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You must run now, and—” she hesitates. “And?”“Keep running,”

Shadow Thief by Intisar Khanani

Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

August 29, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

A few years ago several Cannonballers were reading Intisar Khanani’s self published YA fantasy books. Khanani writes the kind of book that grabs you and doesn’t let go featuring teen girls who are chronically underestimated. Khanani is rereleasing her Sunbolt Chronicles, and I am brushing off my YA reading hat. I haven’t read YA since the pandemic started, and that’s no slight to the genre, it’s just where my head has been. Shadow Thief and Sunbolt are a great re-entry point. Hitomi is an immigrant […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #23for23, advance reader copy, Intisar Khanani, NetGalley, Shadow Thief, Sunbolt

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:79 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #23for23, advance reader copy, Intisar Khanani, NetGalley, Shadow Thief, Sunbolt ·
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Justice served with a side of pineapple. That’s what I’m here for.

Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

May 5, 2019 by tillie 2 Comments

Sunbolt is one of those books that suck you in and you can’t put down. We meet Hitomi as she is on her way to a secret meeting that she hasn’t been invited to. A fortune teller stops her and begs to tell her fortune (which is of course delightfully vague and thrillingly ominous) telling her to run. Soon, sure enough the armed guards of the evil Blackflame are at her heals and she must run to escape them. Not just because she is foreign, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr11, Fiction, Intisar Khanani, Mathildehoeg, Sunbolt, tilliereads, YA, Young Adult

tillie's CBR11 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr11, Fiction, Intisar Khanani, Mathildehoeg, Sunbolt, tilliereads, YA, Young Adult ·
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You can keep my future, it will probably do you more good than me

February 4, 2017 by Emmalita 2 Comments

A few days ago I read J’s review of Memories of Ash, the second book in a new, on-going series of YA fantasy novels. J wants Cannonballers to read it, so I picked up the first book, Sunbolt. After I finished Sunbolt, I saw there was a free short story, The Bone Knife, so I scooped that up too. Sunbolt is a very fast read. I enjoyed it. Khanani keeps the action focused on her protagonist Hitomi and mostly leaves the world building for the reader to glean […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Intisar Khanani, Memories of Ash, Sunbolt

Emmalita's CBR9 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Intisar Khanani, Memories of Ash, Sunbolt ·
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