Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“Committing it to ink makes it truer.”

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

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This was a warm blanket of a macabre fantasy Romance about life, death, and making yourself actually live your life that I devoured in a day and have spent nearly a week searching my mind for how to review. There are a couple things that have held up the writing, one that it’s a weird book that is both very straightforward in its description but the minute you scratch at its surface it gets quite difficult to nail down, and second that this is a […]

“I’m tired of being the villain in the story. I never meant to be, and I don’t want to do it any more.”

Jackdaw by K.J. Charles

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My favorite of the Magpie books. I was surprised by this! The premise turned me off a little, which is why it took me so long to pick up. I’m not really a fan of “redeeming the bad guy” stories, but of course Charles pulls it off. And, as it turns out, Jonah wasn’t really a bad guy for what he did in the original trilogy. He was being coerced, very strongly. Our narrator isn’t Jonah Pastern, though, it’s ex-policeman Ben Spenser, who was left […]

“You must be patient with me, dear Cae, as I learn to inhabit myself.” #CBRBINGO – Bodies

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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When I first finished this in July and gave it five stars, I predicted that most people wouldn’t love it as much as I did, and I was right. It also unfortunately came out at the same time as Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron, which is pretty similar in story and theme (I haven’t read it yet, though I do have it out from the library), and most people have preferred it to A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. I think this is […]

“I am but a verse inspired by your chorus, and I will follow you until the end, when the isle takes my bones and my name is nothing more than a remembrance on a headstone, next to yours.”

A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1) by Rebecca Ross

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A River Enchanted is a slower-paced, highly atmospheric, character-based fantasy set on a magical island inspired by Scottish folklore. I found it a very satisfying, almost cozy read, but if you are looking for something with more action and plot, this is not the book for you. The book follows four main characters: Jack, a bard who has come home to the island for the first time in over ten years; Adaira, the daughter of the clan leader; Sidra, a healer; and her husband and […]

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House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

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Usually no matter what feelings I am having for the books of one Sarah J. Maas—positive, negative, or meh—I at least find her books to be entertaining and I can’t usually put them down. Except for two books now: Kingdom of Ash, and now this one. I’m pretty sure I know why I wasn’t satisfied by this reading experience, and was quite frequently annoyed by it, but I’m not sure WHY it’s that way. In my opinion here two strongest books are A Court of […]

This is basically non-stop action.

Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7) by Ilona Andrews

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To be honest, I thought the confrontation that happens in this book wouldn’t happen until the last—or maybe the penultimate—book in the series. So I was refreshingly surprised! For most of this book I had no idea where it was going, and then it went there! And then after that it shook some things up that I didn’t think would ever have the possibility to get shaken up, but I’m glad they did. All of that sounds very vague, but this is a review of […]



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