Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“She’d played so many parts she hardly knew which one was her. She was an onion made of only skins with nothing at the centre.”

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

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Nowhere Book Bingo 26: Book rec from a friend (Ashley/Narfna loved this) Defeat the Goblin TBR: The Rogue Book – a book with politics/intrigue/sneakery involved (this book has all three and lots of it) CBR18 Bingo: Left (All of my fiction books are alphabetised by author, so Abercrombie comes to the very top left of the bookshelf it’s placed on) A cowardly monk. A mercenary. A vampire. A werewolf (who used to be a viking warrior). An elf. A necromancer. A knight who cannot die. […]

Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen

Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I struggled a lot to finish this one. I almost DNFed it a few times because I honestly just felt like I was just reading random sentences with no real logic behind the plots of this book. And then the last 20 percent of the book was one character telling another character (slowly) about something that happened that readers had known about since the first part of the […]

A beautiful story about a possible alien child

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

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I missed this book in my recent extreme review catch up. I was laying in bed last night thinking “what about that alien girl book?” because I didn’t remember writing about it. Anyway, here we are. Our main character is Joanna, a bird researcher who’s recovering from losing her mother and some of her womanhood after surviving breast cancer. She’s staying at a cabin and doing research on nests for the summer, and kinda hiding from the rest of the world. Then randomly one day […]

O Hey! Johnnie Cope are ye waukin’ yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet?

The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean

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After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left injured on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally scarred from grapeshot, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life as a bookshop owner in Inverness. One day,  he notices a stranger lurking in the upper gallery of his shop, poring over his collection of Lord Lovat, the Old […]

“Alright. Let’s go rescue a corpse from some shrubbery.”

The Resurrectionist: A Novel by A. Rae Dunlap

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Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. (Side effect of this being that his father apparently drops dead of the horror, a fact that his family will never let him live down. Ah well; you win some, you lose some.) Edinburgh is where medical discovery is at in the age of New Enlightenment, and the city’s university offers everything James desires to get his career going—except […]

“Worthwhile literature; a book that deals with some social or moral issue in an earnest, plodding, and pessimistic manner. What Aida, who was also a member, called “reading to slit your wrists by”.

Probable Caws: A Meg Langslow Mystery (#39) by Donna Andrews

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While this may not have been the best Meg book, just like Seanan McGuire or Terry Pratchett, Donna Andrews’ “not-so-goods” are better than some people’s “top-tier A-level”. Has to be one off the more interesting murderer reveals I’ve read in a very long time. In this, the 39th book in the series (which will make no sense unless you’ve read the other 38), Meg has finally found time to get some blacksmithing done; she has a candelabra to make for her mother’s interior design firm, […]



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