Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Some folks is brushed by the hand o’ God. Some folks brushed by that Other One.

Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2) by Balogun Ojetade

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I wanted to like this so much. It sounds so interesting – a supernatural, steam punk adventure with a Gifted Harriet Tubman in an alternate universe. I am so disappointed, because I did not connect with this book at all. It was too gory for my reading pleasure, and I never felt like I had a minute to breath and get to know the characters. Harriet Tubman, in real life, was the kind of badass that puts fictional badasses to shame. I have no problem with an author giving her superpowers, but it should always be noted that Harriet Tubman […]

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5/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

Well, THAT was Totally Unexpected

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

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“To call the scene a disaster does it a terrific disservice. The final death toll was never fully calculated, for heaven only knew how many bodies might lie wedged in the rubble. And alas, there was no time for excavation.” – Hale Quarter

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4/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

An excellent book with a few concerns.

Underground Airlines by Ben Winters

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I’ll be honest: it really concerned me that this book was written by a white guy. I have hesitations about whether this is entirely his story to tell, and I’d like to hear a POC’s perspective on it. I think it was written and handled well, but I’m saying that will the full awareness that it’s not fully mine to judge. Frankly, this is a story that includes the n-word a lot and presents the first person perspective of a Black man in a world where slavery was never abolished in four states. There are points in the story where […]

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2/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:5 |

The Phantom of the Slaughterhouse doesn’t sing, but he does build creepy mechanical spiders

Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine

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3.5 stars Wen, a young woman, whose family were clearly of a higher social status before her mother got sick and died, now works as a doctor’s apprentice for her father. Wen and her father are Itanyai. They both live in a large factory complex, Gochan One, treating to the workers of a large slaughterhouse. In the same larger compound, there is a factory producing textiles and one making advanced war machines, to further the military might of their country. Most of the workers at the factory know that the bosses charge them heavily for uniforms, lodgings and clothes, but […]

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2/2/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

Where the Devil’s Always Watching

The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gilman

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East of the Mississippi and as far west as they eye can see, right up until you hit the mountains themselves, is the Devil’s territory. And he protects his own.

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1/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

A Modern Spin on the Underground Railroad

Underground Airlines by Ben Winters

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Underground Airlines made a lot of Best of 2016 lists, and I was lucky enough to snap it up at the library before the hold list got too long. It’s a story about what the world would look like if the Civil War had never happened, and slavery was still legal in America. Not surprisingly, it’s kind of a horrifying look. The protagonist is something of a bounty hunter, tracking down escaped slaves before they can make it to Canada and freedom, and his personal journey as a doer of such deeds drives the narrative. It’s really well written and […]

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1/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

Tudor royals, books, shapeshifters and all manner of complications

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows

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According to history, when King Edward VI, Henry VIII’s son died young and childless, certain noblemen who wanted to make sure a ruler of the Protestant faith ruled the country put his young cousin Lady Jane Gray on the throne. She ruled for nine days, before Mary Tudor arrived with her armies, removed the poor girl and had her beheaded. This book bears a vague resemblance to that story. In the England of this story, the conflict in England isn’t between Catholics and Protestants, it’s between non-shapeshifters, also known as Verities, and shapeshifters, better known as eðians (pronounced eethians). King […]

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12/30/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:133 |

Indescribably mediocre YA steampunk.

Leviathan (Leviathan, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

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I don’t know what happened here. How a book about an alternate history steampunk WWI where one side has Clankers, and the other genetically engineered flying beasts that double as airships could be so exceptionally uninteresting and generic, I really don’t know. Also one of the MC’s is the son of the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand. And the other is a girl who dresses as a boy! Also, also it was narrated by Alan Cumming! And yet, my mind wandered constantly while listening, and I had to force myself to finish. Maybe I shouldn’t have done audio on this one. […]

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12/28/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:157 |

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