Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Taking the easy joke here, this book made me want to die inside.

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

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I had a hard time deciding between one and two star rating for Dying Inside, as it was well written and the literary voice was engaging. But I found this to be vile. A sexist, racist, masturbatory exploration of a really cool concept. Dude took the laziest option and tried to be profound with it. … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:45 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

I’m so curious what Jemisin will do next.

The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) by N.K. Jemisin

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This was a good ending to this series. It's still not my favorite thing from N.K. Jemisin, but I very much enjoyed reading it (and it's a fast read). I'm also glad that we didn't get the original story or ending that Jemisin had planned (she talks about it in her author's note); it sounded much … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:44 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , , , ·

I’m so sad about it, but this was so flawed.

The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1) by Aiden Thomas

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This was fine. But "fine," after reading this author's wonderful debut, Cemetery Boys, is not enough. I feel like there were so many flaws baked in to this book before the author even started writing it, and they didn't do enough to overcome them. The worldbuilding choices made in this book baffled … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

“‘Why would anyone love a monster?’ asked Perseus. ‘Who are you to decide who is worthy of love?’ said Hermes. ‘I mean, I wasn’t…’ ‘And who are you to decide who is a monster?’”

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

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I knew I was going to like this, but I didn't quite expect to like it as much as I did. Sometime in the near future, we're going to hit the saturation point for Greek mythology retellings in the literary marketplace, but it seems we're at the peak right now, and it can be hard to sort out the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:42 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Wow, what a bummer.

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

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It's actually pretty impressive how this book could take super interesting subject matter and make it this dull. This book did absolutely nothing for me, except make me wish it was over. I can't entirely pinpoint why, so I'm chalking it up to disliking the style it was written in, but there were … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Those brown eyes full of silver moonlight focused and her gaze found his as he took her into a dance for two instead of one.

Wings Once Cursed and Bound by Piper J Drake

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I liked this a lot. Wings Once Cursed and Bound is an intriguing start to a paranormal romance series. It is getting marketed as “for fans of Sarah J Maas and Jennifer Armentrout,” which I think is setting up assumptions about the book that won’t hold up. It is a fantasy romance, but it’s set in an … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Fantasy, Religion · Tags: , , , , ·


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