Cannonball Read 18

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Here there be Dragons and friendship

Dragon Night by J.R. Krause

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Dragon Night is one of those books after reading (and even while reading) I was thinking, “Do I/did I like this?” The answer is, “YesBut.”  A “YesBut” is: Yes, I liked 99.9% of this But there is something I do not. And the thing is, I am not sure what it is about J.R. Krause’s story about being afraid of the dark and overcoming it, about the meaning of words night and knight and about friends and special friendships that is just a smidgen off. […]

Who hasn’t know a Unicorn?

Unicorn Is Maybe Not So Great After All by Bob Shea

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I am not sure how Unicorn Is Maybe Not So Great After All by Bob Shea compares to the first book (Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great) as I have not read it (or if I have, it made no impression whatsoever). This time Unicorn is jealous of the new “hot thing” (rubber bands looking like other things: a soccer ball, wagon wheel, port holes…) and tries to make a new and improved Unicorn. Of course, the plan backfires with a face full of glitter. A […]

All you need is a sweet dragon friend, a flower and a little spunk to get you through the day

Rosie and Rasmus by Serena Geddes

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Rosie and Rasmus is a classically feeling book with modern language. Serena Geddes’s story is straight forward (a girl wishes she had a friend but is too shy to go play with the others and the other children never see her just standing off to the side). But when she wanders off and meets a dragon named Rasmus, she has a grand time playing, having adventures and learning a big lesson. The part that can help you interact with the book is one can use […]

It’s Not for Everyone, But the Mad Fans Will Appreciate

Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin

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The Game of Thrones TV series is hurtling towards a conclusion, and George R. R. Martin has still hasn’t given us a release date for the Winds of Winter. Sadly, this leaves those of us who started with the original book series, A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF), pining pathetically in wait. So I could understand that for many readers, Fire and Blood may not have been the exact thing they were clamouring for. It’s not as if we haven’t been exposed to any […]

A lovely book with a beautiful cover

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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4.5 stars Because tradition dicatates it, each year on a certain day, the council of elders in the Protectorate take an infant and leave it in the woods as a sacrifice to the witch. Bad things will happen to the settlement if they don’t (although no one is really clear what dire consequences there will be, because there has never been a time when they didn’t place a child in the woods). Normally, the grieving family whose child has been selected meekly go along with […]

Part 2 of the trilogy is the worst, even in book 3

The Dragon Lords Bad Faith by Jon Hollis

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The Dragon Lords: Bad Faith is divided into 3 parts, and is itself part 3 of a trilogy. I rather enjoyed part 1 (Fools Gold), hated part 2 (False Idols), and part 3 was kind of meh. It wasn’t as bad as part 2 with no one to root for, and it added some good characterization and a few new characters, but it was also 200 pages too long. The second part of the book is ironically yet appropriately titled “Bad Decisions”, one of which […]



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