Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Maybe I just thought I was a nonviolent person because in my old life, nobody had ever backed me into a corner with a knife to my throat.”

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

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Maggie wakes up one day, cold, naked and soaked to the skin in the gutter of Kair Toren, the sprawling capital city of Rellas, where her favourite fantasy novels are set. For the past decade, Maggie has read and re-read the two books in the unfinished series enough times that she knows the setting, … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:31 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Mea Gulpa

Famesick by Lena Dunham

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Lena Dunham and I have a long history together. I watched Girls at a time when its content was deeply resonant: a twenty-something living in a big city (look, okay, Brissie isn't exactly The Big Apple, but it felt big to me), making terrible dating decisions and being wildly short-sighted. But … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: ·

The Daevabad Trilogy: “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True love. Miracles.”

The City of Brass by Shannon Chakraborty

The Kingdom of Copper by Shannon Chakraborty

The Empire of Gold by Shannon Chakraborty

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It has been a while since I've made such dubious choices regarding reading hours as I did to read this trilogy. I read City of Brass at a decent pace and finished it in about 6 days. Kingdom of Copper lined up with a weekend so I ignored pretty much all of my responsibilities to finish in 2 days. … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Protector of the Small: Anything boys can do, Keladry can do better.

First Test by Tamora Pierce

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Squire by Tamora Pierce

Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce

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I love every Tortall main character (that I've read. I still haven't read the final series with Beka), but Keladry of Mindelan is hands-down my favorite Tortall MC and one of my favorite MCs ever. I adore her and her story. She is tenacious, hard working, grounded, tough, kind, unbendingly dedicated … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , ·

“It figured that she’d avoided getting nagged to go to law school, only to get nagged to become a vessel for the dead.”

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

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3.5 stars Jessamyn "Jess" Teoh is feeling aimless and adrift. Born and raised in the USA, she has just moved to Malaysia with her parents, and they're staying with one of Jess' aunts while her parents are looking for their own place to stay. Jess is unemployed, broke and hiding the fact that she … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:30 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Pretty Woman, if the woman is a penniless single mother rather than a leggy L.A call girl

Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan

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4.5 stars Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book will be out on May 26th. Dolly Brick is a problem solver and has spent most of her life taking care of her family. When her mother left Dolly, her father and her siblings when Dolly was far … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ·


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