Cannonball Read 18

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On the Trail of Murderous Magic

The Helm of Midnight by Marina J. Lostetter

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After the dangerous relic of a serial killer is stolen in a daring heist, Krona and her fellow Regulators must uncover the greater conspiracy at play and recover the mask to keep the murders starting up again from beyond the grave. Not only is this book is an intriguing mix of fantasy, suspense thriller, and horror, but it is also stuffed chock-ful of unique world-building and follows three separate POVs, each with their own storyline. It definitely is a lot, but the author does a […]

“You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I’d like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.”

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

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4.5 stars Sir Robert “Robin” Blyth ends up in a civil service position he is vastly unprepared for, as it turns out, he is supposed to be a liaison between the secret magical world and the more mundane regular world. Usually, the post is held by an individual from a magical family just unlucky enough not to have any magic of their own (seems like there are quite a few such “duds” in the magic-wielding families of society). Robin, on the other hand, is both […]

The Gale

The Gale by Mo Yan, Chengliang Zhu and Ying-Hwa Hu

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The Gale is a beautiful and sad story. It is also a unique story and the back story is as good, if not better, about how the inspiration came about. There was a lot of love that went into this story and creation of the book. Author Mo Yan, illustrator Chengliang Zhu, translator  Ying-Hwa Hu and adapter  Xiaoxiao Guan had their work cut out for them. This is a story that looks like it is going one way, but soon goes another. It blows around […]

A physically exhilarating and exhausting experience

My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel  by Chiara Lagani, Mara Cerri, Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante

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My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel  by Chiara Lagani (Adapter), Mara Cerri (Illustrator), Ann Goldstein (Translator), Elena Ferrante (Original author) Every so often I find a book, movie, song, or some form of entertainment that I both love and hate equally at the same time.  All I’m going to say about My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel the story is that it is a personal read that you love or not. I wonder how much it differs from the novel(s) and if more is told […]

Everybody Wants to Be Le Chat

To Catch a Thief by David Dodge

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To Catch a Thief is the story of John Robie, an American expatriate much accustomed to life in France. A trained acrobat, he made a living before the war as a notorious jewel thief who came to be known in the newspapers as “Le Chat.” After eventually slipping up and getting caught, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Fate intervenes in the form of the German army, who release all the inmates in a bid to inculcate chaos in the […]

Of Wasps and Other Incryptids

Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire

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While I usually end up staying up too late whenever Seanan McGuire releases a new novel because I need to know what will happen, this novel took me longer to read than any other of her previous books (a whole 3 days so nothing drastic). However, while this one took longer than normal to truly pull me in, I ultimately quite enjoyed it and how McGuire managed to bring together and resolve threads that had been pending for several novels, changing the status quo of […]



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