Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

As if going home wasn’t stressful enough without assassination attempts

Blood Jade by Julia Vee, Ken Bebelle

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This was the sequel to Ebony Gate, and is the middle book of the Phoenix Hoard trilogy – I quite enjoyed the novel, and thought this one worked better than the first one between balancing the world building and the pacing, but I am also disappointed to see that this is a trilogy. I know there is the bigger plotline that has been moving quickly so I shouldn’t be surprised but man, I want to get into a new long running urban fantasy series and […]

Asian inspired urban fantasy series? Yes, please

Ebony Gate by Julia Vee

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Emiko left her place at home and in her family two years ago, leaving Tokyo and all the politics behind for San Francisco. However, when a death god calls in on a blood talon (a commitment for a future favor in exchange for services rendered) given by Emiko’s mother, Emiko finds herself answering the call to protect her younger brother. Someone has stolen the gate between the realm of the dead and our world, and Emiko has less than 2 days to get the gate […]

Lady Green Snake and the Golden One

Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim

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Vanna and Channi are sisters, but they couldn’t be more different – while Vanna is blessed with a strange glowing beauty, Channi has been cursed with the face of a snake and poisonous blood. As Vanna’s seventeenth birthday approaches, Channi grows desperate to prevent her promised death at the hands of the demon witch Angma. I did not realize until about halfway through this book that it is a prequel to Lim’s Six Crimson Cranes duology, an East Asian-influenced retelling of the Six Swans that’s […]



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