Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I don’t really find the idea of a snake vampire all that appealing

Archangel's Viper by Nalini Singh

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3.5 stars This is book 10 in an ongoing series, so really not the place to start. The first book in the series is Angels’ Blood. This review will contain some spoilers for that book. Holly Chang, who for a while renamed herself Sorrow, was the only survivor of the terrible carnage perpetrated when the archangel Uram went crazy and kidnapped her and all her friends and proceeded to torture and kill most of them. He forced Holly not only to drink his blood, but to watch […]

Angels Rule the World

Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh

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After reading Nalini Singh’s short story in Burning Up, I delved into her Archangel series starting with Angels’ Blood. The author celebrated a birthday on Sept 7th. I’m already on the third entry, so it was mere luck I was able to use this review for the Birthday #CBR11Bingo square. We are introduced to Elena Deveraux, a fierce vampire hunter who was born (or cursed according to her father) with the power to track vampires my scent. In this reality, angels are out in the […]

A silly tale of the end times

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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Good Omens, The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch was my first foray into the mind of Terry Pratchett. It was my fourth read from Neil Gaiman. I know, I know, I need to read more Pratchett. Since I enjoyed this collaboration, I definitely will soon. The book follows two unlikely friends Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, who must stop the end of the world. They’ve known each other since the Garden of Eden. They kept in touch despite working for […]

He thinks she’s his angel

Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie #1) by Victoria Selman

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OMG.  This is the second series (maybe EVER) that I started at the first book!  I don’t remember how I found it, but it might’ve been a Kindle First book. Ziba Mackenzie is a profiler of Israeli descent who was married to a Scotsman.  Her husband had died about a year prior and she was called back into work to profile a new / old / new again serial killer. She starts out getting into a train crash.  Her cop instincts kick in and she […]

God Bless the Gargoyles and us, too

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I absolutely love the illustrations in God Bless the Gargoyles. Dav Pilkey has stepped away from his more humorous stories and gone a spiritual and Christian route. The nod to a famous painting also is a neat treat. While the story is religious (the Church, the story of gargoyles and angels), it is not “in your face” overly religious. It is more of a spiritual story. However yet, it is not for a non-believer.   I would have like more history of the gargoyle. It […]

#CBR10 Bingo: Backlog – Outcast

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3.5 stars #CBR10Bingo: Backlog (has been on my TBR list since June 2013) Riley Carver lives in a little town somewhere in the Southern USA. For the past six years, on a particular day, angels come from the heavens and take away some of the townspeople. One year ago, the angels took Riley’s best friend, almost boyfriend, Chris. So she’s refusing to to leave the house (even though the whole town is supposed to the public celebration – or face strong censure), and when she sees […]



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