Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Too much old, not enough new in the Box

The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey

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The Everything Box got a lot of attention when it first came out, but I’ve only just now gotten to it. I don’t quite understand what all the hype was about. Yes this is an entertaining adventure story with amusing characters, but I didn’t love it. I enjoyed it, but it just wasn’t as awesome as I was hoping. 3.5 stars. First, it’s so strongly reminiscent of Good Omens (by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman) in terms of characters and plot that it comes off a little unoriginal to me. Coop is the Warlock/Adam character with a tough of Shadow […]

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7/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:49 |

Hello darkness, my old friend

White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

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3.5 stars This is book seven in an ongoing series. Not the place to start. The review will also contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. Begin with Dead Witch Walking, if you’re interested. For someone who was really rather sceptical to anything but earth magic, considering even layline magic a bit suspect at the beginning of this series, independent runner (think supernatural private detective/bounty hunter) Rachel Morgan has sure come a long way. Now she’s not only a fairly adept layline witch, but her blood (thanks to a rare genetic abnormality) can kindle demon magic and because of […]

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5/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:47 |

Rachel really makes for the most hilariously inappropriate bridesmaid ever

For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

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4.5 stars This is book five in a series, and most definitely not the best place to start. Begin with Dead Witch Walking, and possibly skip this review if you don’t want spoilers for earlier books in the series. There are dead werewolf women turning up in the morgue, apparently having committed suicide. Someone else appears to be murdering werewolves after keeping them tied up, and after some investigation, independent runner and calamity-prone witch Rachel Morgan is pretty sure she knows what the connection between all the deaths is. During her last adventure, she retrieved an ancient and very powerful […]

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4/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Double-crossing demons is dangerous

Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

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4.5 stars This is book three in a series. This review will contain spoilers for previous books in the series, so if you mind that sort of thing, skip this, and start at the beginning, with Dead Witch Walking. Never one to live a quiet life, Rachel Morgan, independent witch for hire is in trouble. She successfully took down the master vampire who was summoning demons to murder leyline witches and lived to tell the tale. She had to bargain with a demon in order to do so, and he now wants to make her his familiar. She tricks Algaliarept, […]

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3/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

A witch, a vampire and a pixie walk into a bar

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

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Rachel Morgan is an earth witch (which means she uses wooden charms activated with drops of her own blood to do magic, as opposed to layline witches who draw their power from laylines) and works for the IS (Inderland Security), a police force consisting of supernaturals like witches, living vampires, werewolves, fairies and pixies. They police the supernatural crimes, while the FIB (Federal Inderland Bureau) is its mundane, human counterpart. For the last year, Rachel has had a run of truly awful assignments and what seems like very bad luck on top of things. She’s sick and tired of being […]

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3/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Teenagers and Demons, Oh My!

City of Bones: Book 1 of the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

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  I read this so my teenage sister-in-law would have someone to talk to about it, and….meh? There were some good things about it; there were even times when I laughed or had feelings for the characters, but that didn’t happen until around page 240…..Now, that doesn’t mean this book is bad. I’m just not the intended audience. It’s a YA, which I typically have issues with anyway, and its’ about hell-beasts, and demons, and teenagers with feels, and I’m a 30-year-old woman who doesn’t have time for that sh*t. I spent a decent part of the books wanting to smack […]

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1/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

I always feel like a chump for having zero magical powers when clearly the world is full of magicians and superpowered beings!

The Everything Box: A Novel by Richard Kadrey

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The Everything Box is superfun! I added it to my library queue after some happy Cannonball Read reviews, and am so glad I did. I read almost this entire book in one sitting. I would best describe this as Neil Gaiman Lite, which is NOT a criticism. There is a richness missing that would make it a full Gaiman experience, but sometimes you don’t need the bone marrow spread on top of the rib-eye on top of cheesy polenta. Sometimes you just want a salad with some grilled skirt steak, and maybe a little avocado. Sorry; I just had surgery […]

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6/28/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:25 |

The Pros and Cons of Fillers

The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones

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Charley Davidson has amnesia.  She’s currently living in New York as a Jane Doe working in a bar/restaurant.  She’s leaning things about herself (she see dead people, know multiple languages and can tell when people lie), but doesn’t feel she can talk to anyone about these things.  Some people think she’s faking the amnesia and thus treat her like dirt.  Other people seem to like her, but she’s not sure why.  Life isn’t normal, but she’s getting by. This is the ninth book in the Charley Davidson series and it’s obviously just filler for whatever is going to happen in […]

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3/2/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:9 |

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