Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Bingo 5: Chaos and lots of things not as they might seem

All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Bingo 5: Sheep OK so All Hail Chaos has as heavy dose of innocence (being lost) and people following (at various levels of blindness either what they want, or what someone else wants). So it fits. Also full disclosure, this was travel reading I finished and then gave to my mom, so if I misspell a name or something, that’s why. The story continues from the first volume with Rae trying to avoid Rahela’s canonical fate along with the fates of several other characters. She […]

love when you realize there’s more in a universe that you loved

"Wings In the Morning" by Sarah Rees Brennan

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This is really just a four star review for the one story in here about Luke Sunborn, he of the lovable himbo with depth persuasion in the delightful In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. I re-read In Other Lands solely to read this story, because I feared I would not recall enough of the tale to fully appreciate it. Perhaps that would be true, but I can also say that this story is written with enough context and callback that you can enjoy it either way! So In Other […]

a now very-long review consisting of an original and retrospective take

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Re-read July 2026 CBR Bingo: Clown, because 1) I am missing clown to completely a bingo (also yay! this completes one bingo!) and 2) I do think Clownish describes a lot of Elliot through this book, in a way that probably isn’t fair to him because he really is a misfit, which is also in the category. A very long dated re-read, entirely from the recommendation of my friend. I was idly looking through my friend Lydia’s bookshelf when visiting her this summer and saw […]

It’s all fun and games until the gods show up

All Hail Chaos: Time of Iron Book 2 by Sarah Rees Brennan

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All Hail Chaos is the sequel to Long Live Evil, which I reviewed favorably last year. At the time, I thought this sequel would end the story, but it looks like we are in for a Time of Iron Book 3, and there is a doozy of a cliffhanger at the end of book 2. My overall impression of All Hail Chaos is that it was … fine. Honestly, I felt like the pacing was kind of slow, and some of the more interesting character […]

“People say, I’ll give anything. The universe listens. But the universe doesn’t listen when you say, Wait, not that.”

Long Live Evil: Time of Iron Book One by Sarah Rees Brennan

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The difference between a villain and a hero is that a villain gets found out as a human being. Rae is 23 and dying of leukemia, with nothing to keep her company in the hospital but her 20 year old sister Alice and their favorite series: Time of Iron.  It may have started out as just Alice’s, but once Rae heard of the Once and Forever Emperor, Master of the Dread Ravine, Commander of the Living and the Dead; he’s the villain, he’s broody, he […]

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Re-Writes Your Story?

Long Live Evil: Time of Iron Book One by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Cbr17bingo Border — the main character literally crosses a border between reality and fiction, and straddles the border between good and evil; the kingdom in the story is bordered by the Dread Ravine, which is full of the undead. This book is one of the most bonkers, crazy, fun stories I’ve read in a long time, and I thank Dome’loki for the review that turned me on to it. I think we’re all familiar with time travel stories, where a character is sent back in […]



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