Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm Natalie and 2025 is my second year participating in cannonball read. I love reading, especially fantasy and science fiction books. I live on Vancouver Island, in Canada.

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“Wealth is just security. Luxury is living carefree.”

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

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I absolutely love Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle series—I find her writing very beautiful, and it’s one of a few YA series that I fully recommend to adults as well. I’ve been looking forward to reading The Listeners, her debut adult novel, since I’d heard it was going to be released. The story opens in January of 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the US into World War 2. June is the general manager of a luxury hotel catering to […]

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

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I think at this point I’ve read everything T. Kingfisher has published (the full-length novels at least, I think there’s still a few short stories I’ve yet to make it through). My favourite is probably Paladin’s Grace, but even the books I liked less (What Moves the Dead) I still liked. Therefore, I’ve been eagerly awaiting any of her new releases. I was lucky enough to recently be allowed to access an ARC (obligatory this hasn’t affected the contents of my review!) for one of […]

Back to the beginning

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

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I’ve read a number of books in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and have enjoyed them to varying degrees (my favourite so far is probably Soul Music). It’s a 41-book comedic fantasy series that’s really more of a collection of subseries and standalone novels set in a shared world. Traditional wisdom is that it’s actually not recommended to start at the beginning as the first few books aren’t a good representation of the overall quality of the work (my personal recommendation for starting is the fourth […]

Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine

Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

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As I mentioned in my review, I really enjoyed Vivian Shaw’s Strange Practice, the first in a series of novels following Dr. Greta Helsing, a physician to the undead. I flew through it so quickly that I pretty much immediately went out and bought the rest of the series, the second of which is Dreadful Company. This installment sees Greta leaving London and visiting Paris for a medical conference, accompanied by her vampiric friend Lord Edmund Ruthven. Greta comes to the attention of a previous […]

People are strange, when you’re a stranger

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

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The first book in Vivian Shaw’s Dr. Greta Helsing series, Strange Practice, was released in 2017. I’m somewhat surprised that it’s managed to fly under my radar for so long (seriously, how had I never even heard of these books before?), as pretty much immediately after reading the blurb on the back of the book I decided that this was something I wanted to read. Dr. Greta Helsing (a descendant of the famous vampire slayer, the family dropped the ‘Van’ part of the name at […]

Gotta catch ’em all

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

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Last year, I read Rachel Gillig’s The Shepard King duology (consisting of One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns). While I found it somewhat overhyped, I did still enjoy it enough to want to read the author’s future works. The Knight and the Moth, the first in a new series, released last month, so I picked it up. Sybil is a Diviner, a young woman who is serving for 10 years at a cathedral, along with 5 others. The Diviners are referred to by number […]



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