Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm tired of cancer eating my friends and family. I'm not a scientist, but I'm stubborn and I love books - so I'll be fundraising the sad and powerless right outta my hair.

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OK, I Need to Talk About These Books

Crush by Eve Newton

Destroy by Eve Newton

Reclaim by Eve Newton

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NOTE:  This review will contain spoilers for the overall series – stop reading now if you want to remain unspoiled.  Thumbnail: I won’t tell you to read or not to read these, but take the author’s note/trigger warnings seriously.  If you read them, and worry that something is going to trigger you – it will.  There are no holds barred in these novels, and there is a high level of violence.  Sexual assault is depicted on multiple occasions. Well.  I read all three of these […]

An unexpected gift from my kindle

Beyond the Hawthorne Tree by Caitlyn Wilson

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I have no idea when I purchased this book.  It’s a bit concerning, honestly.  But I was coming off a completely disposable romance novel (look, I respect the crap out of anyone who can and does write a full length novel.  However, I feel like I’ve ready 273,802 almost identical ex-SEAL-runs-security-business books), and wanted something different.  Described as a “A Dark YA Fae Fantasy,” and with a cover that made me think of Graphic Novels, this unexpected gift from my kindle seemed to fit the […]

I was right to kidnap this book.

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

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I kidnapped this book.  I’ve read previous Stevenson books, and enjoyed them, and though I purchased it for my sister for Christmas, when the time came I found myself unable to wrap it or hand it over.  Instead, I did what any sensible sister would do in these circumstances. I had Mr GirlWhoGotOverIt tie the book up in light rope, took a polaroid of it, and, like Tom Hanks in The Burbs (but with more nefarious purpose), wrote a note reading “[Walter]: I have your […]

Local Booksellers Know Best (Part Four)

The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland

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Last year, when I started asking local booksellers to recommend the best thing they’d read that month, Esther Wilding was one of the recommendations I eschewed in order to pick up a YA novel instead (These Hollow Vows; it was a good call at the time).  Instead, we picked this up just after Christmas; we had vouchers, and if it didn’t float our boat, at least it was a freebie. But once again, the bookseller was proven right.  This is sad, and lovely, and I […]

Mum and Nan are going to love this

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

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As the family’s Designated Reader, I usually make a note of who the book is destined for – The Best Niece in Australia gets the quality YA, my brother gets most Fantasy, and anything involving violent death and appropriate comeuppance has Mum and Nan written all over it. Everyone in Five Survive is off to Spring Break – though they’re high school students, this falls somewhere between YA and New Adult.  Red and Maya, best friends forever, Maya’s older brother and his girlfriend, their long […]

The Interwebs were correct – these books are great

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna

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Once again, I have done as told by the Interwebs, but failed to record which website recommended it.  This was either Vulture or Pajiba, I’d wager.  What an excellent recommendation.  It should be required reading for my whole family (but they never do as they’re told). We meet Deka in the Gilded Ones on the day of her purity test – when all of-age girls are bled to make sure they bleed red, not gold.  If this sounds like some solid gold bullshit to you, […]



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