Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Things Are Really Beginning to Take Shape

The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima

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Raisa has managed to make it back to the Fellsmarch, but her troubles aren’t over.  In fact, they seem to have multiplied.  Her mother has died, possibly murdered, and there are those who are trying to put her thirteen year old sister on the throne.  Plus the various factions that do support her have some different ideas of how they should proceed.  Throw in the fact that Han now knows her true identity and feels betrayed by her, Raisa has her hands full keeping herself […]

Going Through Hell

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

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Alice Law and Peter Murdoch are graduate students studying Magick at Cambridge University. They are both being advised by the star of the department, Jacob Grimes, a professor they fear and worship in roughly equal measures. Desperate to secure a rare job placement in academia, they would do anything for Grimes, including, as it turns out, taking a literal trip to Hell for him. When a seemingly routine Magick trick goes wrong and sends their advisor to the afterlife, Alice and Peter are each determined […]

GBBO Romantasy Meringue

A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner

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Bingo 15 :White Notice the color of the title text? And few splashes of said color elsewhere? Ok then. However, if you want to be more creative about it, white is often represented as the absence of color, which could be argued to be a metaphor for the total absence of substance in this novel. So, there’s that too. Now to be absolutely clear, the absence of substance is exactly what I needed when I picked this up. I needed a palate cleasner from something […]

“I am given no voice in decisions or plans!” but she wants one

Elusive by Genevieve Cogman

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Bingo 14: Citizen Elusive is part 2 of a trilogy that re-imagines some things about the French Revolution. It’s definitely fiction, but given the historical context of citizens trying to take back power from the elite which is a theme in the novel in more ways than one, I argue this counts. A major part of the fiction is the addition of the (former?) maid Eleanor to the Scarlet Pimpernel and his crew, and the addition of vampires (Marie Antoinette might still be around in […]

I guess I’m rooting for the serial killer

Murder for the Modern Girl by Kendall Kulper

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CBR17Bingo: “Borrow” – because I borrowed it from the library. Murder for the Modern Girl (2022) by Kendall Kulper is another book I picked up after it was recommended to me by someone in my local book club. I thought it was original and unique. It was a quick read and kept my interest. Although there are fantastical elements to a couple of the characters in this book, the story still felt grounded. In fact, the fantastical elements really made the characters more interesting, and they […]

“Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.”

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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Bingo: I am counting this book for the “Green” square. Tress is a simple window washer who lives on a rock in the middle of an ocean of deadly spores. She is content baking culinary masterpieces, adding to her cup collection and spending time with her best friend Charlie. When Charlie is captured by the Sorceress across the Midnight Sea. In order to rescue the man she loves, Tress must leave her quiet life behind for one of adventure and peril. As she journeys across […]



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