Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

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I really enjoyed the first book in this series and kept wondering where the other books were, well we get the second book in the Swordheart series now and the third and final one next year called Shieldborn. This was a long slow romantasy novel that I think will thrill T. Kingfisher fans. We have more information about The World of the White Rat and some call backs to her other works in the Clocktaur War series. Daggerbound follows Learned Edmund who is ready to […]

not my favorite visit to the world of the white rat, but that’s a bit splitting hairs

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo “left” because the Dervish (Dervish? he sometimes is The Dervish and sometimes just Dervish, it’s hard to tell) has been left behind, without his mercenary party, and will keep being so given the whole immortal being hanging out with human meat Having not re-read Swordheart nor Clocktaur Wars Which is to say, unfortunately this book didn’t quite do it for me, at least not as much as the much-belatedly-read Swordheart did. We meet the second of three (?) enchanted swords in this, the second go-around in […]

A Romantasy Road Trip

Swordheart by T, Kingfisher

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CBR18 BINGO: Steal  CW for suicidality It’s official. After reading two books by Kingfisher, getting mad that I had to go to bed because I didn’t want to put them down, and ultimately really enjoying both of them, I am now a Kingfisher fan and will be reading as much of her work as I can (most likely excluding some of the horror). At the beginning of Swordheart, Halla is considering taking drastic action after being locked in her room for 3 days. She inherited her great […]

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Dragonbreath V01 by Ursula Vernon

Harriet, Hamster Princess V01 Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon

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Awhile ago, there as a post about T. Kingfisher here that made me curious about them as a writer. I started thinking I wouldn’t read anything they had written as it was horror and darker fantasy. Great genres, just not my usual reads. But then I heard the name Ursula Vernon. Okay….. I know that name….WAIT I do know the name! She is the Dragonbreath and Harriet, Hamster Princess author. Books for young children.  Okay, now you’re talking (writing) my language. Well, Dragonbreath, #1 and […]

CBR BINGO: Summer—“That is not a load-bearing ear!”

Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2) by T. Kingfisher

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Honestly, there is a character in here that I was obsessed with IMMEDIATELY and had they been present throughout the narrative, this was going to get five stars. However, they were not, so I am only giving it 4.5, because I missed them when they were gone. Daggerbound is the sequel to 2020’s Swordheart, which was the first T. Kingfisher book I ever read, and still holds a special […]

Some novellas as a little treat

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Repair – In Automatic Noodle, the characters not only literally work to repair themselves and each other because they are robots who need repair after a few months of being shut down, but they also work to repair the reputation of their restaurant so they can grow it into a thriving establishment. CBR Bingo: Refuge – In Nine Goblins, Sings-To-Trees has created a refuge where magical and non-magical creatures alike can come for help. Automatic Noodle Automatic Noodle takes places in the not-too-distant […]



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