Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Dense But Worth the Read

Thousand Autumns Volume One by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Two by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Three by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Four by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Five by Meng Xi Shi

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Yan Wushi is a cynic as well as a master cultivator and leader of a demonic sect.  When the head of a Daoist sect, Shen Qiao, loses a duel and is badly injured, Yan Wushi decides to take the injured man in and see if he can corrupt him.  Their clashing philosophies towards the world put them on separate paths, but while each sees the world in different ways, they do live in the same world.  As their paths continue to meet and separate over […]

An Intriguing Beginning

Dinghai Fusheng Records Vol. 1 by Lv Fei

Dinghai Fusheng Records Vol. 2 by Lv Fei

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Chen Xing is the last Great Exorcist, charged with protecting the world from a demonic entity.  He’s also all of sixteen and expects to die on his twentieth birthday.  Setting off to find his counterpart, the “Protector Martial God”, things aren’t exactly going as planned.  His “Protector Martial God” turns out to be a mysterious man with a possibly criminal past that wants nothing to do with him.  Drought Fiends are popping up all over the place and seems like sinister magic is afoot. This […]

Sometimes Family Is a Group of Bandits Fighting the Powers That Be

The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

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Lin Chong is content with her position as an expert arms instructor to the Emperor’s troops and sees no need to push the status quo like some of her friends.  Then she runs afoul of a powerful man who takes everything she’s worked for away from her.  Branded a criminal and uncertain of her future, Lin Chong finds herself welcomed in to a group of bandits who turn out to care more about justice than the empire Lin Chong served.  On their own they are […]

A Title Both Literal and Not

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

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I saw the author post something on social media before this was released about how some early readers didn’t think the novella had enough fighting to be wuxia. Zen Cho said that was because she meant for the novella to be a fan-fic of an imaginary 50 episode tv series of that genre. I don’t really know much about wuxia but I do think that The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water has the flavor of it at least. The general premise is […]



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