Cannonball Read 18

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A Really Good Sequel

Sunsplitter by S. A. MacLean

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CBR18 BINGO: Season (the characters live and travel to places that are only ever 1 season) I liked this book quite a bit more than the first one. I was engaged the whole way through and never felt like it could stand to be shorter. It turns out there are immortal creatures that even daeyari are afraid of. Antal’s father Avroz enlists Antal to help track down one that has been hunting in the Season-Locked Planes, especially Antal’s territory. Fi joins the hunt, and chapters are from […]

Slightly predictable for a reader without making the characters seem obtuse

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

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While I liked the author’s previous duology, The Shepherd King, I didn’t love it. It was one of those where I quite enjoyed the magic system and the plotting but thought the characters needed a little bit more, and that they were missing some fairly obvious clues. I really enjoyed The Knight and the Moth – the main character just felt so much more developed. While I predicted quite a few of the developments that happened later, I also don’t think they were to the […]

“And Now I’m Covered in the Colors”

Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik

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As far as I am aware, this is Jessie Mihalik’s first full length fantasy novel but given how much I enjoyed her sci-fi romance novels, I was of course going to read this one. Well, to be clear I didn’t actually finish the third novel of Starlight’s Shadow because the couple was annoying me but the first one in that trilogy was so good! And the Consortium Rebellion is also very much worth checking out. And this book was just fun! Riela has lived in […]

A twist on Beauty and the Beast in this start to a romantic fantasy duology (I refuse to accept romantasy as a genre, you can’t make me)

Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik

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Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for this ARC. It has not affected my opinions or my review. About a year ago, the small village where Riela lives alone after the death of her father was threatened by a flood. Riela unlocked magical powers and managed to divert the water and save the village. Now one of the villagers has been savaged by a monster in the woods, and the mostly hostile villagers insist that she go into the forest and dispatch the monster for […]

Breaking the cycle of abusive power

The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem

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I was surprised how much I liked this duology, especially the first one in the series, given that it involved a genocide and two main characters that represented the oppressor and oppressed, a dynamic I usually stay far away from in historical fiction (and yet, between this and the Daevabad trilogy, it isn’t a dealbreaker in fantasy for me). I also appreciated that this series didn’t stretch into a trilogy needlessly and there was more than enough going on to justify a duology. Ten years […]

Game over, want to play again?

A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli

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I saw LB’s review of this and thought it sounded intriguing enough asa premise that I bookmarked it so remember for later. I still need to read the second one in the duology but overall enjoyed this. I will say, I was trying to overcomplicate this one a little bit with my guessing so you know, this might be more enjoyable as a read to just let it happen. As Mingshin lays dying at the foot of the throne at the hand of the man […]



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