Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I can feel it coming in the air tonight

A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

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Bingo Square: Joker (Carl is chaos personified) Quote: “That’s the problem with hitting the elites financially. Every time you hurt one, all it does is make another richer. That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads.” Throughout the series, the beginnings of the new novels and floors have tended to act as resets and completely shift the tone. Book 3 went from everyone working together at the end of the Iron Tangle to being separated for the Bubbles; Book 5 to Book […]

Event planning, succession and second chances at love

I Think They Love You by Julian Winters

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Bingo Square: Success (Denz has to figure out what success is for him) This was a cute second chance romance with fake dating that I mostly enjoyed. It’s third person limited, told entirely from Denz’s perspective, and as much as I liked Denz, I think being entirely in his head for the length of the entire novel made it feel a little longer than it was. I don’t necessarily have a preference between dual POV or single POV when it comes to romance but I […]

Man or dragon? Choose dragon

City of Dragons: Volume Three of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

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Cbr18bingo steal In this third volume of The Rain Wilds Chronicles, a variety of forces working against the dragons and their survival come to the fore. Some of those forces are natural but the most deadly threats are human in nature: politics, economics, greed, and desperation.  In City of Dragons, the party of dragons, their keepers and the crew of the liveship barge Tarman have arrived at Kelsingra, the fabled Elderling city, but their problems are far from over and their future is uncertain. The […]

This would have been better as a YA fantasy

Dominion by Jean Kwok

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CBR18 Bingo: 26 (published this year. This month, in fact) Thank you to G.P. Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Rubi is an azure, a group of displaced and badly treated refugees. In this fantasy world, there are four dominions, each with its own specialities. There is the Azure Dragon dominion, which can control plants and all things growing, and many of their people can shapeshift into animals; the Scarlet Phoenix dominion, which […]

I hear it now, This is SO You, giiiirl!

Halloween: Capturing the Spirit of New York City for Fifty Years, 1974–2024 by Larry Racioppo

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A book about my favorite holiday? You didn’t have to ask me twice, as this is so Me or works for the You cbr18bingo, Bingo Category. The cover of Halloween: Capturing the Spirit of New York City for Fifty Years, 1974–2024 by Larry Racioppo was what caught my attention: black and white graffiti and a masked Superman. This was the opposite of what I was used to; or so it felt. I knew that since I love Halloween I should at least browse it. Now […]

Justice for Wrongs Done

Soul Machine by Jordana Globerman

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There are bumps in the actual story arc of Soul Machine by Jordana Globerman. It feels as if this was book two or there was some sort of introduction in a previous book. We are never truly told what The Soul is (outside of assuming it is one’s “spiritual” soul), what the machine our cast of character use actually does, who are the customers of the company (outside of people, but why do they need them is not explained) and the characters, especially their backgrounds, […]



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