Cannonball Read 18

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Paladin’s Strength: Every tagline I think of is just fraught with spoilers.

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

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I read the second installment of the Saint of Steel series entirely on audiobook. I found listening to this book – in comparison to Paladin’s Grace – to be less grating, but it still suffered from a few of the things that I didn’t love about the first book in the series. There is so much going for this book – the characters are delightful; the inclusion of a big/tall/possibly fat woman as the FMC is amazing; the side characters are a joy; the secondary […]

Update on Paladin’s Grace: An unenthusiastic DNF; UNO reverse; DIF (Did Indeed Finish)

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

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After writing my original review, I kept wondering if a different format might suit me better for this book. So I borrowed the ebook, and wow did that make a world of difference. I could skip and skim the inner monologues until they lessened. A little after mid-way through the book, the plot really picked up, the two main characters started interacting more – with each other and with others that can knock some sense into them, other things started happening to keep them busy […]

“Potatoes…do not make gods.”

Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher

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T. Kingfisher was my most read author in 2025 (I read five of her books and reviewed two), so I had planned to wait before reviewing anymore of her books, but my hold for Hemlock and Silver finally came up on Libby, and I enjoyed it too much not to talk about it. So here we are. Anja is an expert in poisons. Or, more specifically, she is an expert in antidotes. But when the king himself summons her to investigate the poisoning of his daughter, […]

Part 10 It’s Going to Come Down to Semantics

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Back Story by David Mitchell

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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Book 46: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher Rough Review: 4 stars! It was already official but I’ll say it again – I’ll read anything by Kingfisher/Vernon. Her books are just comfort food to me at this point. Hemlock wasn’t my favourite (the Paladin books are what I discovered first and the world of the White Rat is my favourite Kingfisher place to be), but the concept was cool and intriguingly creepy, I love a neurodiverse-coded protagonist in her mid-30s who gets to have a […]

I got 3 hours and 52 books. Let’s see if I can finally do this.

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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Whelp, I apologize in advance for what I’m about to do. For 17 years I have been trying to complete a full Cannonball and I have never once succeeded. Sometimes I don’t read enough, but mostly I don’t write enough. I get caught up in knots trying to write a perfect review and then worry I’m spending too much time writing instead of reading and it becomes a whole thing because my brain is a nightmare. So this year I decided I’d just write rough […]

Mirror, Mirror

Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher

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This is T. Kingfisher’s take on the Snow White story, and as always, I quite enjoyed her take. But it’s also not my favorite of hers (that might still be Nettle and Bones for these stand alones). There was something with this one where it felt like we stalled in the middle or forgot the main point of the story and got too distracted. Another review on Goodreads stated something along the lines of this being a novel where the author got a bit too […]



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