Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Surprisingly, her utter lack of brains or personality is not her “Defect”

Conform by Ariel Sullivan

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Oh my god, this book. There are so many ways someone could have taken this premise and done something with it but it would have required some world building that makes sense. Or a protagonist that isn’t a wet blanket but also the most special girl to ever live. Supposedly Emeline is 27 but I would have just as easily believed she was a pod person created the day before the book started. This is a society built on class and eugenics. The very top […]

“I wasn’t just going to abandon you, Carl,” Donut said. “Who do you think I am? Miss Beatrice?”

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

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Carl, Donut and Mongo have made it to the fourth level of the dungeon. This time, there are trains. So many trains. The game appears to have constructed a labyrinthine tangle of all of the world’s underground railway systems, and there are new and strange rules to get used to. There are bounties awarded to anyone who kills any of the players in the top ten, which now include both Carl and Donut. There are all manner of strange monsters on the various trains and […]

“People – a group comprised of every sapient species, organic or otherwise – were chaos, but chaos was good. Chaos was the only sensible conclusion.”

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

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Monthly Keyword Challenge 26: Ground Nowhere Book Bingo 26: A book that came out more than 4 years ago Defeating the Goblin TBR 26: The Gizmo Book (A Sci-fi or Dystopian book) Reading Rainbow – Indigo cover The planet of Gora doesn’t have much to recommend itself to anyone, except as a stopover for travellers to other, more interesting parts of space. Travellers can rest, refuel, eat, restock their supplies and update any permits that might be required. It’s like an interstellar truck stop between […]

The Fifth Season: Funny how oppression is never the answer that the oppressors hope it is.

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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A good friend gave me this book a few years ago as a very strong recommendation for the series. Intending to read it right away, I immediately purchased the rest of the trilogy. Then they sat on my shelf for a while. After reading Amina Al-Sirafi, I wanted to dig into Shannon Chakraborty’s trilogy. So, off I skipped to the local bookshop only to find that they had 1 and 3 in stock, but #2 would take a few weeks to arrive. Rather than be […]

When you fight evil instead of slumber at your slumber party

Unocorn Boy V02 Unicorn Boy and the Slumber Party of Doom! by Dave Roman

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I really liked the first Unicorn Boy by Dave Roman. It was both new and fresh, plus also familiar. I liked that combination. The fantasy elements are fun, the LGBTQ elements on point, I thought the humor was mostly laughing out loud. Sure, some were a bit “kid centered” but that doesn’t mean an adult could like it. Then I read via an online reader Unicorn Boy and the Slumber Party of Doom! (Unicorn Boy #2) by Dave Roman. It is due in early May […]

Space: It’s the friends we meet

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Well… better late than never I guess! I’m getting this review in barely a month before the film comes out and embarrassingly I actually bought this book in hardback when it came out – the signed copy is sitting on my bookshelf mocking me. I actually ended up buying it again on Kindle towards the end of last year after seeing the film trailer and loving it, I don’t know why I delayed because I love the Martian, both book and film, and even tolerated […]



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