Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Next time the Library, not Bookstore

The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

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I put off reviewing this one because I didn’t want to get my first full intentional Cannonball with a mild disappointment.  I’d picked it up because I wanted something to read on a trans-Atlantic flight but ended watching Moana (cute although the songs weren’t as awesome as advertised) and Assassin’s Creed (wow, was that a bad movie) instead. I picked it up to read a few days later because the premise sounded interesting and it was billed as the first installment of a best-selling series. I should have known better, since I don’t have a great record with best-sellers or […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:53 |

Summer Reading concerning an Accountant of the Vampire Variety

The Utterly Uninteresting & Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes

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I saw this book in an airport bookstore a few years ago, added it to my Goodreads, and forgot about it. I recently found a novel I really enjoyed was by the same author, and was reminded of this one. Since I had an extended travel period coming up, I figured this would be a perfect thing to bring with me. I was right. Fred is a vampire who is also an accountant. He was your typical nerd in life, and finds that not much changes in undeath. Except that it does. While Fred himself may not have changed in […]

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7/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:48 |

I read this book in one sitting

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

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But I’m not really sure why. But there must have been something I liked to read it all at once. So why the 3 star rating? Well friends, in this house we deduct major points for a book that spends all of its time queerbaiting its readers. But I’m getting ahead of myself, and as glaring as it is this isn’t my only problem with the book. So let’s start at the beginning. Our story opens with Abby Rivers, now a successful adult with a generic job in a nondescript office, discovering that the exorcist has died. This isn’t really […]

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7/2/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:1 |

Eyeballs, cats, and tiger spirit monks, and a whole lot of kung-fu

The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson

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This book reminded me in some ways of The Ghost Bride, but it’s also the total opposite in other ways. Both novels have a feisty heroine, but The Girl with Ghost Eye’s Li-lin is a lot more self-sufficient and less maiden in distress than Li Lan. Li-lin is a martial artist who has the ability to see supernatural creatures, and she’s also the daughter of the head of a priesthood specializing in protecting people from evil spirits in late 19th century San Francisco’s Chinatown. She was also married to her father’s best student but he died a while before the […]

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7/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

A five-star read

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

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I think this is one of those books that I don’t really want to reveal too much of what happens because it’s about the journey.  But it begins with a woman named Myfawny (pronounced Miffany) Thomas who awakens in a park in London with no recollection of who she is, what she is doing there, and why is she is surrounded by a bunch of dead guys wearing gloves.  She finds a note in her pocket, written by her former self, letting her know what to do and where to go.  She checks into a hotel and is covered in […]

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5/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

A better ghost world than human

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

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When I was updating my Goodreads lists, I noticed something someone said about The Ghost Bride, to the effect of “this story is not about the characters; it’s about the world of the story.” Having just finished the book myself, I have to agree most thoroughly.  The world of the dead and the spaces where it connects with the world of the living is fascinating, and told with a lot of interesting detail, which is good, if like me, you don’t know a lot about Chinese folklore. How the dead can live off of offerings that are burnt for them […]

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5/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

“Do you consider me morally reprehensible for inadvertently selling my wife to the Devil?”

The Gentleman by Forrest Leo

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“It occurs to me with a shock that he may not like books.  I dismiss the thought as soon as it enters my head as too preposterous to be borne.  Not like books!  I cannot believe it of a fellow man.” This book is the driest of the dry of humor and I loved it.  I normally try to do my own plot summary for reviews, but I think that whomever wrote the blurb for this one did an excellent job, so I’m cribbing it from them:                    “When Lionel Savage, a popular poet in Victorian London, learns from his […]

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5/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

“I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.”

The Parasol Protectorate Series by Gail Carriger

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I am very late to the Parasol Protectorate party, which Gail Carriger threw from approximately 2009-2012, and celebrated the publication of a 5-book steampunk/urban fantasy series. Now that I have finally read the series, it’s evident that the fanfare is deserved. Carriger has a voice that is unique of her contemporaries, and while I consider all of my very favorite historical romance/fantasy books to have some measure of wit and humor, these books are on another level. If Wodehouse decided to dabble in the territory of vampires, werewolves, ghosties, and Victorian romance, the result would basically be what Carriger has […]

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3/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

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