Cannonball Read 18

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A Solid Sequel

Espíritu by Aiden Thomas

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cbr18 BINGO: 26 (published 2026) If Cemetery Boys was Yadriel’s story, this one is Julian’s story. We get POV chapters from both characters, but more from Julian. The book is set a month or two after the first book, and the brujx community has welcomed Julian with open arms. This makes it difficult to navigate his relationships with his “normie” brother and friends because he has to keep brujx secrets. Julian can now see and talk to spirits, but when he starts seeing dark marks on himself and […]

Dear Faerie: This is Why Children Go No-Contact With Their Parents

A Divided Duty by Seanan McGuire

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Trust the faeries to bring on the soap opera messes. One of the consequences of being both incredibly long lived—or even effectivly immortal—and being so variant that you’re more of a species cluster than a true cohesive group is that when the interpersonal dramas hit, they really hit. If you constructed a push-pin map that covered October Daye’s friends, family and allegiances at the start of the series and now, at book twenty, you would be shocked at how things have changed.  But let’s take […]

I can’t believe we were almost killed by a hedge.

A Marvelous Light: The Last Binding Book #1 by Freya Marske

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CBR18 Bingo: Craft – Edwin must hone his craft as a spellcaster as he is not as naturally gifted as his other family members. Blyth gave him an exceedingly stubborn look. God save Edwin from the idiotic flower of English manhood. ― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light You could have been done helping us in the time it’s taken you to explain exactly how unhelpful you delight in being. ― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light As a baronet, Robin is assigned an easy job at […]

It’s not a crime to feel joy, even when things seem hopeless.

Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross

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CBR18 Bingo: Refuge – Iris and Roman find refuge in their correspondence. The days to come will only grow darker. And when you find something good? You hold on to it. You don’t waste time worrying about things that won’t even matter in the end. Rather, you take a risk for that light. ― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be. ― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals Iris Winnow and Roman Kitt are the same age and […]

Of Wasps and Other Incryptids

Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire

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While I usually end up staying up too late whenever Seanan McGuire releases a new novel because I need to know what will happen, this novel took me longer to read than any other of her previous books (a whole 3 days so nothing drastic). However, while this one took longer than normal to truly pull me in, I ultimately quite enjoyed it and how McGuire managed to bring together and resolve threads that had been pending for several novels, changing the status quo of […]

The Hubris and Entitlement of Alchemists

Inkpot Gods by Seanan McGuire

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I have read most of what Seanan McGuire has written, including under her pen name Mira Grant, so of course I jumped at Netgalley’s offer of an ARC of Inkpot Gods, the fourth of her Alchemical Journeys novels (she also did a spin off of this series, writing some of the often referenced children’s books that alchemist Asphodel Deborah Baker used to share her studies in plain sight). As far as I am tracking, this series is intended to be five books total, and this […]



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