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The only reason I read so much is because Cannonball Read has gamified reading and because I hate losing. Give me a fantasy novel with a unique magical system, and I'm happy. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Mobius_Walker's Quick Questions interview.)

Mobius_Walker's Reviews:

A fantastic magic system weighed down by an unnecessary narrative structure

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

June 5, 2022 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

Tea (pronounced “tee-uh”) is a young girl who, up until her older brother’s funeral, was largely unremarkable. But, in a moment of grief, she raised her brother from the dead. This marked her a bone witch, a witch who can work with dark magic to not only raise the dead but command daeva, monsters that roam the world wreaking havoc on innocent civilians. Upon demonstrating her abilities, she is located by an established and powerful bone witch named Lady Mykaela who takes her under her […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Rin Chupeco

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Rin Chupeco ·
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A magical love letter to NYC

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

June 3, 2022 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

New York City has been born as a great city of the world and she has chosen her avatar. This happens from time to time as enough people and ideas coalesce in one spot. It happened to Rio de Janerio, to Hong Kong, to London, and many more. And now it’s happening to New York. Except this time, one single person is not embodying the entire city like has always been the case. Instead there is an additional avatar for each of the five boroughs […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, n.k. jemisin, New York City, queens, Staten Island

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, n.k. jemisin, New York City, queens, Staten Island ·
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Support your local drag queens!

50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World by Dan Jones

June 2, 2022 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Happy Pride, everyone! Dan Jones attempts to document the 50 most important drag queens who have changed the world. For each queen, he writes a couple of paragraphs about their accomplishments and impact on the world and there’s a cute illustration from Michele Rosenthal of each performer. This is admittedly a herculean undertaking, and Jones gives it a good go. On the whole, he does fine. There seems to be a concerted effort to not just include contestants from RuPaul’s Drag Race on this list which […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Dan Jones, drag, drag queens, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Michele Rosenthal, pride month

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Dan Jones, drag, drag queens, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Michele Rosenthal, pride month ·
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A successful send-up is tricky to do, and I don’t think this one works

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

May 24, 2022 by Mobius_Walker 1 Comment

I loved Grady Hendrix’s book Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. It was a wonderful, satirical send up of vampire novels and the Southern suburbs. I get that is wasn’t for everyone, but Hendrix really nailed his tongue-in-check, nearly meta take on vampire troupes and Southern suburb living. So when I saw that Hendrix had written a book to be a send of slasher films and final girls, I was stoked. Hendrix, however, missed this mark with this one. The set-up is straightforward: Lynette […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: final girls, grady hendrix, slasher

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: final girls, grady hendrix, slasher ·
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A collection that’s a little all over the place, but wholly enjoyable

Hex Life by Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering

May 22, 2022 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

I do not think I am the target reader for a short story. I value stories that have complete resolutions. I want characters that have had the chance to rise and fall, succeed and fail, and sometimes more than once. These things are not always the aim of a short story. I get that, and yet I keep going back to these collections. This is one of the first collections that I have read that are all written by different authors. Though each story centers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: alma katsu, Amber Benson, Angela Slatter, Ania Ahlborn, chesya burke, Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering, helen marshall, hillary monahan, Jennifer McMahon, Kat Howard, Kelley Armstrong, kristin dearborn, madaug kenyon, Mary SanGiovanni, rachel autumn deering, Rachel Caine, Sarah Langan, sherrilyn kenyon, tananarive due, theodora goss

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: alma katsu, Amber Benson, Angela Slatter, Ania Ahlborn, chesya burke, Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering, helen marshall, hillary monahan, Jennifer McMahon, Kat Howard, Kelley Armstrong, kristin dearborn, madaug kenyon, Mary SanGiovanni, rachel autumn deering, Rachel Caine, Sarah Langan, sherrilyn kenyon, tananarive due, theodora goss ·
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I’m sorry, Cannonballers, but I did not buy a ticket for the hype-train

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

April 26, 2022 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

Let’s just jump right in. My biggest issue that I had with Gideon the Ninth is that I frequently did not know entirely what was going on. And not in a “Ohh, there’s a mystery afoot, and people are being secretive” nor in a “The narrator and I are both doubting reality” a la Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. I just kept feeling like I was missing things. Missing lines of dialogue, missing transitions, missing some exposition. Gideon Nav is a member of the Ninth House (as an indentured […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: bone magic, lgbt, necromancer, tamsyn muir

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: bone magic, lgbt, necromancer, tamsyn muir ·
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