Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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It’s been four months since the night of gore, chaos, and the failed demonic summoning…but wait! There is more!

The Night Eaters V02 Her Little Reapers. by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

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Ages ago I read The Night Eaters #1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. The horror books of horror graphic novels. I mean, EEEEWWW OMG what was I thinking? Blood, gore, houses eating people…. Yet, Yup. I (mostly) liked it. Enough to say: I guess I’ll try volume two, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers. But I didn’t get to it for several years actually. So many in fact, I forgot what the ham-hocks was going on. Which is partly okay […]

The monster, the thief, and the vampire lover

Monstress Volume One: Awakening by Marjorie Liu

Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron

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I’m wrapping up the CBR15 Passport Challenge with three books from my bookshelf. I’ve had some of these for YEARS, so it was past time. I’ve enjoyed a few of Marjorie Liu’s short stories in paranormal romance anthologies like My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. When I learned she penned a graphic novel featuring magic and monsters, I was all in! I won an Amazon gift card from Mocha Girls Read and picked this up. And then it sat on my endless TBR pile until I […]

Bloody, beautiful Monstress

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I adored the first volume of Marjorie Liu’s Monstress. Sana Takeda’s art is one of the most stunning that I’ve come across in a comic. At the same time, it’s also unbelievably violent and brutal. I find this pairing somewhat evocative of the Hannibal TV series, which I also loved. (I don’t know what this says about me – that I am ok with gore, provided it’s beautifully presented?) Monstress is set an alternative, matriarchal, steampunk Asia, which is inhabited by humans, anthropomorphic animal gods […]

Gets me thinking

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This graphic novel does a good job of dealing with a fundamental question I always have in nearly every fantasy novel, movie, cartoon, video game, or anything else. It deals with it, but doesn’t fix it, but still it’s something. It’s a common issue with the genre for me and something I am not sure I will ever figure out so long as I persist in reading (etc) fantasy. That fundamental issue is: how does the world function? What I often understand about fantasy worlds […]

The Art is Better Than the Story

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I think a few Cannonballers reviewed the Monstress series last year, and when I saw volume one at the local comic book store, the art was so beautiful I decided to make the purchase. The art is truly stunning, a combination of anime and Art Deco (the blurb on the back says Art Deco, but I think it looks a bit Nouveau; maybe elements of both). The story itself is complicated and involves a variety of races of creatures that have a complex history together. […]



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