Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Great Intro to T. Kingfisher

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

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CBR18 BINGO: One (standalone book) I am not the type to decide someone is an autobuy author based just on one book. But if I were, Nettle & Bone would have done it. I had a really good time with this. Marra is the youngest princess of a small kingdom and has lived in a convent from the age of 15 for political reasons. At age 30 she becomes aware of the abuse her sister is suffering at the hands of her royal husband, and Marra sets out […]

“It was just that whenever she had thought of seeing the world, she had never realized what it would be like to have the world see her back.”

The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Parry

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Just lovely from beginning to end. I really need more people to read this! It’s just such a nice little story. The main character is Biddy, a seventeen year old young woman who washed up on the shores of a magical island as a baby and was taken in by the magician, Rowan, and his rabbit familiar Hutchincroft. She can’t do magic herself, but she is raised to love it and want to protect it. And though she loves living on the magical island of […]

I did not expect to love this book so much, or at all. #CBRBingo – Reader’s Choice

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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I really, really liked this. I was actually really nervous about this one because I did not like her first book, The Bone Season, when I read it years ago. It was by turns over- and under-written, and to me at least, was obviously written by someone still finding her writing voice. I was hoping that in the future she would write something else that would show her matured talents, and sure enough, that is exactly what happened. What a difference ten years can make […]



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