Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Presenting Max and their friends

Max and Chaffy: Search for the Ice Chaffy by Jamie Smart

Max and Chaffy: Welcome to Animal Island by Jamie Smart

Max and Chaffy: The Great Cupcake Mystery by Jamie Smart

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Do you want a cute story in a series that helps you to enjoy reading for the aged 6 to 9 (younger 10)? Max and Chaffy: Search for the Ice Chaffy by Jamie Smart is  the book you. For the child reader, you should read the first ones, but an adult can pick up things quickly. The fun part is that there are hide and seeks added. The colors are bold and details minimal, but keeps things moving along, while having fun reading. I did […]

A Solid Conclusion to the Hillbilly Fantasy Trilogy

The Hippogriff Riders of Oklahoma by Ferrett Steinmetz

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Daisy and Wild-Eye (and adorable baby dragon Ace) are at it again. This time, the two lifelong friends and minor criminals are running cigarettes from Texas back home to Oklahoma at the bequest of Daisy’s werewolf boss Dusty. After a brief interaction with a highway trooper who realizes that its best to stay out of Dusty’s business, Daisy starts mentally hearing cries of distress high in the sky. What swoops down to attack them is a monstrosity of a creature – a hippogriff formed out […]

Magic cards and trees

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

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These books were a pretty quick read and entertaining enough. They’re right in the middle – perfectly adequate and satisfactory but ultimately disposable. Basically, would I recommend these books? Maybe, after a long list of other books first. Would I dissuade you from reading them? Not at all. They are perfectly fine. In fact, even the flaws aren’t interesting enough to make me want to go discuss them in a thread. And you have seen me nitpick Onyx Storm. While some of the plot points […]

Lost tales or lost tension?

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

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This one was more of 3.5 for me, but rounded down because the others in the series were 4s. Overall, this was a pleasant book and if you liked the others ones in the series, you’ll enjoy this one. I can’t even quite put my finger on what I liked less about that one because all the points that come to mind don’t feel like they are quite the right explanation. I don’t think this was that vastly different from the other books and yet, […]

It’s All Starting to Come Together

The Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne

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It feels like it’s been a while since I enjoyed a second book in a trilogy or series as much or more than the previous novel, but this one just worked! Since the previous book had spent quite a bit of time on set up, it meant this one could take advantage of that and give us more action. Of course, as a middle novel, it doesn’t give us all the answers and some of the action also is a way to get the characters […]

Bergère d’Azur Infinie

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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Phoebe is a professor of Victorian literature; something which informs most of her decision-making. When her husband leaves her for a younger, more attractive colleague after a long fertility journey, Phoebe takes a page from her tragic heroines and decides she no longer wants to live. She checks into the beautiful if ostentatious Newport Hotel with the intent of swallowing a bottle of painkillers while enjoying an overpriced ocean view. The only problem is that the hotel has been fully booked by a wedding party, […]



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