Cannonball Read 18

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Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

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Sunbolt is one of those books that suck you in and you can’t put down. We meet Hitomi as she is on her way to a secret meeting that she hasn’t been invited to. A fortune teller stops her and begs to tell her fortune (which is of course delightfully vague and thrillingly ominous) telling her to run. Soon, sure enough the armed guards of the evil Blackflame are at her heals and she must run to escape them. Not just because she is foreign, […]

A Price More Than Apple Cakes

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You really need to jump on the Intisar Khanani bandwagon. Shortly after I acquired her debut novel, Thorn, for my Kindle, HarperTeen bought the book and it’s as yet unpublished companion novel, A Theft of Sunlight. Intisar Khanani is about to become a thing and her books are about to become more expensive. You can still get Sunbolt and Memories of Ash inexpensively, and you should do that ASAP. In the few books I’ve read by Intisar Khanani, she has impressed me with her complex heroines, […]

I am Well Acquainted With Fire

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If you like fantasy and strong female protagonists, you should be reading Intisar Khanani. She writes beautifully. She builds interesting and diverse worlds. Her protagonists are wonderful, believable girls. Her books are inexpensive and you should be buying them. It’s interesting to start a book knowing more about the character’s history than they do. Near the end of Sunbolt, Hitomi burned out her memory in a magical act of self defense. She recovers enough memory to know her enemy, but not her old friends. Hitomi […]

You can keep my future, it will probably do you more good than me

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A few days ago I read J’s review of Memories of Ash, the second book in a new, on-going series of YA fantasy novels. J wants Cannonballers to read it, so I picked up the first book, Sunbolt. After I finished Sunbolt, I saw there was a free short story, The Bone Knife, so I scooped that up too. Sunbolt is a very fast read. I enjoyed it. Khanani keeps the action focused on her protagonist Hitomi and mostly leaves the world building for the reader to glean […]

Run far, run fast, keep the wind in your hair

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Memories of Ash picks up about a year after the conclusion of Intisar Khanani’s Sunbolt. Hitomi, now using the name Hikaru, has been under the tutelage of Brigit Stormwind, learning to perform healing magic and attempting to regain her lost memories. This interlude comes to an end with the visit from representatives of the High Council of Mages. Stormwind has been called to the council to answer charges of treason. Hitomi must emerge from hiding to confront her enemy Arch Mage Blackflame in order to save her […]



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