this week, and it was such a great discussion. I hadn’t actually picked up on this when I read it but Khoury did say this novel was inspired by/a nod to […]

The Wheel (spinning) of Time

The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

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Book four of The Wheel of Time is where I began to have some doubts about finishing this series. I knew going in that I was setting myself up to real fourteen books, which is more than I have done for any other series. Though I found the first book, The Eye of the World, to be derivative (of Lord of the Rings and Arthurian legend in particular) at times I enjoyed the story and characters enough to continue on. The second novel, The Great […]

Gutted. Wrecked. Ruined. And that was just after the first 3 chapters

Assassin’s Quest: Book Three of the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

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I love this series. I want to put that up front. It is outstanding, all three books. It is also heart wrenching. In this final installment of The Farseer Trilogy, the question is whether prophecies and destiny will be fulfilled, and if so, at what cost? FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard son of the man who was meant to be king but never would be, has been through horrifying, brutal, traumatic experiences. His maternal grandfather forced him from his mother and dumped him with his uncle at […]

Yew and Me

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

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I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley. This hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I’m a big fan of Alix E. Harrow’s previous works. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is probably my favourite, but Starling House comes in at a close second. I don’t think I’ve read anything of hers that I haven’t liked to some extent, so I was excited to start her latest novel, The Everlasting, released last month. The Everlasting tells the story of Owen Mallory and […]



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