Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Every Age Must Come to an End” is an ominous beginning

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth trilogy vol. 1 by N.K. Jemisin

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A few years ago I came across an excellent review of N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms,  book one of the Inheritance trilogy, and was instantly intrigued.  It was put on my “in case of birthday or Christmas, please buy me” list and fortunately I received it later that year.  I was blown away by Jemisin’s incredibly creative world building and could not put the book down.  The third book in the Inheritance trilogy did not hold up as well as the first two, but the series as a whole had me eagerly looking for other works by Jemisin. I received The […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

“Stories are the wildest thing of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Pretty much every night, Conor wakes up screaming from the same nightmare. So when the monster shows up in his garden, just after midnight, he’s not as scared as you may have thought that he’d be. After all, he deals with some pretty unpleasant things on a daily basis. The bullies who pick on him in school. The fact that he seems to be falling out with his only friend. The teachers either ignoring him or being overly understanding and solicitous. His father, who seems to have forgotten about him and his mother after he moved to America and got […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

It’s time to go to war

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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Spoiler warning! This review is going to contain spoilers for earlier books in the series, and possibly some mild ones for the content of this book too. If you’re not caught up, you probably want to skip this review for now. Come back when you’ve read the books, they’re worth your time if you like action-packed fantasy. The beginning of this book finds Fayre back at the Spring court, after Tamlin made a bargain with the the High King and had her bond with Rhysand broken. What only a select few know, is that Fayre is now High Lady of […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

To the stars who listen – and the dreams that are answered

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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Spoiler warning! This is book 2 in a series, and it’s impossible for me to review this book without giving some spoilers for the book that came before. If you haven’t read the first book, A Court of Thorns and Roses, you should maybe give this review a miss until you’re caught up. There will also be some spoilers for this book, because it’s impossible to talk about what happens in it without them. Feyre is back at the Spring Court a vastly changed woman, after her trials at Amarantha’s court Under the Mountain. While Tamlin and his court try […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:55 |

A tale of three cities

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

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In the world of V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy, in which this is the first book, there are parallel worlds. There used to be gateways between them, but now only the magical Antari (identified by having one normal and one fully black eyeball) are able to travel through to the various worlds, using their blood and magical ability. Young Kell, fostered with the royal family in Red London is one of these Antari. In each of the four worlds, there is a London, the geographical location of which overlaps. There is Grey London, which is the England of George III, […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:53 |

Get it together, Fitz

Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb

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Fool’s Quest is the second book in the Fitz and the Fool trilogy, having left Fool’s Assassin with Bee (and Shun) having been kidnapped by the Servants and a group of Chalcedean mercenaries. Here we catch up with Fitz….not hot on their heels, as he’s instead consumed by caring for the Fool, who’s been returned to him a broken man but one intent on having Fitz wreak vengeance upon those who harmed him. The Witmaster is on at Fitz to take a new partner, and to top it all off he’s also been outed at court as Prince FitzChivalry Farseer, […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

More Harry Magic

White Night by Jim Butcher

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I read the first in Jim Butcher’s new series and kinda liked it, so I figured I’d check out his other stuff. I read the first Dresden novel, and though it was only ok. Then I saw that multiple people were saying that the Dresden series only gets good after about book 4. My local library does not have the entire series thus far, and the branch near me does not have all of the book in the order I might want them (chronologically). So I’ve been reading them a bit out of order. This seems to work out ok, […]

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6/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Sanderson does detective fiction with a sf twist.

Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

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I swear, one of these days Brandon Sanderson will write something that I dislike—something that is boring or trite or that just plain doesn’t work—but that day is not this day. This day that son of a gun has written yet another clever, entertaining story for me to four or five star. And this time he takes on detective stories! With a fantasy twist, of course. In the near future, some sort of supernatural event has reshaped the world, and made it possible to recreate exact, life-size replicas of entire days. It’s left vague why this ‘technology’ was actually created, […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

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