Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Hooked From the Start

Where No Shadow Stays by Sara Hashem

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I’m not really a horror reader, but I loved Sara Hashem’s Scorched Throne duology so much that I decided I had to give this one a try. And I’m so glad I took the chance because it was great! I was hooked from the opening line: “No one has tried to kill me yet today.” So narrates main character Mina, an Egyptian American high school senior who recently returned from a visit to Egypt. Something dark came back with her, and whenever she is alone with someone, […]

Breaking the cycle of abusive power

The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem

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I was surprised how much I liked this duology, especially the first one in the series, given that it involved a genocide and two main characters that represented the oppressor and oppressed, a dynamic I usually stay far away from in historical fiction (and yet, between this and the Daevabad trilogy, it isn’t a dealbreaker in fantasy for me). I also appreciated that this series didn’t stretch into a trilogy needlessly and there was more than enough going on to justify a duology. Ten years […]

A Great Conclusion to the Duology

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem

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cbr17bingo – purple This was so good! I really liked The Jasad Heir, but I didn’t love it, and I recall thinking some of the writing was a bit awkward at times. But this one? I loved this one. It took some getting used to because it incorporates more POVs than the first book, and even that I ended up liking more than I expected, especially the chapters from Sefa’s perspective. The Jasad Crown picks up very soon after where The Jasad Heir left off. Arin is preparing for […]

A Journey of Survival and Self-Discovery With A Complex Character

The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem

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This is not a hero’s story. Author Sara Hashem says in a video that Sylvia is going to be a divisive character because she makes terrible choices, but I’m not sure I agree with that. She makes human choices. She makes selfish choices informed by her trauma. Her choices aren’t that of a hero but that of someone trying to survive. No, I didn’t always like her choices and how at times they convey a lack of empathy or connection to others, but I also […]

A new adult enemies to lovers fantasy romance that may hit harder for you than it did for me.

The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1) by Sara Hashem

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I’m going to chalk this one up to being not the right book for me (maybe just not the right time?) because I really can’t think of anything this book did wrong. It just didn’t get me in my feels. In fact, it did a lot of things right that these fantasy romance new adult type books often don’t. The enemies to lovers thing was very real. They were DEFINITELY enemies. Like, in just a slightly different universe, the male MC could have murdered her […]



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