Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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World of the White Rat: A Kingfisher-palooza or An Embarrassment of Paladins

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: You – As in, “It was always you.” Or, “I love you.” It could work for several of these books, but let’s say Paladin’s Faith. When I first read the Paladin’s one and two (Grace and Strength) earlier this year, I was pretty underwhelmed. And then I was sad that I was underwhelmed because they really felt like they should be in my wheelhouse. So, I put aside T. Kingfisher for a while. I figured if I came back and liked her books […]

Daughter of the Lioness: Land Back, but make it fantasy

Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce

Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce

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The Daughter of the Lioness duet is the final set in the Tortall series that I will be re-reading. There’s also the Beka Cooper books that I’ve never read and the first of the unfinished Numair series, but I’ll be moving away from Tortall after this. Until this point, we’ve been moving further and further away from the Mary Sue of it all. At the beginning we had Alanna. Alanna was imbued with skills and abilities that are unbelievable for any eleven-year-old to possess, like […]

The doggy does fine

Mission Yozakura Family vol. 5 by Hitsuji Gondaira

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Bingo 11: Relation-ship The manga Mission: Yozakura Family is pretty trope-y but still mostly entertaining. In volume 5 a there are a handful or inter-personal relationships that make some progress as well as an actual ship (ok, small fishing vessel and also a submarine makes a brief appearance; that counts). The main mystery of what really happened to Taiyo’s family makes a bit of progress when it turns out there’s a connection that he didn’t know about to his ‘wife’s’ (they’re about 16, so that […]

Momma’s Turn to Kick Butt

Spy X Family vol 8 by Tatsuya Endo

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Manga parents are usually either absent or flat stereotypes; is some ways Loid and Yor’s relationship in Spy X Family goes that way; they are not absent parents to Anya, but they do play into the “I think I like you but I can’t possibly say that out loud” trope. Their marriage was faked because Yor needed a man in her life to draw attention away from herself (she’s an assassin) and Loid needed a wife to complete his fake family that he needs for […]



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