Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Strong Start To the Second Arc of the Series

Prince and Bodyguard by Tavia Lark

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A failed rebellion in his home province led Vana Dire to be sent to Draskora to be adopted by the king years ago.  He’s managed to survive the cutthroat royal court by not showing weakness and relying on his magic bound bodyguard, Daromir, who both shares his pain and always knows where Vana is through their bond.  They’ve been together since Vana left Kaiskara, and he’s the one person Vana always knows he can count on.  Which is part of why Vana keeps the fact […]

A Satisfying End To a Great Fantasy Series

Daindreth's Empress by Elisabeth Wheatley

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As Daindreth and Amira start running the empire, the threat of the cythual still must be dealt with.  As Vesha makes her way to the place where she can bring Moreyne into the human world, Amira and Daindreth move to stop her, unaware of both the full depth of her plans and the fact that they’re in a race against the clock to keep the goddess from crossing over from the Dread Marches and taking control of the human world. So, let get the negative […]

If stealing from dragons is bad, what about stealing for them?

Never Steal from Dragons by Patrick Dugan

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Never Steal From Dragons is a fun cozy sci-fi/fantasy heist adventure. A lot of the expected tropes are present: a group of very highly skilled but very different individuals are forcibly assembled by a mysterious powerful individual who wants them to steal something in return for basically making their dreams come true; it is of course an offer that cannot be refused. Chaos, clever remarks, etc. ensues. In the world of Harmony, there are any number of beings recognizable from folklore including pixies, dragons, kitsune, […]

The Two Towers: Pippin is just a stand-in for Tolkien’s son right?

The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

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I’m back from my second visit to OG Middle Earth and I have thoughts. Remember, you brought this on yourselves. I remember noticing a difference in Star Trek once Roddenberry was no longer involved. He was really hung up on the idea that there can’t ever be conflict among the crew, because in his perfect future, we’ve literally grown out of interpersonal conflict. And it was *boring* because it didn’t make sense. Even in a perfect world, it is impossible for there never to be […]

Do you know the gingerbread man?

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

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I need to start this off by saying this book was perfect to me. Well, almost perfect, but I’m giving it a five-star review because the good outweighed my little nitpicks, and it felt like it was written directly to appeal to me. However, before I start raving about the parts of this book that just made my heart sing, I want to flag that I have read other books by T. Kingfisher, and those were for adults and a little more creepy than this […]

The Snail, the Pumpkin and the Squash

Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa

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Three gorgeously illustrated, feminist-twist folktales, myths, stories are included in Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa (Clar pronounced like Clark without the k) based their stories on the ones of their childhood, adding what might not seem at first “girl power” but will become that, to each one. There are some mature themes (the giant wants to eat the girl, the father is abusive to his daughters, a village thinks that a woman who is single with no children is odd and tells her […]



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