Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Come for the food, stay for the food.

The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date, #3) by Jasmine Guillory

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I should have kept track of how many pizzas were consumed in this book. (Do not read this, or really any of Jasmine Guillory’s books, if you are hungry.) This book was the perfect choice for a lazy Saturday afternoon. Theo and Maddie have a best friend in common (Alexa from Guillory’s first book, The Wedding Date) but have disliked each other from their first meeting. Maddie thinks Theo is a pompous, boring know-it-all who is dismissive of her job, and Theo thinks Maddie is […]

I think I might be done with YA sci-fi.

Ignite the Stars (Ignite the Stars, #1) by Maura Milan

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So many mixed feelings about this! I picked this up mostly because I needed to fill the “book by an AOC set in or about space” challenge for Read Harder, but it had been a while since I’d read any YA sci-fi, and I figured it’d been long enough that I might enjoy myself. I do not believe I have ever *really* enjoyed a YA sci-fi novel. The length and subject matter limitations on YA really cut back on what I enjoy most about sci-fi, […]

If you want to scare me, just put a skinwalker in your book.

Tricked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #4) by Kevin Hearne

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I’m happy to say this was the best of these books yet. Makes sense. The urban fantasy I’ve read all start to crystallize around books three and four. That’s usually when you’ve got enough set-up and characters that you can start moving the pieces around in more interesting ways, and building on what you’ve already laid out. Here, we’ve got Atticus and his apprentice Granuaile on the run, both of them having newly faked their deaths (well, Atticus fakes his death starting on page one, […]

“I don’t turn toward the light because it means someday I’ll ‘win’ some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light.”

Star Wars: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray

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Still ace at Star Wars novels, Claudia. I really should read her non-Star Wars work at some point, but every time I finish one of her SW books, I’m left satisfied, and feel no need to do so. Perhaps this is a mistake. This book was unexpected, both in that she chose to write about the earlier period of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s partnership instead of the later period most SW writers play in, and that I enjoyed it so much, when I’m usually […]

The feather underground is real.

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

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I picked this book up for a couple of reading challenges, but I ended up really enjoying it (it’s surprisingly difficult to find a non-violent true crime book! Or, actually is it surprising? Maybe it’s totally expected). I basically read this in two sittings, one yesterday morning, and one after dinner. It’s only 254 pages long, and it’s a fast read (the rest of the page count is extensive notes, sources and an index). Johnson became personally obsessed with the story of a twenty year […]

A trip to the Moor is a trip to Dullsville, unfortunately.

The Moor (Mary Russell, #4) by Laurie R. King

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Three stars is a combo of me not being in the mood and forcing it, and the book being not as good as I wanted it to be. (six months later as I go to actually write this review) No, I’m not even going to make excuses for this. It was very dull! The setting was dull. The mystery was dull. The interactions between Holmes and Mary were dull. Holmes was dull! And the resolution of the mystery did nothing for me. Returning to the […]



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