Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


‘The Idea Is, Even if I Do Explode, I’m Only Going to Be a Risk to Sheep’

Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch

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Been a while! I can’t believe that we are at now ten books into the Rivers of London series. This is another one of those urban fantasy-slash-detective series that I’ve been enjoying over the years. And like some of the others, Rivers of London has 1) experienced a bit of a gap between novels (three years) and 2) reached a bit of a pivotal point in the over-reaching narrative.  Let’s get the biggest thing out of the way first: Stone and Sky is a Rivers […]

What Do We Call This Genre? Backwoods Fantasy?

The Dragon Kings of Oklahoma by Ferrett Steinmetz

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I have to thank RouletteGirl and their review for putting The Dragon Kings of Oklahoma on my radar! The review alone really sold me on it, but I also have to give some credit to the cover –  which is amazing and tells you exactly what you are in for.* What happens when dragons turn up in small town Oklahoma? Tyler “Daisy” Collins isn’t your typical fantasy protagonist. In his own words, he’s “a six-two shithouse of aging muscle, a fine mullet planted beneath an […]

Promising Series Start with Some of the Usual First Book Challenges

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For Two Heads Are Better Than One, emmalita and Jen K chose to read and review Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning, the first in The Sixth World series.  In order to make this simpler, we are pulling the Amazon description for the plot summary, and then going into our thoughts below that!



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