Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A very sweet adventure story, gorgeously packaged

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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4.5 stars Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Celestial (there is a big moon and several stars on the cover) What if in The Princess Bride, Buttercup didn’t sit at home and mourn for Westley when he was captured by pirates, but instead went off to try to rescue him? Of course, that would mean Buttercup had any agency at all in either the novel or the film, and she really doesn’t. But if Buttercup was a young woman named Tress, from a barren and fairly desolate […]

“Have you not shaken a kingdom to its foundations, found a door to a distant otherland, overthrown a queen? Hand you the right storybook, and you are capable of anything.”

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

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Nowhere Books Bingo 2025: A fantasy book by a female author Buzzword Cover Challenge 2025: Contains books Spoiler warning! This is book 3 in the series and not the best place to start reading. This book will contain spoilers for the previous books in the series. Start at the beginning, with Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries. Intrepid professor of dryadology (faerie scholar) Emily Wilde is facing her most challenging adventure yet – reclaiming the rather terrifying faerie kingdom of Silva Lupi, where her former academic […]

“We are messes and we are messed up and I don’t want to go through this world without the one person I can’t hide from and who can’t hide from me.”

The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black

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CBR16 Sweet Books: Excited (this is one of my most anticipated releases in the first half of the year) This book really doesn’t stand alone. It is the second half of a duology that started with The Stolen Heir, which came out last year. If you haven’t read that one, it’s probably best to skip this review and return once you’ve caught up. Prince Oak, heir to the throne of Elfhame, finds himself a prisoner in the dungeons of Queen Suren (or Wren, as he […]

More books I read this summer and am only reviewing now to make it to 104

Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire

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Cassiel’s Servant – Jacqueline Carey Rating: 3.5 stars Kushiel’s Dart is one of my favourite fantasy books, and books in general, of all time. It stands up, I re-read it this summer in preparation for the release of this. Has Jacqueline Carey done exactly the same thing as Stephenie Meyer and E.L James did, and retold her already existing novel from the POV of another central character? Yes, she has. Was I pretty sure that this was going to be a lot more worthwhile and […]

The Dragon, the Princess and the Assassin

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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Disclaimer! This was an ARC from Netgalley (but I have also paid to buy the book myself, after reading it). My opinions are my own. Every one hundred years, the king of the Sheltered Lands has to send one heir to serve as consort to the ancient dragon god who acts as its protector and guardian. The previous consort went mad with fear not long after bonding with the Dragon, and Ash, the Dragon, worries that history will repeat itself. Ash has lived for over […]

A fun read in the run-up to Halloween

The Ex-Hex by Erin Stirling

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Heartbroken after discovering that the gorgeous young man she’d spent all summer with may in fact have a “betrothed” back in Wales, Vivienne “Vivi” Jones gets very drunk and weepy and she and her cousin light some candles and throw together a curse, to make Vivi feel better. They think nothing of it, until nine years later, when Rhys Penhallow, Vivi’s ex, and descendant of Graves Glen’s founding father returns to charge the ley lines. Suddenly there are murderous plastic toy skulls, a talking cat, […]



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