Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Dragons, Art and Noodles

A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim

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First off, yes, this does share the same universe as the Six Crimson Cranes duology but you don’t need to have read that to follow this one. In fact you might be better off because you won’t be trying to remember if you have briefly met a character before. Tru’s father was lost at sea five years ago, and her father’s absence combined with her mother’s gambling habit quickly thrust the family into poverty. Tru and her two sisters do what they can to help […]

Gods and Monsters

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

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Bingo Square: G This is a world where there are many gods, they are real, and they interact with people; there are ancient gods and new gods, and there are grudges between them as they divert attention and worship away from each other. Some gods have become greedy and demand human sacrifices. Basically, it’s chaotic and some humans cling to the old ways while others have decided gods are more trouble than they are worth. In the kingdom of Middren the worship of gods is […]

Dear Faerie: We Need to Chat About How to Put a Fair Maternity Leave Plan in Place.

Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

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Look, I do feel a bit bad not following every bingo tile to the letter, but I have one that I am having difficulty filling, and I have not written a review for an October Day novel for nearly two years, so I think I can excuse myself.  First, a point of confusion: I had thought that the next book was going to be called These Violent Delights, and even stated as such in my last review. But as you can see from the title—Silver […]

Scuttlebut

Network Effect (Murderbot #5) by Martha Wells

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Murderbot is at it again. Once more, he is keeping his favourite humans (or at the very least, humans that it doesn’t hate) safe as they do exploration work. On the return, though, their ship is hijacked and dragged into a wormhole by none other than ART (short for Asshole Research Transport), Murderbot’s erstwhile friend and companion. ART is a research transport with massive computational capabilities, able to outsmart virtually everyone – so why has it been hijacked by a strange lifeform? Once again, Murderbot’s […]

What? He Quit?

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron

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cbr17bingo Free Meeting up with our old friend Mike Bowditch, game warden, it turns out that he is no longer a game warden!  Except for one of his first supervisors, Sgt. Kathy Frost, none of the rest of the folks he’s worked for have been too keen on him.  There is that odd predicament concerning the number of murdered people that seem to turn up in his vicinity.  He had been sent to the hinterlands of Maine for awhile now, but can finally take a […]

Gals being literary rivals, then pals, then more?

Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

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Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. Lady Georgiana Cleeve was disowned by her father when she announced that she was the author of several popular novels, and has lived alone with her mother ever since, cut off from all contact with her brothers, convinced that the scandal she brought on herself and her family would irrevocably tarnish the reputations of anyone connected to her. She is selling well and her books are popular, but for […]



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