Cannonball Read 18

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Are Your Plans Good Enough To Hold Up to Time Travel and Amnesia

An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2) by James Islington

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Time travel, mind control, amnesia, flashbacks, immortals, stalkers, secret identities, magic swords, and battles; there is a lot happening in this book.  It is not a stand-alone book and you will need to read the first in order to follow the second.  I have to admit, even with reading the first I was a little lost on this one and will probably have to go through it again before the third one is released.  To give you some background of the story there are people that […]

Curiouser & Curiouser

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

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Well this was an interesting first book in a planned trilogy (I am guessing). There’s enough there to maybe have me read book #2. The world building was interesting, but didn’t delve enough in the end. The character development of everyone in this book was not great. I absolutely hard sighed at a love triangle showing up which I am sure is going to get more play in the next book. I also think that the time jumps didn’t help matters and I think that […]

I was all about it until I wasn’t

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

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England has a bit of a problem.  Their magic is fading, and no one seems to know why. Zacharias, the new Sorcerer Royal, is determined to find out why, and hopefully fix the problem.  Poor Zacharias. He is young, and grieving for the death of his mentor, and suffering from a mysterious (to us, at least) malady. Oh, and he’s black. So really, there’s not much going for him. Prunella Gentleman is a young lady in a school for gentlewitches.  She’s not a student, though, […]

“I want a man who stays out of my way.”

Waistcoats & Weaponry (Finishing School, #3) by Gail Carriger

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All right, I liked this one quite a bit. I’m invested in the series now. But I’m still only giving this 3.5 stars, rounded up, because it shouldn’t take you two books to be emotionally invested. I should have been in like Flynn after book one. Anyway, I finished this book in a frenzy and immediately wanted the next one (which I’m not getting to until next month, sadface), so that’s a great sign. Sophronia and Co. are halfway through their second year at Madame Geraldine’s Finishing […]

If I didn’t already like this series, this book would have converted me.

Fate's Edge (The Edge, #3) by Ilona Andrews

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Mostly what I want to say about this book is that it was really fun. It’s definitely my favorite of the series so far. I liked the plot the best, I liked the characters the best, and my favorite magical brothers, Jack and George, play a significant role. I loved them in the first book, and I’m glad they’re being used well in the rest of the series. I read almost this whole thing on Superbowl Sunday, and in my opinion, that was a much […]

Fun story, bad editing

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

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3.5 stars. This book was a pretty slow to pick up pace, but by the end I was digging both the story and characters. Nahri, a con woman in 18th century Cairo, is used to scraping by and lying for survival. She tricks rich people into giving her money in exchange for palm readings and healings. It’s never meant to be taken seriously until she accidentally summons a djinn warrior. When questioned by the djinn, it comes out that she has some actual skill with […]



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