Cannonball Read 18

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“Welcome to the future! The future stinks.” (Your Pal Fred)

Your Pal Fred Volume One by Michael Rex

Doom’s Day Camp V02 The Story Eater by Joshua Hauke

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I had an odd reading arc at the end of 2023. I  found some not overly happy books. One was a book about Palestine and Gaza, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, and  two books about the apocalypse. Not to mention the teen novel about a “camp” to train teenage assassins. However, there was humor in the two apocalypse books. In Your Pal Fred Volume One, Michael Rex made a character that is from the past. He wakes up in the seriously dystopian world of […]

Hi I’m your new bunk mate and my body count is 1

Teen Killers Club (volume one) by Lily Sparks

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Both predictable and a few surprises, Teen Killers Club (volume one) has a few bumps and bruises and some killings. Okay, a lot of killing. The overall of this novel I enjoyed, however, there were several parts I did not. The biggest two were Signal (our innocent member of this summer camp from heck) is a major Damsel in Distress and she thinks she can change people just by loving them. Even murderers who really like their “hobby.”  There are several heavy-handed plot points, some […]

Magical foodie middle grade~

Just a Pinch of Magic by Alechia Dow

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Gosh. This was such a delightful book, full of yummy food, new friendships, and so much magic! I keep wanting to read Alechia Dow’s books because the themes are always exactly my jam, but I struggle with scifi, so when I saw she had a contemporary fantasy middle grade coming out, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it! Wini is from a family of Food Enchanters, but the small town she lives in all seems to hate her because her mother cast a […]

Coffee, romance, and visions

Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis

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I was not “jumping up and down” over the graphic novel Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew, but it was interesting enough and I needed to keep moving through it. However, I either missed a panel or two, or some plot parts here and there, but the flow was not totally even, as there were a few bumps in continuity for me. However, there was the fun, colorful art (the bull character has really nice hair, the centaur is a hoot when they have something […]

Two books for the price of one review

Dragons of Ember City V01 Happy Spark Day!  by Shane Richardson

Dragons of Ember City V02 The Midnight Roar! by Shane Richardson

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While browsing through some online reader copies I came across the second in the Dragons of Ember City book. I knew that most young series (this is for first to lower third grade) would probably need all books read in order to understand most things. Therefore, I asked my local library to locate a copy of Dragons of Ember City V01 Happy Spark Day!  O-M-G! This book has so much sugar it makes the sugar jar seem healthy! Okay, maybe not that much, but there […]

Another Cozy Fantasy

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

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I’ve been very much in the mood lately (absolutely always) for stories that feel like a mental warm hug. This being the prequel to Baldree’s lovely Legends & Lattes, we encounter our old friend Viv at the beginning of her mercenary journey. It is not going very well. Viv is very badly injured while being reckless in pursuit of a famous necromancer. The mercenary company she belongs to drop her off in a sleepy seaside town to rest and recuperate before hopefully coming back for […]



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