Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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My love for the beautiful cover did not translate to love, or even like, of the book.

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

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I AM NOT ALLOWED TO GET LIT-FIC FROM BOOK OF THE MONTH ANYMORE*. I am completely unable to judge this book on it own merits because I was so unenthused while reading it, and the style really put me off. People are absolutely shitting themselves over this one, and it sounded so interesting to me, I’m upset I didn’t get anything out of it. *Except, this one time they had The Vanishing Half? And I loved that book. Maybe I will just make my rule […]

I’m so sorry, Malin. I have failed you with my terrible choices.

Kushiel's Chosen (Phedre's Trilogy, #2) by Jacqueline Carey

Kushiel's Avatar (Phedre's Trilogy, #3) by Jacqueline Carey

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This is a joint review for the last two books in this series. I am not rating either of the second two books in this trilogy, and here is a review length treatise on why that is not at all actually a review: Sometimes you make a mistake and then instead of admitting it, you just double down. Or, you know it’s a mistake and you double- and triple down anyway. This is both of those in one instance. I read the first book in […]

“The world might crumble, but Nikolai Lantsov would be holding up the ceiling with one hand and plucking a speck of dirt from his lapel with the other when it all went to ruin.”

Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

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This was actually a really great ending (for now?), except for this one thing that I hated. It also managed to change my mind about several things I thought I didn’t like about the last book, and several plot twists took me completely by surprise, both of which are quite the feats! This review won’t make sense, and I’m not even going to try to make it make sense, if you haven’t read the previous books in this series and Six of Crows. Just a […]

A series that peters out like a sad fart. Is that mean. If it is, let me know and I will change this title.

A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes, #4) by Sabaa Tahir

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I was so annoyed with this one by the end that I almost one-starred it, but I didn’t hate the first half, and honestly it’s not trash, and I usually save that one-star for true dislike or hatred. This really didn’t reach that level. To be clear, though, I also really did not like it. And it’s held up my review queue for frickin’ forever. And I liked the first book so much! Gah. Anyway, I didn’t like this as an ending, or really as […]

“I can’t excuse what he did next except by saying that he was very sorry for it afterward (and so were a good many other people).”

The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

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So before I discovered Harry Potter (sigh) this used to be my very favorite fantasy series. I read and re-read several of them endlessly, including this one. But I haven’t revisited it in years and years. I don’t even remember the last time I read it. Maybe when one of the movies came out? (The movies never captured the magic for me.) Anyway, I’ve been comfort re-reading favorite fantasy books over the past year and I had the hankering to pick this one back up […]

“Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.”

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

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This was so good! I’m so mad I didn’t read it as a kid. I mean, I’m an adult reading this for the first time, and even though I’m notoriously bad at figuring out mysteries, this was still quite the puzzle. It was just as well-constructed as an adult mystery, just with a different tone. And a main character called Turtle. What I liked best about this, besides the puzzle-like nature of it, was the human kindness it had at its core. It’s been since […]



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