Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Beauty and the Yeast Infection

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

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If this is what counts as a fairy love story these days, then consider me permanently checked out. A Court of Thorns and Roses is one of the most poorly written, boring, and utterly unbelievable ventures into fae romance I could imagine. Centered around a protagonist named Feyre — which is somehow both an absurd and fitting name for such a ridiculous character — the story begins with her starving in the woods and shooting a wolf with her bow and arrow. This apparently triggers […]

Better than Book 1

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas

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(Since this is a sequel, there will be spoilers for the end of Book 1 in here) My review of the first book was titled “Better Than Fourth Wing,” and this one was miles better than Book 1, so I guess maybe I actually liked this one? So Feyre has conquered Amarantha, rescued Tamlin and the rest of the Fae, and is now back in the Spring Court trying to reconcile all of this good news with the very, very bad things she had to […]

Better than Fourth Wing

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

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The story: I think this has been reviewed here a million times, but here goes: Feyre kills a wolf who’s actually a faerie in disguise, and another faerie prince type guy named Tamlin comes calling to collect his revenge. He takes her back to Faerie and then just kind of leaves her alone in his giant castle. Eventually they fall in love (I guess? I am skeptical), she learns more about what’s really happening in Faerie, and decides she has to try to save Tamlin […]

Angels and Demons and Shifters, OH MY!

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

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I know it’s cool to hate on Sarah J. Maas books, but I am a huge fan of her work. Are they high literature? No, but A Court of Thorns and Roses got me back into reading after too long of an absence. A Court of Silver Flames helped get me out of bed after 6 pets died in 6 months and I was in a depressive fugue. She does character development like nobody else, and her books are unputdownable. Book 1: House of Earth […]

“The gods know what would happen if all us females were unsupervised. Absolute anarchy. Cities would crumble.”

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas

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CBR16 Bingo: Part One – The first 300 pages. Part Two – The second 300 pages And Also… Part Three – The last 300-odd pages. It was a long book. Bryce is lost in another world, separated from Hunt and her friends and utterly shellshocked from the horrific knowledge she has gained about the Asteri. To keep everyone and everything she loves safe, she will have to figure out how to destroy – and that’s if she can manage to find her way home first. […]

My love/hate relationship with this author continues.

House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3) by Sarah J. Maas

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SJM is just bad at endings, is what I’ve decided. I feel the same way about this as I did about Kingdom of Ash. And even though I think it’s the best of her three endings, I also had similar issues with A Court of Wings and Ruin. It’s a pattern, is what I’m saying. I don’t regret reading this book; the first half in particular was a major improvement over the meandering, uninteresting second book. And then she started wrapping things up. Sigh. I’m finding it […]



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