Cannonball Read 18

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Her Heart Was an Overfilled Inkwell

The Kraken King by Meljean Brook

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I loved The Kraken King so much. I have resisted reading Meljean Brook’s book because I knew from reading the books she has written as Milla Vane that I would love them. All I want to do now is read nothing but the Iron Seas series. Since I currently have 18 advance reader copies waiting for me to read and review, that won’t be happening. So I will attempt to be unlike myself and read them at a decorous pace over several months. (I’ll probably […]

Enemies to lovers in a dark, pre-historic world

A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane

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Official book description: A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the walled kingdoms of the south. That alliance is all that stands against the return of an ancient evil – until the barbarian king and queen are slain in an act of bloody betrayal.   Though forbidden by the alliance council to kill the corrupt king responsible for […]

Read one of Meljean Brook’s other paranormals instead

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2.5 stars Olivia just wants to go home to her family for Christmas, preferably before the snow hits, but her boss has made her go out of her way to deliver some important papers to his son, a man she’s been studiously trying to avoid for over a year, after they kissed and he declared it a big mistake. Turns out that dear old dad had ulterior motives, and while Erik Gulbrandr does his best to get Olivia far away from him (even though he […]

Kidnappings and torture and war machines and daring rescues

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Part Five: The Kraken King and the Iron Heart – 4.5 stars Part Six: The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls – 4 stars Part Seven: The Kraken King and the Empress’s Eyes – 4.5 stars Part Eight: The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure – 4 stars Parts 1-4 reviewed here. Zenobia and Ariq are over the initial awkward state getting to know one another and actually falling in love part of their relationship. That doesn’t mean that their communication runs smoothly and that there are no more cultural […]

Airships and mercenaries and bandits and adventure

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Part One: The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster – 4 stars Part Two: The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm – 4 stars Part Three: The Kraken King and the Fox’s Den – 4.5 stars Part Four: The Kraken King and the Inevitable Abduction – 4 stars Because The Kraken King is being published in eight weekly instalments, I’m going to blog the first four as one book, and the final four as another, mainly because I don’t want to wait until I’ve read all the parts to share my […]



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