Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

More Harry Magic

White Night by Jim Butcher

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I read the first in Jim Butcher’s new series and kinda liked it, so I figured I’d check out his other stuff. I read the first Dresden novel, and though it was only ok. Then I saw that multiple people were saying that the Dresden series only gets good after about book 4. My local library does not have the entire series thus far, and the branch near me does not have all of the book in the order I might want them (chronologically). So I’ve been reading them a bit out of order. This seems to work out ok, […]

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6/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

We are not all heroes

Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen by Garth Nix

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I was inspired to write this review by this tweet. YA is an interesting genre. Nix’s previous books (which I adore) have given us a very typical YA heroines. They are morally clear, they have self doubt which they work through, and they are generally good. In Clariel – which a lot of Nix fans didn’t like – we don’t get that. Clariel is a prequel to Sabriel – Nix’s first “Old Kingdom” book.  It’s set a couple of hundred years in the past. Clariel is related to the Abhorsens and the King. She is a child of privilege. Her […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

You Mean All This Time, We Could’ve Been Friends?

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

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The Prestige tells the story of a lifelong feud between two magicians in turn-of-the-century England. You’ve probably seen or at least heard of the movie, which starred Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman (and David Bowie as Nicola Tesla! Whee!). The Prestige is the story of Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier, two magicians who rise to fame somewhat simultaneously, and whose lives are marred by a deadly feud that started when Borden exposed Angier as a fraud at a seance. That is. . . one weird sentence. Things get even weirder, though, when the two compete over who has the better […]

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5/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

brb, reading this again

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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Laini. LAINI. What are you doing to me? I want to cry, right now, writing this review, thinking about Strange the Dreamer. It’s too much. It’s too beautiful, too peculiar, too visceral, too magical. What is in your imagination? How do you do this? Fantasy is such a stalwart genre for me because of how it truly takes me out of the every day and into a new place, sometimes a completely different place. Good fantasy has that quality of evoking wonder and provoking the wishful thinking that you can actually go there and experience. Laini Taylor’s fantasy is so […]

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5/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

“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 |

For a legendary assassin, she spends a whole lot of time NOT killing people

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

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3.5 stars I put off reading this for the longest time, mainly because I figured I’d have to go back and read the first one, Throne of Glass, again to remember what happened, what with having read that way back in early 2013. But then the lovely Narfna tipped me off about this website, which allowed me to quickly recap all the stuff I only vaguely remembered, and I no longer had an excuse not to read it and it fit into my Monthly Keyword Challenge for April. Oh yeah, this is book 2 in a series. It doesn’t really […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Not at All Magically Realistic

Girl in the Glass by Zoe Brooks

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Y’all. Y’all. Maybe I wasn’t the target audience for this book but it was so bad.

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5/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time.

Moon Over Soho (PC Peter Grant Book 2) by Ben Aaronovitch

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Wait, hang on a second. [Looks up how many PC Peter Grant novels there are so far.] [Discovers Ben Aaronovitch wrote a few serials for “Doctor Who,” in the late Eighties. Light bulb.] [Discovers that although the book jackets say “PC Peter Grant Series,” whoever edited Wikipedia last prefers to refer to them as the “Rivers of London Series.” Huh, makes sense. Also: spoilerish.] [Discovers there are 6 “Rivers of London” novels so far, and what’s this, now? 9 spin-off graphic novels? And 4 companion short stories? Who is this fucker, Neil Gaiman?!] Goddamnit, you guys. I do want to […]

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4/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

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