Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

CBR15 Bingo: Sex (Bingo AND Cannonball)

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

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CBR15 Bingo: Sex (the protagonist is a god-touched masochist courtesan spy) Kushiel’s Dart is the first novel in the Kushiel’s Legacy series, which came to number six books in total. Jacqueline Carey also wrote an additional trilogy in her Terre D’Ange universe, and over the course of all of her books, pretty much explored every continent in her alternate-history fantasy world. This first book is set in an alternate historical version of Europe, set at about Renaissance times, or somewhat earlier, although the descriptions of […]

Posts review and runs away

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Sometimes, the timing just isn’t right for a particular book. Having chosen to start reading Kushiel’s Dart at an incredibly stressful time where work completely took over my life, it took me forever to get through this as I’d constantly find myself having zoned out thinking about a work problem and then struggling to find the thread again. I’m not sure whether that would have happened had I not been so stressed, but as it was Kushiel’s Dart didn’t hook me in the way that […]

Kushiel’s Dart May Strike True, But It Takes a Damn Long Time to Get There

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I had some weird, odd deja vu  going on reading this one.  It tripped a bunch of nostalgia centers in my brain, but since I’m positive I’ve never read it before, I’m going to chalk it up to this being a book I would have LOVED in high school.  (Not that that’s a slight on the book or anything, but it totally would have fit right into my geometry book once I finished reading about the vampire Lestat during class instead of memorizing the Pythagorean […]

And Just Like the Prodigal Son I’ve Returned

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Yes, that is a House Of Pain lyric in the title but I have been out of the Cannonball Read for over a year, and if it makes sense to reference House of Pain in any review, it might be Kushiel’s Dart with its protagonist. Just when I had decided that a full back tattoo really wouldn’t make sense for me given my fashion choices and my preference to be able to cover up tattoos, I read Kushiel’s Dart, and am now back to thinking, […]

Not bad for a new foray into epic fantasy

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This book is pretty far outside of my comfort zone because I’ve been trying to experience new genres this year, but I think Kushiel’s Dart may have been the farthest I’ll delve into high fantasy. I did enjoy large parts of it, but I probably won’t be reading the sequels. Committing my time to this 901 page brick filled my epic fantasy quota for a few years. Kushiel’s Dart takes place in the land of Terre d’Ange, where all the descendents of angels live (making […]

Are you happy, Malin? I finally read this! (Also, thank you for my book.)

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This book was soooooo not what I was expecting it to be. For some reason, I had it in my head that this was some sort of paranormal romance? And that it was sort of trashy? I have no idea where I got those ideas from, because they couldn’t be further from the truth. This book is epic fantasy, well-written, has intricate plotting, seriously intense worldbuilding . . . and it’s not your mom and pop’s epic fantasy, either. It’s sexy. Like, SEXY sexy. Sex […]



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