Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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World of the White Rat: A Kingfisher-palooza or An Embarrassment of Paladins

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: You – As in, “It was always you.” Or, “I love you.” It could work for several of these books, but let’s say Paladin’s Faith. When I first read the Paladin’s one and two (Grace and Strength) earlier this year, I was pretty underwhelmed. And then I was sad that I was underwhelmed because they really felt like they should be in my wheelhouse. So, I put aside T. Kingfisher for a while. I figured if I came back and liked her books […]

Swordheart: I never thought I would read this many books in a year and I’ve run clean out of taglines

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Wealth – The whole story starts with a moderate amount of wealth being left to Halla by a deceased granduncle, and her quest to get it back for the sake of her own nieces. Halla is the widowed housekeeper of Silas, her dead husband’s now-dead granduncle. Halla was, apparently, the only relative that spent much time with Silas because he left his estate to her, much to the chagrin of his nasty blood relatives. They have locked Halla up until she comes to […]

World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon: With a demon as the MMC the burn was never going to be slow

World's Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon by Olivia Dade

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CBR Bingo: Justice – This whole book is about the Good Guys (TM) seeking the identities of those who set the zombies free in the last book, averting disaster, and trying to get justice the wrongs that have been done. Spoilers for ZomRomCom ahead. We met Gwen in the tail end of ZomRomCom. She’s is a pretty okay oracle, but her visions tend to be quite small. Until she has a head-splitting vision of the end of the world, even after the zombie apocalypse has […]

Flirting with Disaster: Hurricane season, but romantic

Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar

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CBR Bingo: Summer – The book takes place presumably during the summer because it’s hurricane season. But, maybe I don’t know enough about when hurricane season is or I’m already forgetting details that were directly mentioned in the book. I found this author through another reviewer here on Cannonball Read. I’ve been tearing through Romance and Romantasy with mixed results. So, when I saw a promising review for this author, I popped her books on my library holds list. This one came through first, and […]

my first finished bingo card!

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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CBR Bingo: What I have left is season, I can’t think of a way to shoehorn this into that so we’re just calling this one my Free square–which means, yes, a completed bingo card!!! Since bingo came out AND I decided I needed to get back on this reading horse, I’ve written every review within 24 hours (12, really) of finishing a book AND committed to finishing another two off my back log (on average–one time I did four and then only wrote two the […]

a gifted book of low-class hijinks

Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn

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CBR Bingo: Joker, in that way about how the court jester can stand and laugh at everyone? I just feel like the book has that vibe, where everything is just circus antics and Astrid is watching her life collapse around her. A gift from my lovely friend Eunice, a reminder that life can toss you kindred spirits in many interesting ways (I grumpily assumed she was responsible for my drain backing up, got her number from her lease manager, stomped up to complain and promptly […]



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