Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Shut up, Brenner! (Sob!)

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

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Did I have time to binge listen to The Clocktaur Wars series? No. Did I do it anyway? Yep. I read Daggerbound and then I realized that I needed to refresh myself on Learned Edmund’s origin story. I had listened to Clockwork Boys and The Wonder Engine a couple of years ago while I was suffering from a bug. The combination of T. Kingfisher’s story and Khristine Hvam’s narration make a great distraction, but I can’t say the I was paying enough attention to retain […]

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 […]

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 […]

done with this world for now :(

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

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While I enjoyed this last entry in the Saint of Steel series (especially because we do see our favorites from the prior two books!), in a nutshell I think it suffered from 1) being more of a standalone story (with the smooth skin man issue being solved in the prior novel) and 2) the moral of the story overshadowing the main plot as well. In this novel, we have the story of Gay Galen, who knows for a sure 1000% fact that he doesn’t want […]

Tamora Pierce, but with Adult Bits

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

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These books are like, Tamora Pierce for adults. << the first review-like sentence I had written in ages, which I just had to note because it had been on the tip of my tongue through all the previous Universe of the White Rat books just why I liked these… So, to whit: these books are like Tamora Pierce, but for adults (i.e., starring adults, with adult scenes–as an adult who still reads Tamora Pierce novels and considers the Circle of Magic series one of her favorites). […]

finally finally reading this! can’t even remember who recommended it

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

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And finally, one of my white whale books falls! This book has been hanging around my Kindle for literal eons (sort of like a knight trapped in a sword, if we were being cute). So, the plot. Halla is being trapped in what is rightly her house after the death of her great-uncle, whom she cared for out of the goodness of her own heart because she is a good person and her great-uncle’s family is not. She’s being pressured to give up the inheritance, […]



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