Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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hot take exactly the book I needed, despite having literally no context or appreciation for the in-universe joke

Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon

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BINGO: Red, what a fantastic dress our female hero’s got on What a funny book, I knew it was something something but I didn’t bother to look too closely before picking it up — while I’ve found her Hurricane Wars series a bit uneven, Guanzon’s earlier fannish work remains some of my all time faves. I’ve grown out of the descriptions of clothes for sure, but she’s got a deft touch for dialogue and scene setting…and a very good touch when it comes to frick […]

still confusing, but promising

A Monsoon Rising by Thea Guanzon

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I have to say this started out sort of two-star-y, with what felt again like too much exposition of a magic system that doesn’t really make sense and stakes that seem hard to place. Side bar, the magic continues to not make sense to me, as it does not follow Sanderson’s Second Law of limitations being more important than powers–night magic and light weave can just be created into anything, a la the Green Lantern(?), as long as you are sufficiently concentrated and have worked […]

there were MORE (there are always more)

Compulsory by Martha Wells

Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel

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Compulsory by Martha Wells Murderbot shortly returns, in a book that I was happy to pay $0.99 for to get as much of the world as I possibly could. As someone who spent all last week happily reading and then having to spring out of bed/sofa to catch my father about to trip or someone who needed help with something that definitely didn’t NEED my help but probably justified it, I understand exactly where Murderbot is coming from and where it wants to go (back […]



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