Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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When Fairy Tales go bad

Deadly Ever After by Ben Aaronovitch

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Deadly Ever After is the latest graphic novel from the increasingly extensive Rivers of London series. I read it as the 4 comics but it will also be available in graphic novel form (which is what I’ll buy my mum for her to read). Sequence wise this is the latest chronological story in canon so may not work for a new reader but as it mostly focuses on 2 side characters it could actually work ok as an introduction to a London in which magic […]

The Elenium & Tamuli: More fantasy tropes than you can imagine

The Diamond Throne by David Eddings

The Ruby Knight by David Eddings

The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings

Domes of Fire by David Eddings

The Shining Ones by David Eddings

The Hidden City by David Eddings

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After the success of the Belgariad and Malloreon the author David Eddings followed it up with another twin series – this time the trilogies known as the Elenium and the Tamuli. These series focused initially on a quasi-medieval European society complete with monarchies, internal squabbles between nobility, knights in armour, and a dominant Catholic style church. Later, we travel further afield into an East Asian analogue as well. Layered over this is the concept of gods being very real and capable of giving the gift […]

Robots, monsters, and medieval, chinese culture

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

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I first encountered Xiran Jay Zhao via twitter when friends linked to her takedown of the 2020 Mulan film (well worth watching – the takedown, not the movie) so when I read that she was writing a novel that built on Medieval Chinese concepts with giant robots and monsters/kaiju I was obviously going to read it. In Iron Widow we see a patriarchal society in which women are very much second class citizens. For most it’s marriage and hope you get a good husband. And […]

Pieces of Silver: A return to the Folly

Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch

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Amongst Our Weapons is the 9th full length novel in the Rivers of London series and as per usual is definitely not the place to start if you haven’t read any of the books yet. (If you haven’t they are very good so head back to book 1 and pick it up!). And if you’re wondering why I’ve titled this review Pieces of Silver it’s because I won of the 100 celebratory coins minted for the publication of this book 🙂 We are once again […]

Revisiting Midkemia

Magician by Raymond E Feist

Silverthorn by Raymond E Feist

A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E Feist

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It’s been a strange year, I actually started it reading at pace but then lost my inspiration for writing about what I’d read. Going to try and make up for that now by reviewing my trip back to Midkemia! Raymond Feist’s fantasy world, based on the D&D game he and friends played, is always a solid read. It’s a richly detailed fantasy epic comprising inter-related shorter series and actually came to a conclusion in Magician’s End many years after the first books. I’ve revisited the […]

A return to the old kingdom

Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix

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Way back in 1995 Garth Nix created an intriguing world with his book Sabriel. A world in which a kingdom of magic was separated from a more mundane land (Ancelstierre) that felt like 1930’s England, and in that magic kingdom necromancers raised the dead and risked the world to bring back an ancient evil. Fighting against this were the Abhorsen, a family of good necromancers whose job it was to return the undead to the afterlife. It was a great and rich world that was […]



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