The sheer scope of this series alone is enough to be breathtaking.  Sanderson has proposed it would be a trilogy of trilogies, the first of the Mistborn trilogies taking place in a medieval world where people have elemental based magic like Avatar or Butcher’s Codex Alera series.  Then, he cranked out The Alloy of Law which takes place years later in a sort of 1880’s frontier era but with the same magic.  It was only supposed to be one book, but he decided I’ll write a […]

Writing under her crime-mystery alias, JK Rowling delivers yet another spectacular Cormoran Strike mystery.  Much like the Cumberbatch/Freeman iteration of Sherlock, while the mystery’s good, it’s the interaction between Strike and his secretary/partner Robin that makes the story so enticing. The investigation and interaction blend spectacularly, and especially with the conclusion, I eagerly await the next book.

Once again, I let the strange haunting web of The Familiar entangle me.  Always 800+ pages in length, this story weaves itself like Cloud Atlas or the Netflix series Sense8.  Strange and wonderful and confusing as hell, I get excited watching these nine seemingly disparate story threads slowly, glacially coalesce.  Any time there’s a brief connection, I thrill.  And with TWENTY-FOUR more volumes ahead, I’m ready for the next one.  Even if I have to wait until summer 2016.

Am I reviewing my own book?  I am!  I don’t know if I’m the first Cannonballer to also write a book while completing a cannonball, but so be it!  This collection puts together the first three of my splatterpunk novelettes: Boogeymen, Boogeymen 2: Creature Feature, and Boogeymen 3: Mischief Night.  They’re fun little gorefests, each getting progressively bloodier, and chockful of pop culture riffing.  Soon to be in paperback form!

Read that title.  Let that soak in.  How do you not read a book about vigilante poets?  From my title, you might think I didn’t care for it. But actually, it reminded me of my own writing.  Sassy dialogue and zinging characters.  It’s a hell of a fun book, if it kind of falls apart for me under its own hubris in the latter part.  But if you’re a grammar nerd who digs fun YA lit, by god, give it a gander.  You’ll probably enjoy […]

Pratchett gets political in his later books.  And while it might seem like I’m making light of the blacklivesmatter movement, I assure you I’m not.  The treatment of the goblins and the class warfare prevalent throughout is very timely.  Goblins aren’t being treated like people, they’re being abused and no one cares because they are filthy criminals.  I mean, I don’t have to spell it out for you.  But this one had me particularly sad because now I’m feeling the loss of future Discworld novels.