Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A perfect draw that’s enticed me to read the first novel

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

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This is such an interesting place to start this series! It was very obviously written prior to the publication of the first true “novel” in the series (A Master of Djinn) but very much feels like the sort of novella you read after you’ve finished the main book and are just desperate for more content in the same universe. A number of my friends enjoyed The Daevabad Trilogy, but I unfortunately found the first book lacking some of that ‘draw’ that makes you want to quickly read […]

Finally figured out which book I forgot to review!

Black Star by Eric Glover

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THIS is the review I was missing, it was driving me to distraction. This was a short, punchy graphic novel which had some debut roughness but was still super enjoyable for reasons that probably apply more to me. The story is set on a (very) hostile planet, which happens to be the source for a plant which can be distilled into a cure for cancer. A floral MacGuffin, if you will, to create tension and a reason for the characters to want to make it […]

You don’t need to remember very much of The Great Gatsby to appreciate retellings

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

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So here’s the thing: I’m not like, super into The Great Gatsby. I read it in school, and like everyone else I’ve gone to a thousand Great Gatsby parties (hopefully we’re all done with them still, because otherwise the thematic appropriateness means we’ll be flappering well into the mid-20s). But from what I remember, this book nails the overall ~*mood*~ of the book, which I feel is best summarized by one of my favorite words: insouciance. Everyone is always bright and fragile and brittle and shiny […]

Turns out I need *some* plot (not very much though)

The Sea Witch by Katee Robert

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Katee Robert is clearly a master of writing sexy sex times, but reading this novel after reading Neon Gods makes me realize that it’s not (always) enough to have PWP–you also need to have characters and stakes that you can get behind. While I get the outlines of the loose retelling of The Little Mermaid featuring Ursa (Ursula), Alaric (Eric), and Zurielle (Ariel) in a FFM D/s/s, I’m not quite sure that this fully fits into the Thirteen Gods of Olympus universe that Neon Gods takes place in, even […]

Not at all the book I was expecting but that’s my fault (and a thing I have done before)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

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Pride continueth! What I thought this book was about and what it is about are two very different things! And not in a bad way, just in a “oh that’s not what I was expecting!” type of way. Kit reminds me of Katherine from The Witch of Blackbird Pond, so I though that Kit Webb was a female character, but since this has “Queer” in the cover I assumed that the other blonde one on the cover was also female and they were both either androgynous or dressing […]

Only nineteen pages but I’ll take every last one

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells

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This actually ended up being my 100th reading challenge book, as it were. And I’m counting this as Pride!Reading as well–Murderbot is aro ace and non-binary, innit? FINALLY got my hands on this book, I have never bought something so quickly based on an email. I will read anything from the Murderbot universe, and basically live in misery that these stories aren’t longer T-T Here, for the first time, we’re seeing things from the perspective of Dr. Mensah, fresh off of her kidnap rescue in Exit […]



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