Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Political Thrills in a Cataclysmic World

City of Stairs (The Divine Cities Book 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

City of Blades (The Divine Cities Book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett

City of Miracles (The Divine Cities Book 3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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In my review of Red Rising, I asked about what it is that makes you decide whether or not to embark on a new series. Once again, I would like to build off this to ask a slightly different question – what makes you decide to back to a series that you left by the wayside? I hadn’t meant to abandon reading Robert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities Trilogy. But unfortunately, life got in the way. I got introduced to the series via the Hugo Awards […]

Weirdness in Wink

American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett

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American Elsewhere only popped onto my radar thanks to a Cannonball review, so thank you for putting a new (to me) writer on my horizon. A slow burn, it put me very much in mind of HP Lovecraft (minus the racism) living in a Stephen King town. I happen to love that kind of setting, so American Elsewhere turned out to be my kind of catnip. Mona Bright has been having a difficult few years. An ex-cop, currently unemployed and drifting following the death of […]

Episode 1-11: Time After Damned Time

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/03/19/episode-1-11-time-after-damned-time/ Wherein I Review: 35. Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett 36. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (Stainless Steel Rat #8) by Harry Harrison 37. Blood and Lemonade by Joe R. Lansdale 38. Just One Damned Thing After Another (St. Mary’s Chronicles #1) by Jodi Taylor Hap and Leonard do a very special clip show, still following the exploits of the inexplicable rat, I ponder what it’d be like if Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan went serial killer, and I finally find time travel […]

Pan-dimensional Pandemonium

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Thanks to the newly revived Powell’s Daily Dose, a huge grower of my “to-read” list, this novel came to my attention and I’m glad I took the time to “Interlibrary Loan” it (since I couldn’t find it at either of my local libraries).  Don’t let its 662 pages intimidate you.  American Elsewhere is a fun combination of noir, horror, and science fiction with a bit of the Truman Show thrown in for good measure (only there are no TV cameras).  Robert Jackson Bennett not only […]

Never, ever, never could this fight be worth what it asks of us.

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Before I get started, City of Blades is the second book in Robert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities trilogy. I am a terrible judge of whether you will need the earlier book to understand this one, and I apologize for that. I don’t think I need to spoil anything about the first to talk about the second, but everyone has their own tolerance level. Non-spoilery, but necessary background about the world of the Divine Cities. One hundred years ago, the gods were real. The Continent was […]



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