Cannonball Read 18

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We’re up all night to get lucky

Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison

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I read the original novels from The Hollows series (I couldn’t bring myself to read the follow ups since she had written the perfect epilogue and I didn’t want it to no longer count) but haven’t picked anything up from Kim Harrison in a while. The Hollows as a series ended up having such extensive world building as the series progressed that I really appreciated but Rachel Morgan as a character took a while to grow on me (definitely took more books than Kate Daniels […]

Might be time for a Hidden Legacy reread!

Beast Business by Ilona Andrews

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I knew Ilona Andrews had a new novel coming out very soon but this novella in the Hidden Legacy universe was a bit of a surprise (no, I still haven’t signed up for the newsletter). This focuses on two characters outside the family that we have seen pop up over the years – Augustine, an Illusion Prime, Head of House Montgomery and the agency Nevada once worked for, and Diana, animal mage, Head of House Harrison and ally to House Baylor through her brother and […]

Taking Time to Recover

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

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Ugh, slow start to the year. Winter is a terrible time for me. I’m going to blame Mab.  Because, why not? From what I understand, Twelve Months was not originally part of the original ‘Dresden Files’ line up; the next planned book after Battleground, if I remember right, was meant to be titled Mirror Mirror. But after the what was a very action heavy and unrelenting previous installment for the reader—and potentially the worst weekend of their life for the protagonist—I can see how we […]

Writing as therapy: the latest Dresden Files novel

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

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The publication gap between Battle Ground and the new book Twelve Months has been over 5 years, the longest in this series. The back-to-back of Peace Talks and Battle Ground left Harry Dresden in a bad place, and from reading that – and now Twelve Months – it was clear to me that Jim Butcher didn’t appear to be in a good place either. That’s proved true as he’s spoken about his depression, and a divorce that left him struggling – but also not in such a bad […]

As if going home isn’t bad enough, now you’re also a werewolf

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

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One thing that I really appreciated about this novel and was rather refreshing is that after the narrator, Rory, gets bit by a werewolf, she doesn’t spend weeks denying the idea of the supernatural. From the beginning, she acknowledges that she was bitten by a monster, even if she tells everyone it was a bear because she doesn’t want people to think she is crazy. Based on her new cravings and other changes, she quickly puts it together with werewolf. She still doesn’t totally believe […]

64 months later, a new Dresden Files

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

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I used to really like The Dresden Files but I haven’t been as excited about them in a long time. The two long gaps between releases didn’t help at all, and after discovering Seanan McGuire and Ilona Andrews, some of the bro-iness of The Dresden Files was bit harder to overlook/stood out more in comparison. While Harry matured a lot over the years in that regard, he seemed to be backsliding in the novels released most recently before this one, 2020’s Peace Talks and Battle […]



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