Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Daughter of the Lioness: Land Back, but make it fantasy

Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce

Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce

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The Daughter of the Lioness duet is the final set in the Tortall series that I will be re-reading. There’s also the Beka Cooper books that I’ve never read and the first of the unfinished Numair series, but I’ll be moving away from Tortall after this. Until this point, we’ve been moving further and further away from the Mary Sue of it all. At the beginning we had Alanna. Alanna was imbued with skills and abilities that are unbelievable for any eleven-year-old to possess, like […]

A little less conversation, a little more action please

The Secrets We Hide (North Falls #2) by Karin Slaughter

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Sherrif Emmy Clifford and her retired FBI sister Jude have just returned from their mother’s funeral when they hear shots being fired at the house of Emmy’s erstwhile friend Alison. Inside, Alison is found dead and her daughter critically injured. Emmy investigates and before long, suspicion falls upon Alison’s abusive husband Bill. He is the obvious suspect and the sleepy, sedate, tight community of the town of North Falls rallies for Emmy to arrest him, but Emmy is not so sure and the more she […]

Eat the Rich Unless they were protagonists earlier in the series

Shattered Gods by Katee Robert

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I probably should have given up on this series a few books back but there must have been a bit of sunk cost fallacy going on. And it’s a romance series – there’s always the possibility it could have bounced back to the early peaks. More broadly/generally speaking, I have noticed in the past, that sometimes when an author takes a character that is a bit of a fan favorite and beloved, and finally gets to their novel, the novel is disappointing. I think that […]

I wish most of this book didn’t feel like homework

Prince of Storms by Kit Rocha

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3.5 stars Thank you to Montlake and NetGalley for this ARC. This book is on sale now. Naia, Einar and Aleksi return to the ice queen’s island to figure out who tried to kidnap them and are soon joined by all the other deities of the High Court of the Sheltered Lands, concerned about them and wondering exactly who is behind this most recent plot. As Naia’s powers keep growing and she needs to use them to protect the innocent residents of the island from […]

Magic, Heists, Revenge

The Feywild Job by C. L. Polk

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I always find reading therapeutic, even if it’s just an escape into a story. Sometimes I read the perfect book at the perfect time. I’ve been going through a friend break-up and I picked up The Feywild Job at just the right moment for its magic to work on me. Saeldian and Kell have to come to terms with the way their partnership ended ten years earlier in order to survive the job they’ve been tricked into. The Feywild Job opens with Saeldian as a […]

The author looks like someone who would write about a pickle

The Wise Pickle by Sarah Howden

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One will never look at a pickle the same way again.  Or you won’t after reading The Wise Pickle by Sarah Howden and illustrated by Sabina Hahn. Due mid/later June 2026 I read this book via an online copy. First, be prepared to witness weirdness. I mean a talking pickle for starters is really just the start of the weirdness. And second, be prepared to be amazed (by the fact there is a talking pickle who is a wise old soul. Or not). And finally […]



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