Cannonball Read 18

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“If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

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Never have truer words been spoken! This collection of short stories crept around my periphery for some time, and I am both overjoyed to have finally given in to it and disappointed in myself for not biting earlier. I came across it originally on a list of fairy-tale retellings on Autostraddle, and when it popped up again in the employee recommendations section of one of my favorite booksellers (Crow Bookshop in Burlington, what’s up!) I knew that it was meant to be. Still, it sat […]

I Am Going to Save the World and No One Knows it’s Ending

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Rating: 4.0/5 Summary: Rachelle is a bloodbound and she must serve the king or be hunted. Being a bloodbound means she is faster and stronger than humans, but not quite as strong as a forestborn. Rachelle was apprenticed to her aunt as a woodwife, people who weave charms of protection against the Great Forest. Upon becoming a bloodbound, Rachelle is now the very thing she had been fighting. When the King assigns her to guard his son Armand, Rachelle is loath to do so, until […]

The girl in the red cloak is a princess, and the wolf is a landless earl in a mask. Grandma’s sort of sinister, though.

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This is the third book in a series, which began with Princess of the Midnight Ball. While you don’t really need to have read the second book in the series, Princess of Glass to fully appreciate the book, you should probably have read the first one (or at least be more than passingly familiar with the fairytale of The Twelve Dancing Princesses) to get the full experience of this book, as there are a lot of references to the events of the first book. There will also be mild spoilers […]

A girl in a red hoodie and a tall, dark stranger go on a quest to find grandma

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This is the second book in the Lunar Chronicles, and won’t really work so well if you haven’t read the first one. Start with Cinder, then come back and read this review when you’ve caught up. Really, you don’t want to be reading this review – it’s going to contain spoilers about the first book. Continue reading if you don’t mind, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Scarlet Benoit needs to find her grandmother, who disappeared without a trace a few weeks ago. Her ID chip […]



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