Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Write more, and quickly!

Foxglove Summer & The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

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Damn. It’s only April and I’ve already fallen behind in my reviews, so this one’s a two-fer as I try and catch up. I read these back-to-back during some sleepless nights in Rome (which was actually a plus as far as I was concerned – I got to do tons of sightseeing while also racking up some serious reading time), safely ignorant of the fact that there aren’t any more in the series yet until I got to the end of The Hanging Tree and had a conniption on heading to the kindle store for the next. I’m gonna miss […]

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4/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

“Philosophically speaking, truth is a slippery concept and one should always be alive to nuance.”

The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London/Peter Grant #6) by Ben Aaronovitch

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2/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

Harry, stop objectifying the Queen of Air and Darkness. She will END YOU.

Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher

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This re-read has been a success so far. Weird, but good weird. It was weird revisiting the first three books, which I originally didn’t like enough to continue the series, on audio for the first time. I knew that James Marsters was a huge part of the reason I ended up liking this series so much, but I don’t think I realized just how much until starting this re-read. I liked the first three books more on re-read in large part because I’m invested in this world and these characters now, but it’s also just super fun to listen to […]

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11/21/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:142 |

Surprisingly funny

Soulless by Gail Carriger

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Werewolves and vampires generally don’t do much for me, so I don’t pick up paranormal romances on a whim. However, my book club chose Soulless (2014) by Gail Carriger, and they said it was fun. It also happens to be a steampunk comedy of manners, so I found that there was a lot more to it than Twilight and the Charlaine Harris books I’ve read. I had a good time reading this book. The tone is fun, the writing is fun, and I loved all the names of the characters. There were a number of lines that had me smiling or laughing, and […]

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10/20/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:48 |

Fun paranormal mysteries

Midnight Riot and Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

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My one issue with the books are the female characters.  Every one of them is presented in the way they relate to Peter sexually.  There are women he is a attracted to for different reasons.  There are women he is not attracted to for different reasons.  But mostly the first.  Why do I need this information?  The author tries to give some of it relevance to the story, but I just didn’t feel like he succeeded.  In the first book the closest Peter comes to a relationship is with a girl of questionably legal age.  Creepy.  On the other hand, […]

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9/30/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:34 |

The Hannibal of books

The Devourers by Indra Das

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The Devourers is one of those books where I liked it so much that I don’t even know what to say about it. I read it in one sitting, ensconced in a fever dream, and because it was so intense and then over so quickly I had such a hangover afterward, wanting more. It’s like the Hannibal of books: fellow fans of the (too-short) TV show will understand when I say that it has that same quality of being breathtaking and captivating, literally beautiful, but also deeply, inherently disgusting. I’m going to just be lazy here and grab the Goodreads […]

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9/26/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:70 |

“The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.”

Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff

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Paper Valentine started off promisingly, an intriguing cross-genre YA story that explores loss and the fine line between challenging and enabling your personal demons. Hannah Wagnor is an almost uncomfortably silent protagonist, whose mind is always going a thousand miles a minute but who lets precious little of those thoughts slip through her lips. Part of that is self preservation — she’s (actually) haunted by the ghost of her recently deceased best friend, Lillian, and she isn’t in a hurry to make that fact known — and part of it is the acute teenage insecurity about where she fits in […]

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9/7/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:64 |

A good, if a bit predictable, series ender.

End of Watch (Bill Hodges, #3) by Stephen King

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All in all, this was a good series. This book, like the first two, was compulsively readable (although the second one is by far my favorite of the three). But taken as a whole series, they definitely work together to reinforce each other. The ending of this one had threads that reach all the way back to the first chapter of Mr. Mercedes. End of Watch brings us back to Brady Hartsfield, who has been hospitalized as a “gork” for going on six years now, unable even to be tried, no matter that Hodges thinks he’s faking. Holly and Hodges […]

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8/22/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:115 |

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