Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Knight Like No Other

The Last Knight by Candice Proctor

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This is a medieval era romance, set in the time of Henry II , written by the same woman who penned the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries.  Candice Proctor is her real name, and she had written several historical romances as such before using the pen name C.S. Harris.  Having enjoyed that series so much, I was curious to see what her older books were like. Lady Attica d’Alerion is nineteen and betrothed for political reasons to a fourteen year old boy named Fulk the Fat.  While this prospect isn’t great, she knows that she doesn’t have much say in the […]

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6/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

“If you had the time to lose, an open mind and time to choose.”

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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  I avoided this book for years because I was told it was a romance novel and I have a prejudice against romance novels. Perhaps it was the seemingly endless supply of Harlequin books my mother seemed to devour. The closest I ever got was a minor obsession with V.C. Andrews which take a decidedly darker turn than the average “bodice ripper.” While I’m still not a fan of a straightforward romance novel, I have included books that fall under the “romance” umbrella into my TBR pile. This was the first and mostly like the most hefty in foray into […]

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6/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Much Ado About Harry

A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles

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This is the first book in a series called A Society of Gentlemen, a Regency set trilogy about the lives and loves of a group of young men.  The first one is somewhat of a take on  My Fair Lady, with Harry Vane being plucked from the gutter to take his place in society as an heir to a fortune.  His parents were radical reformists, and died for the cause, leaving Harry on his own.  HIs grandfather had disowned Harry’s father for his marriage and his views, but now searches Harry out when the other heirs passed away.  The only problem […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:55 |

A fantasy romance with a librarian heroine

The Pages of the Mind by Jeffe Kennedy

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3.5 stars From Goodreads: Magic has broken free all over the Twelve Kingdoms. The population is beset by shapeshifters and portents, landscapes that migrate, uncanny allies who are not quite human…and enemies eager to take advantage of the chaos.  Dafne Maillouix is no adventurer – she’s a librarian. But the High Queen trusts Dafne’s ability with languages, her way of winnowing useful facts from a dusty scroll, and even more important, the subtlety and guile that three decades under the thumb of a tyrant taught her. Dafne never thought to need those skills again. But she accepts her duty. Until […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:59 |

Excellent book, God-awful cover. Seriously, Avon Marketing Department, WTF?

White Hot by Ilona Andrews

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This is book 2 in a trilogy and if you’ve not read Burn for Me yet, that’s where you really should begin. While you could begin the story with this one, you’ll get a better introduction to the story, characters and world-building if you start with book 1. It’s been a few months since the events of the first book, and Nevada has been practising her abilities, learning more about what she can do and how she can control them. She insists makes Augustine Montgomery agree to let her question a suspected serial killer of little girls, in order to […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:58 |

It’s time to go to war

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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Spoiler warning! This review is going to contain spoilers for earlier books in the series, and possibly some mild ones for the content of this book too. If you’re not caught up, you probably want to skip this review for now. Come back when you’ve read the books, they’re worth your time if you like action-packed fantasy. The beginning of this book finds Fayre back at the Spring court, after Tamlin made a bargain with the the High King and had her bond with Rhysand broken. What only a select few know, is that Fayre is now High Lady of […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

To the stars who listen – and the dreams that are answered

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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Spoiler warning! This is book 2 in a series, and it’s impossible for me to review this book without giving some spoilers for the book that came before. If you haven’t read the first book, A Court of Thorns and Roses, you should maybe give this review a miss until you’re caught up. There will also be some spoilers for this book, because it’s impossible to talk about what happens in it without them. Feyre is back at the Spring Court a vastly changed woman, after her trials at Amarantha’s court Under the Mountain. While Tamlin and his court try […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:55 |

The girl in the bubble and the boy in black

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

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3.5 stars Madeleine has never left her house or been outside. She’s got a rare auto-immune disorder and lives in a house hermetically sealed, with special filters making sure nothing gets in that could hurt her. The only people she sees regularly are her mother, whose a doctor, and her nurse, Carla. On very special occasions, when he’s been decontaminated thoroughly, she’s allowed to meet one of her favourite tutors, but Madeline’s life is lived mostly vicariously through books and the internet, dreaming of the outside world. Everything changes when Oliver, or “Olly” and his family move in next door. […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:54 |

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