Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Medoran Chronicles

Akarnae by Lynette Noni

Raelia by Lynette Noni

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A new-to-me series by The Prison Healer author Lynette Noni, so far the Medoran Chronicles are pretty bloody consuming.  The Best Niece in Australia has told me at leas 753,802 times that I’ve already read Akarnae, which turns out to be a bald-faced lie… I would have remembered these. They’re purely YA, so if you’re interested in something that straddles that line, look elsewhere.  The leads are 15-16, and the setting is a school.  So we are looking at that age where they are old […]

Thank you Moira Quirk–I would not have discovered this book without you.

The Councillor by E.J. Beaton

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Okay I’m going to end the year with a book I mostly purchased because of who narrates the audiobook. This is some somewhat Machiavellian fantasy. With a scholar in a central role. For anyone who enjoys the politicking in George R R Martin’s books or perhaps The Priory of the Orange Tree, this might be for you. The Councillor starts off with a death. The Iron Queen Sarelin Brey has been murdered, and the question of her successor has not been left up to the […]

Disrupted Dreams And Cat Angst

Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire

The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire

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So it’s the day before New Year’s Eve and I have a cold so maybe I will hit my Cannonball anyhow Every year since I first started about five years ago I have endeavoured to review the latest in the October Day series, so I was shocked when I realised I hadn’t managed to do it this year. And this year is a bit of an unusual one because Seanan McGuire didn’t put out just one October Day book, but two. The question is though, […]

Three audiobooks narrated excellently by Kate Reading

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas

A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas

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The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter – Theodora Goss Rating: 3 stars Mary Jekyll finds herself orphaned and nearly destitute. Most of the servants have to be let go, and she’s sold off most of what’s valuable around the house. She hopes she can get some money by tracking down Edward Hyde, her father’s infamous friend, but instead finds a young woman, Diana, who is apparently Hyde’s daughter. The girl was raised by nuns, with monthly financial support from Mary’s mother. Diana refuses to […]

More books I read this summer and am only reviewing now to make it to 104

Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire

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Cassiel’s Servant – Jacqueline Carey Rating: 3.5 stars Kushiel’s Dart is one of my favourite fantasy books, and books in general, of all time. It stands up, I re-read it this summer in preparation for the release of this. Has Jacqueline Carey done exactly the same thing as Stephenie Meyer and E.L James did, and retold her already existing novel from the POV of another central character? Yes, she has. Was I pretty sure that this was going to be a lot more worthwhile and […]

Wait! Is that Heather on the Hills?

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

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The plotline was a little convoluted at times, but I will forgive a lot for a brilliant premise, and boy, did this book have one. So there was a mapmaker, General Drafting Corporation, which started some of the first road maps of New York State back at the beginning of travel by auto (i.e., prior to Triple A).  They were generally cheap, purchased at the gas stations that were just coming into being, and were very carefully and meticulously researched.  Before long, other larger firms […]



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