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. […]

Goth love

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

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Fangs by Sarah Andersen chronicles a supernatural love story between Elsie the vampire and Jimmy the werewolf. The graphic novel is a series of comic vignettes with a loose linear progression of their relationship. They awkwardly meet and discover they both have “fangs” in common. This was both funny and sweet. They may be monsters, but they’re super relatable. Eventually, they move in together and learn each other’s unique quirks. She can’t be in direct sunlight, a natural goth. He turns into a wolf when […]

Back to beginning of the Immortals After Dark universe

A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole

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9 years later, I’ve still not finished Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series. But I do own all of them since Kresley kindly stopped by The Ripped Bodice to sign the re-release of the series. I adore the new cover of A Hunger Like No Other, which is now a comfort read. I re-read it for TRB’s fantasy book club in July, and devoured it once again! I wouldn’t have guessed that from my first review. But here we are, unabashedly loving fated supernatural mates […]

Asil the Great and Powerful

Blind Date with A Werewolf by Patricia Briggs

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In which we find out what happens when the most legendary (in his own mind) werewolf in all the land is set up on a series of blind dates. Asil is perfectly content living a reclusive life tending to his flowers. When a Concerned Friend sends him an e-mail informing him that he has been set up on five dates through various websites over the next three weeks, Asil takes it in stride. Who wouldn’t want to spend a delightful evening with all of his […]

Probably a great satire, what do I know. CBRBINGO – Purple

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis

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I’m sad I didn’t like this one very much. It was much less fun and funny than I was hoping it would be, with that premise. (That premise: a young couple’s five year old daughter is bitten by a werewolf and then becomes a werewolf herself, upon which they discover there is a secret magical world among the mundane one. Then there is a PTA, but at a mAgiC sChOoL.) Where I wish this had been more lighthearted and focused on the school and magic […]

“Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.”

Soulless by Gail Carriger

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It’s dreadfully awkward being soulless in Victorian High Society. Add to that being the spinster daughter of a dead Italian, and life just isn’t working out for Alexia Tarabotti, and that’s before she’s attacked by a vampire at a social gathering. Bad enough that breaks all societal etiquette, but it also comes along with the downside that now Alexia has to deal with Lord Conall Maccon, the loud, obnoxious, Scottish werewolf sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. It seems that known vampires are disappearing nightly, […]



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