Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

There’s a good reason for bikini armor

Heathen by Natasha Alterici, Ashley A. Woods

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Cbr18 Bingo – Craft: the main character crafted a Viking helmet with horns because she’s a heathen. (They’re antlers, but take that, Christians.) There are watercraft. Storytelling and story listening are both important to the narrative. Heathen is a comic book by Natasha Alterici, Ashley A. Woods, et al. I don’t know enough to say if it’s based on Norse mythology or not, but I know enough to say the story is based in it. It takes place a long time ago, but not that […]

World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon: With a demon as the MMC the burn was never going to be slow

World's Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon by Olivia Dade

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CBR Bingo: Justice – This whole book is about the Good Guys (TM) seeking the identities of those who set the zombies free in the last book, averting disaster, and trying to get justice the wrongs that have been done. Spoilers for ZomRomCom ahead. We met Gwen in the tail end of ZomRomCom. She’s is a pretty okay oracle, but her visions tend to be quite small. Until she has a head-splitting vision of the end of the world, even after the zombie apocalypse has […]

Flirting with Disaster: Hurricane season, but romantic

Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar

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CBR Bingo: Summer – The book takes place presumably during the summer because it’s hurricane season. But, maybe I don’t know enough about when hurricane season is or I’m already forgetting details that were directly mentioned in the book. I found this author through another reviewer here on Cannonball Read. I’ve been tearing through Romance and Romantasy with mixed results. So, when I saw a promising review for this author, I popped her books on my library holds list. This one came through first, and […]

Not what I expected; Exactly what I expected

Night's Fall by Kristen Ashley

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Oh, gentle reader… I thought I had broken myself of the Kristen Ashley habit. Longtime Cannonball Read participants will remember my earlier addiction to her books and my lamentations over them. And by lamentations, I mean my lamenting over my inability to quit reading books that made me want to scream in frustration over the way the female main characters were inevitably told to just get over bad behaviors by the male main characters due to their possessive, protective feelings about said female. I’m jerk […]

“…looking back at those pages, I shivered to see our plunge into darkness, day by day, without realizing it was a spiral, and its nadir, the abyss.”

The Year of the Wind: A Novel by Karina Pacheco Medrano

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Cbr18bingo Sheep. Sheep and other livestock are mentioned throughout the novel and sheep feature prominently in a particularly important scene Earlier in the year I reviewed Rabih Alameddine’s brilliant novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) and one of the things I noted in my review is that the narrator, who is a few years older than I am, describes growing up in Lebanon and Beirut in the 1970s/80s. I was in high school and college at that time, and […]

Reese Witherspoon Strikes Again

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

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There was a question I kept asking myself while reading Into the Blue by Emma Brodie, and after thinking it over I’ve decided that the answer is fifteen. The question is: How young would the author of this book have to be in order for me to find this impressive? To put it mildly, I was not a fan of this book, which reads like a self-insert wish fulfillment piece of fan-fiction. AJ, our protagonist, is the kind of girl who grows up dreaming of writing […]



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