Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I would really like to know”, he said with genuine curiosity. “The next time I kill someone, I’d like to do it in a way that doesn’t freak you out.”

Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars This book originally came out back in 2014, but was re-released earlier this year, after the two planned sequels took longer to produce than planned. The second book in the trilogy will now be out at the end of May, while the third and final book comes out in July. I’m giddy with anticipation and have already pre-ordered the sequels. My first review of the book can be found here. Spoiler warning! This review will mainly deal with my thoughts of re-reading it, and where I hope the authors will take the series in upcoming books. So if you […]

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5/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:49 |

Everything You Want in an Urban Romance

One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

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  I maybe screeched a bit while reading this the other day. It was so ridiculously good I could not keep a hold of myself. You get action, interesting new characters, new information about how the Innkeeepers mete out justice, and oh you get a really nice love scene (finally some of you are saying!) which was great. This whole thing was way too short for me. I needed more and felt really upset when we got the final page. The only thing I wish we had gotten more of was colored photos inserted in this one. I was disappointed […]

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1/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

A hunter on suicide mission falls in love with an angel of death

Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews

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Steel’s Edge is the final entry in the Edge series. Once again, two unlikely people are thrust together by violence and fate. Charlotte de Ney is a healer who devoted her life to others in the Weird. Her adoptive mother, Lady Augustine, is a powerful noble and mentor, which makes Charlotte an honorary noble and able to marry well. Sadly, Charlotte is unlucky in love and learns her husband is a complete asshole who married her only to produce an heir to receive his inheritance. Once he learns she is barren, he wants a very fast divorce. Charlotte is shocked and destroyed by […]

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12/31/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:7 |

Thieves in Love

Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews

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Fate’s Edge is the third book of The Edge series by Ilona Andrews. Kaldar Mar, cousin to Cerise from the previous book, is recruited by Lady Virai to retrieve a magical artifact stolen impossibly stolen from a literal Fort Knox type pyramid. If not retrieved, The Hand (bad guys) would have a devastating tool to wreak havoc in the Weird, Broken and Edge. Kaldar is a con man who loves a dangerous and challenging mission. That is his power – if you bet him to do something, it gives him the slightest magical luck to succeed. These days he’s working for […]

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12/31/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:6 |

“Chicks dig a man of mystery. And werewolves. Chicks really dig werewolves”

One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is the third book in The Innkeeper Chronicles and as such, this review may contain spoilers for previous books in the series. It’s also a series that is best read in order, so if you are unfamiliar with the books, go start at the beginning, with Clean Sweep. While Dina Demille may seem like a fairly ordinary young human woman, she is in fact an Innkeeper, and within the bounds of her inn, she is almost unbelievably powerful. Her broom is a deadly weapon. She can rearrange the rooms and gardens to suit any guest, […]

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12/30/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:132 |

Love in a magical swamp

Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews

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I kicked off the year with Bayou Moon from Ilona Andrews’ The Edge series. This novel follows William, an ex-military changeling werewolf loner. He was a supporting character in the first book, On the Edge. William retired to The Edge, a liminal zone between the “Broken” (our world devoid of magic) and the “Weird” (a mirror earth dimension full of magic). In this reality, werewolves are either killed at birth or forced into the military. His forest cabin solitude is interrupted when two agents from The Mirror, his homeland’s version of the CIA, re-enlist him for a dangerous mission. They want […]

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12/29/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:1 |

This book made me so angry that I have to remind myself what I liked about it so I don’t rate it lower then I already have.

Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews

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Seriously, this book really frustrated me and it’s hard not to focus on those frustrations to the detriment of the novel. It is however, a perfect example of why I will never claim Ilona Andrews as a favorite author. I often find that their books have a subtle current of misogyny/gender issues which is easily overlooked because in general I like everything that surrounds that current and it’s a small current. That current ebbs and flows depending on the novel and oh boy did high tide hit with this book. There were multiple times my jaw just dropped or I […]

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11/2/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:98 |

My Dad is a Paranoid Megalomanic Wizard Who Refuses to Respect my Boundaries.

Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews

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Short non-spoilery review – this is a solid entry in an excellent series. If you aren’t reading the Kate Daniels series, you should start. On to the longer and inevitably spoilery review (there is no way to talk about book 9 in a series without getting spoilery). Planning a wedding was never going to be Kate’s favorite thing to do, but tensions rising with her father and oracles calling with dark prophecies push wedding planning even farther down the list of priorities. Worse, Kate’s claiming of Atlanta is starting to have some unintended consequences. The magic that Kate gained access […]

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9/25/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:40 |

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