Cannonball Read 18

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Jennifer Hale should narrate more audiobooks

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

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#CBR15 Passport Challenge – Different genres (Sci-fi) 15-word review: Kira touches the wrong alien artifact and things escalate wildly from there. Excellent audio book. The audio book, which even listening at x1.5 speed felt like it lasted approximately forever, is narrated by Jennifer Hale and she does an amazing job. I was surprised to see, that with the exception of this and the upcoming follow-up (the book is set in the same universe, not sure if it’s a sequel, prequel, or companion novel), she has […]

If You Throw Away the First 3/4ths, You Might Have an Okay Book Left

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I’ll never admit that I’m a bright person; it took me until half way through the second book in this series to realize it was just Star Wars, but with dragons instead of the Force and lightsabers.  Which probably explains why I still love the first book, Eragon.  (See that?  That’s “dragon”, but with one letter changed.  That’s the level of cleverness we are working with here.) So this is the last book in the series, so we know Not Luke Skywalker is going to […]

The first half of this book is a joke, the second half is pretty okay, actually.

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This book is an unholy mess of contradictions and swirling tide pools of unnecessary words. So, there are one of two ways this review could go: 1) I think of every single criticism I can that bothered me while reading this book and I write them all down until the review balloons up to the size of a small baby elephant (which is a pretty big size for a review), also including the things I think it did right as well; or 2) I take the […]



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