Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“She’d played so many parts she hardly knew which one was her. She was an onion made of only skins with nothing at the centre.”

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

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Nowhere Book Bingo 26: Book rec from a friend (Ashley/Narfna loved this) Defeat the Goblin TBR: The Rogue Book – a book with politics/intrigue/sneakery involved (this book has all three and lots of it) CBR18 Bingo: Left (All of my fiction books are alphabetised by author, so Abercrombie comes to the very top left of the bookshelf it’s placed on) A cowardly monk. A mercenary. A vampire. A werewolf (who used to be a viking warrior). An elf. A necromancer. A knight who cannot die. […]

Zomromcom: Zombies and vampires and love, oh my

Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

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Even after the Harlot’s Bay experience, the newest of Olivia Dade’s works sounded interesting. This takes place in a version of our world where creatures from myth and legend have been revealed to be real by the fact that technology is everywhere and they can no longer hide from cameras and videos. Vampires, werewolves, trolls, fae, witches, etc are all real, and have been forced to start integrating into standard human society. As a result, non-powered humans did some dodgy experiments on themselves to try […]

When Lovecraft dons a Gimpsuit

The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross

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The Laundry is going stateside again—and I’m going to be dipping into spoilers again. Quite a lot in fact. Sorry. But look at all the blue hyperlinks; I’m making so many callbacks here! So about those spoilers; at the start of The Labyrinth Index, it is clear that Britain has fallen. There was no last minute mulligan after the last book’s events. The Senior Auditor of the Laundry sold the agency and the UK both out to the Black Pharaoh. And now Fabian Everyman—also known […]

Peace-loving, vegetarian vampires are as dull as they sound.

Blood Mercy: A Fantasy Romance (Blood Grace Book 1) by Vela Roth

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Lio had already wasted so much time and effort carefully constructing a plan for eternity, which had all come to naught. It was a fine, rare feeling to want nothing more than the present. ― Vela Roth, Blood Mercy Cassia is the bastard daughter of the king, and the offspring of one of his concubines. His true heir, the princess, died years ago, but was finally replaced by the next heir, a boy child who is now a teenage prince. The king uses Cassia as […]

When Lovecraft Wears an Investment Banker’s Face

The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross

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“Don’t be silly, Bob, said Mo, everyone knows vampires don’t exist!” This is the one with vampires in it. And investment bankers. Who are the greater bloodsuckers, you might ask? Trick question, they are one and the same.  Up until this point, a lot of the workplace drama side of The Laundry Files has been focused on the ins and outs of being a system admin for the civil service. A disproportionate amount of people that Bob (and by extension, the reader) have been rubbing […]

Damon Salvatore and gladiators

We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark

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I have started a few books in the last month or two that I fully intend to finish but they aren’t quite holding my attention and I keep starting new books rather than going back to them. So I feel like I have been struggling to get through novels but then I look back over my recent reads and realize, it’s not been that bad. Anyway, I was both interested in this book and skeptical because sometimes the booktok hype is just too much. However, […]



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