Cannonball Read 18

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A Dark Force Rising

Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon

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Even though I enjoy everything I have read by Samantha Shannon and pre-ordered this as soon as I heard about it, I then waited till this past week to read it. I think with this universe in particular, even though Shannon very much made these novels independent enough that they don’t require reading the others to get the story, I still worry about trying to remember and fit them in the larger context before I start reading. I really am overthinking it and creating my […]

How to save the community center

How to age disgracefully by Clare Pooley

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This was a fun read – it feels very much in the same tradition as novels like Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murder or The Thursday Murder Club. To be clear, this one doesn’t have a murder (just an unfortunately timed death when a ceiling partially collapses) but it has a similar mix of zany characters that come together and enrich each other’s lives. I know I have read other non-murder examples of this kind of story but my brain isn’t working enough to think […]

Back when there were still witches

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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While I really enjoyed a few of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novels, I was hesitant about this one. While her release before this one, The Seventh Veil of Salome, should have been right up my alley, I ended up giving up on it fairly early. It also had a bit of a dual/multi timeline and narrator thing going on and I just ended up not quite being as interested in some of them to keep reading. When I saw this one also involved multiple time lines, I […]

I should read more Susanna Kearsley

The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley

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StoryGraph Easy Reading Challenge 2025: All Alone – Read a stand-alone book Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for this ARC. My opinions are my own. It is 1613 and Prince Henry, James I’s eldest son and heir has tragically died. Rumours whisper that it might not have been by natural causes. Queen Anna is distraught, and King James is determined to punish the guilty. Andrew Logan is one of the king’s messengers and he’s tasked with going to Scotland to apprehend Sir David Moray, […]

Fantastic second book!

The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

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[review contains references and spoilers for Bone Shard Daughter, book one of The Drowning Empire trilogy] After defeating her father, Lin hoped taking over as emperor would be a smooth transition, but no one knows who she is and don’t trust the Sukai family after the terrors of tithing festivals and constructs. But with Jovis, who has become a folk hero, at her side she decides to travel across the empire to announce the ending of tithings, return everyone’s bone shards, and try to get […]



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