Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Second Time Around

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (2011) – It’s terrible getting halfway through a 750-page book and realizing you’ve read it before.  The good news is that the story is so good that I didn’t care.  I like a good spaceship crew story and this one combines space opera with a good mystery and a love story. The story is told by the two strong male protagonists, Miller, an alcoholic policeman on Ceres, and Holden, an executive officer aboard an ice mover.  When Holden’s ship is shot out from under him, he and his four remaining crew members escape in […]

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7/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

“Kate Daniels in Space”

Fortune's Pawn, Honor's Knight, Heaven's Queen (The Paradox Trilogy) by Rachel Bach

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Hoo-RAH! The Paradox series is so, so fun and so good. It’s basically Kate Daniels In Space, and as a huge Ilona Andrews/Kate Daniels fan and sci-fi/space opera fan, these books were like catnip. They center around a merc-for-hire named Devi Morris, who is the most competent, take no shit, battle trained soldier around. She’s a native Paradoxian, which makes her human but distinct from other humans called Terrans who are more closely connected in lineage to the original Earth. Paradoxians and those in Paradoxian colonies have an interesting feudal government, a seeming regression from the governments that would theoretically […]

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6/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:52 |

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE

Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3) by Chuck Wendig

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“When they say to one another, ‘May the Force be with you,’ it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance.”   I literally checked this book out of the library four times before I finally finished it (and kept it until forced to return it […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

Am I the only species in creation that doesn’t thrive on conflict?

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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I’m still not quite sure if I enjoyed this book or not. It’s fine, but for the large majority of the book I just thought it was OK. I feel almost guilty for saying that, because the book is just so nice, but that’s kind of all that it is. Ironically, I’ve been saying that I want light and fluffy fiction, nothing too deep or heavy, and yet when presented with one of the lightest and fluffiest books I’ve come across in a long while I’m left picking through the cotton candy and complaining about the lack of substance. In […]

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5/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

At least I got more Lying Cat in this one

Saga, vol 7 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

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This is volume 7 of an ongoing series. It’s not the place to start. There is no question that any person of good taste should be reading Saga, but you should start at the beginning with volume 1. I suppose that because the last volume made me very happy, this one was going to make me sad. Damn you, Vaughn and Staples and the emotional roller coaster you send me on. Temporarily stranded on Phang, a tiny comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling it out over (like they battle for everything else), Elena, Marko and their little family […]

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5/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

Scalzi’s new space opera: Please, sir, I want some more?

The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) by John Scalzi

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It’s been almost two years since The End of All Things was published, and I’ve been jonesing for some new Scalzi. Unfortunately, all The Collapsing Empire has really done is make me want more. It’s like how when you bake a fresh batch of cookies and you eat one hot from the oven, how that one cookie does nothing to curb your craving for cookies. All it makes you want to do is shove five more cookies down your gullet. (Your potentially upset tummy is irrelevant for the purposes of this metaphor.) All that is to say, yes, Mr. Scalzi, […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

Yet another glowing review for this gem of a book.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) by Becky Chambers

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I was going to give this four stars because I really enjoyed myself while reading it, but I didn’t get THAT FEELING, you know? But then I had this one thought afterwards that completely reshaped my perspective about the whole book and now I have to give it five stars. But first some context. This has been an absurdly well-reviewed book here at CBR (and everywhere else), and it pretty much came out of nowhere. It has been compared frequently to both Star Trek (because of its optimistic vision of humanity’s future) and Firefly (because of the ragtag, underdog nature of […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

Hey, look, we’re all different. Isn’t that swell?

The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the somewhat unwieldy title to an absolutely delightful story of a tightly-knit group of space-farers tasked with tunneling through space, setting up wormholes that allow for interplanetary travel. It’s set in the distant future (obviously), where humanity has made Earth uninhabitable and are scattered across the cosmos. They’ve joined a collective of alien races called the Galactic Commons. That’s pretty much it, in a nutshell. The broad elements here will be familiar to anyone who’s been in contact with the genre before, whether that contact be through Star Trek, Firefly, or […]

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4/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

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