Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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40-something psychologist living with a husband, toddler, and 2 cats.

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An Early Work by Dostoevsky

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If you’re interested in reading classic literature, this is a good one to start with. Clocking in at under 70 pages (as least according to my Kindle), this novella is told as the diary of an unnamed narrator recounting a few nights with a young woman in Petersburg. Our narrator meets Nastenka on a street one night after rescuing her from a man who was accosting her. He had previously observed her on the bank of a river and noticed her crying, but she ran […]

A Dark Academia Masterpiece

Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

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I literally just finished reading this, and wow — what a compelling read! I learned from reading Wang’s first book, Sword of Kaigen, that she is not afraid to do terrible things to her characters or to break your heart without fully mending it, and she does that again here. This dark academia novel primarily follows Sciona, who early in the novel becomes the first female High Mage of the city of Tiran. There’s a lot of sexism in this world and she is not […]

A Highly Engaging Duology

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

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One Dark Window I have seen and heard multiple people express that the sequel to One Dark Window is even better than One Dark Window, in which case the sequel is just going to blow me away because I thought this book was so good in itself. The book is set in the kingdom of Blunder, which is beset by a magical mist that is expanding year by year. Main character Elspeth was infected by the mist as a child and has to hide the […]

A Cozy Story About “Exotic Bean Water”

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

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This was just what I needed given the stress I’ve been feeling lately, and I wish I hadn’t waited so long to read it. It was such a cozy read that I almost teared up at how comforting it is. The story focuses on Viv, whose 3rd person perspective we get, as she sets about opening up a coffee shop in the city of Thune, a city whose residents have never heard of coffee. She was previously a mercenary but doesn’t want to die in […]

Funny, Charming, and Bittersweet

Nimona by ND Stevenson

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I’m so glad I’ve started getting more into graphic novels because Nimona, by transmasculine author ND Stevenson, is excellent. Titular character Nimona arrives at the lair of Ballister Blackheart to announce (not ask) that she’s his new sidekick. While he is initially inclined to reject this proposal, he changes his mind upon discovering that she is a shapeshifter. Ballister is a supervillain with a strong moral code who doesn’t want to kill anyone, especially innocent people. Nimona has no such compunction, and it’s entertaining to […]

A Disappointing End to the Trilogy

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi

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Children of Virtue and Vengeance Although the blurb on this book primarily references Zélie, Amari’s POV seems to be in this novel at least as much as Zélie’s, certainly more so than in the first book. She’s an important part of the novel and also a frustrating one. There is a lot of repetition of characters’ thoughts and behaviors in this book. Set a few weeks after the events of the last book, civil war has essentially broken out. Zélie’s ritual didn’t just return magic […]



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