Audiobooks – Page 133 – Cannonball Read 17

Unfortunately, this one was just meh for me.

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

November 22, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I actually don’t have too much to say about this one because it didn’t really hit for me. I’m not really sure why, because I’ve liked everything else P. Djèlí Clark has written (Ring Shout was the last thing of his I hadn’t yet read). And I mean, I didn’t not like it, but it’s never really a good sign when your reader is liking your world-building and the alternate history aspects of your story more than your actual story, and more than the characters. […]

A five star trilogy.

Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man, #3) by Robin Hobb

November 17, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I can’t even tell you how glad I am that I gave Robin Hobb’s books another chance. It was totally worth it just for this trilogy alone. I don’t even know if I’ve had a turnaround this notable on a fictional character before. After I finished the first Fitz trilogy, I thought I was done, that her writing was not for me, and that Fitz’s story was definitely one that just didn’t resonate with me. And then on a whim years later I decided to […]

Life has thrown a lot at me recently, so here are all the reviews I forgot to write!

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Miraculous by Jess Redman

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O'Neill

An Exchange of Gifts by Anne McCaffrey

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

The Sandman: Act I by Neil Gaiman

The Princess Spy by Larry Loftis

October 31, 2021 by crystalclear 2 Comments

The Bear and the Nightingale By Katherine Arden (Warning – the review of this book contains f-bombs!) I know this was supposed to be based on a fairy tale, and some parts seemed very fairy tale-like (especially the story the nanny told toward the beginning with the girls in the snow) but I did not correlate them to any story I already knew. I appreciated the involvement of the Russian household spirits, and how the village did quite well combining their religion and their culture […]

If you thought they couldn’t reboot a book, you were wrong!

Super Powereds: Year One by Drew Hayes

October 31, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Super Powereds: Year One By Drew Hayes So, Drew Hayes is my favorite author. My favorite series of his is his Super Powereds series (which I’ve reviewed twice already for Cannonball!) I am in love with Kyle McCarley as an audiobook reader (and I even follow him on Twitch to support him and to hear him talk!) So when I saw that they were rerecording the audiobooks, I was taken aback. Why mess with perfection? Kyle McCarley’s voices were the voices of the characters! How […]

What if you could blame everything bad on someone else?

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

October 31, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow By Jessica Townsend Morrigan Crow has the dubious distinction of being a Cursed Child (no, not the same one from the play.) When a child is born on Eventide, they are said to be cursed, and are doomed to die on their eleventh birthday. Everything bad that happens, be it a lost spelling bee or a spoiled batch of marmalade, is blamed on the local cursed child. Morrigan’s father, a government official, sits down periodically with her and […]

Two books about fat girls

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

October 31, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Dumplin’ By Julie Murphy I’ve been meaning to read Dumplin’ for a while. As a fat girl myself, it only seemed appropriate to read about another fat girl joining a beauty pageant. But the story is so much more than that! Willowdean Dixon is the daughter of a former Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant winner, one who never really left the pageant behind. Willowdean’s mother runs the pageant every year, turning their lives into a pageant hurricane zone. But it never really bothered […]

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