Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

So, Apparently, This Lady is Relatively Attractive…

Covenant of Muirwood Trilogy by Jeff Wheeler

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The Banished of Muirwood, The Ciphers of Muirwood, The Void of Muirwood (The Covenant of Muirwood Trilogy) By Jeff Wheeler This is a great little fantasy series. Having read the Acknowledgements, the author did something kind of fun- he took a broad outline of actual historical events and turned them into a fantasy novel. It works, I loved the plot, it felt real and plausible and most of the people were very three dimensional. Finding out it was based on reality kind of helped show that feeling was correct. It moves at a good clip, I read all three books […]

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10/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

More Gorgeous Prose

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

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I have decided to take the plunge and read the whole Raven Cycle series since I haven’t done a good submersion into a series in a while. Stiefvater’s beautiful prose does not disappoint in volume 2, The Dream Thieves. I am absolutely in love with this woman’s craft. Her brilliant syntax and poetic descriptions are at times so perfect and poignant, it hurts. It literally makes me think about her book whenever I’m not reading it. I blew through this volume in about 2 days because I didn’t want to stop reading her gorgeous prose. I also love the constant push-pull she […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Is a Western fantasy set in a Middle Eastern environment an Eastern?

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

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Amani Al-Hiza is poor orphan, raised by uncaring relatives in a small desert town where most inhabitants work in the local mine. She knows that if she doesn’t collect enough money to get out soon, she’ll end up as third wife to her unpleasant uncle, a fate she would rather die than accept. One night, she disguises herself as a boy and enters a shooting competition at the local watering hole, trying to win enough money to finally leave. She’s an excellent shot, and sure that she will win, until she meets the mysterious Jin and things escalate out of […]

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10/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:88 |

Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

It by Stephen King

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Drumroll…………. It makes its second appearance in my Cannonball Read in as many years. (Here is my review from last year.) But dangit, it’s just absolutely outstanding all over again. Honestly, I might be at a loss for words now, and I think that’s because Stephen King took all of them. All the words. It is so long. But it reads so fast! I can’t put it down, and I don’t want to put it down! It’s just one of those books. So, the timing of this is obviously because the movie releases this weekend, and I’m one of those […]

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9/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

“Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.”

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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From Goodreads: The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around – and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever.  What happened in Weep two […]

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9/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:77 |

A very satisfying ending, for now. I hope there will be more books

Wildfire by Ilona Andrews

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Spoiler warning! This is the third book in a series, and the review will contain spoilers for the previous two books. If you haven’t read any of the books yet, start with Burn for Me. If you aren’t caught up with the series, maybe come back for this review later. Instead of being able to spend Christmas with her new boyfriend, Connor Rogan, one of the most powerful and magically gifted men in the United States, Nevada Baylor has to rush back to her family once they discover that her paternal grandmother, Victoria Tremaine, is coming for the family. Once back home, Nevada […]

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9/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:76 |

He’s Not A Hero, But He’s the Best Man for the Job

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

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I would totally read Terry Pratchett’s ink blotter or scribbled napkin, so my opinion on anything Pratchett is probably a little biased. However, “Going Postal” is my all-time favorite Discworld novel, and its one of his best. This is my third read of this book, and since I’m using it for a guest lecture on building an ‘invented’ world, I really paid attention to how Pratchett made the story. It’s just short of brilliant, and I wish I could have seen this man storyboard because it’s perfect. Moist is a good dude wrapped in a bad man’s clothes. He’ll swindle […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

Meh, At Least It’s Short!

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

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I read this both because my book club assigned it for the month of April and also because I am a Hugo voter and got a free copy of it in the voting packet.  I was familiar with Anders’ work, mostly essays and some short stories, and thought this book sounded really interesting from the description.  It was a combination of magic and science, takes place in the SF Bay Area, about modern life with fantastical elements.  Sign me up! But this book kind of dragged and also sped forward in ways that didn’t work for me.  I like the […]

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7/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |


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