Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I was not expecting to feel personally victimised by a Rainbow Rowell novel

Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell

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This may be a 3.5 star book, but I'm not actually sure right now. Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is out on April 14th. Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Los Angeles, working on turning his web comic-turned extremely successful graphic … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Honestly this was really well done, but the biggest issue I had was how slow parts were before things moved faster and we had all of the threads that were confusing at first tied up. I also think the … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:32 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , ·

More (Magical) Real Than The Regime

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar

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  I've been thinking a lot about why I appreciate magical realism but fantasy does nothing for me. For me, it reaches truths that fantasy (and other genres) can't quite grasp. It gives a voice to othered writers, be they minority writers or from the Global South, or more often than not, … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

“For as long as the axe has been in our hands, we have used it to kill.”

Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder by Rachel McCarthy James

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Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology—one that has been with us since prehistory. (I did not know we had telephones in prehistory, but hey-you learn something new everyday.) And to this day, even if its everyday use has been supplanted by … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

“Christ,” said Peter. “Hell is a campus.”

Katabasis: A Novel by R. F Kuang

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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has but one goal: to become one of the greatest in the field of Magick; to make all the sacrifices (her pride, her health, her love life, her self-respect, and most of all her sanity) worthwhile. All to … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

“All Shesheshen could do for Homily was be patient with her, and make space for her, and eventually, one day behind her back, eat her mother.”

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell

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Shesheshen is an amorphous lump who lives at the bottom of a pool in an abandoned house, hibernates during the winter, and occasionally shapeshifts into something vaguely  humanoid, wanders down to the village, and eats people. Only apparently bad people, but I guess you can't make the carnivorous … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Romance · Tags: , , , , , ·


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