Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

See, this is why you should stick to the zoo animals, Applegate

The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate

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Alright, Applegate, this is a vast improvement over the previous sequel to The One and Only Ivan. A small part of me wondered if they intentionally avoided mentioning The One and Only Bob on the cover, instead simply referring to it only as a sequel to The One and Only Ivan because the second book was not on par with the first, but I appear to be in the minority on that (based upon Goodreads reviews at least). But is it a fair fight when this one has a […]

Hollywood, and humanity, never cease disappointing me

Pageboy by Elliot Page

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I bought this one last year, knowing Page really only for his roles in Juno and Hard Candy, two of my favorite films, but wanting to get a better look into the struggles of the trans community. I’ve read many an LGBTQ book, even ones regarding asexuality/aromanticism, yet transexuality hadn’t really come into play in my reading yet, so it seemed high time. However, the book sat on my shelf for a little while, forgotten about. Primarily, it was due to me not reading much in the […]

The Booker Prize Winner of 2023 – Not exactly a prize winner for me

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

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Do you remember the movie A Time to Kill? This movie is almost 30 years old, which I think pretty much excludes it from the need for spoiler alerts, but in case you haven’t seen it, spoilers ahead: in this movie, Samuel L. Jackson’s daughter is brutally attacked by a crew of racist white men, and because he knows he won’t get any justice for his daughter from the legal system he takes his shotgun and openly murders the culprits (in a truly dramatic way, […]

Ethical Murderers

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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I picked up Scythe on a whim in a New Year’s sale – my local bookstore had a “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” table and I vaguely remember (it was a long time ago!) enjoying a previous book by the author, Neal Shusterman, so ended up picking this book as my “free” book. This was my first read of this year and also my first Cannonball read book review! I have been lurking for a while but decided to “take the plunge” this year (we’re […]

Scheming to the Finish Line

Crush the King by Jennifer Estep

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Evie’s been queen of Bellona for a year. While she’s survived plenty of sinister plots and assassination attempts, she knows that her position will never be secure until she can defeat the threat of Morta once and for all – and the Regalia Games seem to be the perfect time for that. This is the final book in the Crown of Shards trilogy. While I loved the first book, I found the second rather disappointing, so I was hoping that the author would be able […]

Free Will

System Collapse: The Murderbot Diaries Book 7 by Martha Wells

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I read all the previous Murderbot stories at the beginning of CBR14 (reviews here, here and here), and while the details of those novels were perhaps a little fuzzy for me when I started this latest Murderbot, I was quickly up to speed and enjoying the continuing saga of everyone’s favorite misanthropic human-robot hybrid. As usual I zipped through this and loved it for its snarky humor and for its development of Murderbot’s relationships with the humans it works for and the artificial intelligence it […]



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