Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“It was possible she’d been too focused on her need for another cocktail to realize we were witnessing one of the portents of the apocalypse. ”The Luidaeg is singing Disney songs.”

The Brightest Fell (October Daye #11) by Seanan McGuire

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Boy, does this book start out on such a high note and then crash shortly thereafter. I absolutely loved Toby’s “Party With Friends to Celebrate Her Engagement to Tybalt” (I hate both the terms “bachelorette party” and “hen party”) at the local bar, especially when it entails the Luidheag singing Disney at the karoake machine. The music started. I felt the blood run out of my face, leaving me cold. “Oh, oak and ash,” I said. “This isn’t happening.” I wasn’t the only to have […]

I exist as either a small canid with thick fur, pointed ears, and neat black feet, or a young woman. Neither are safe forms in a world run by men.

The Fox Wife by Yangtze Choo

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CBR 17 BINGO: Review (see ElCicco’s 2024 review) BINGO: Review, Purple, I, Red, Borrow When I started seeing reviews for The Fox Wife last year, I was intrigued. It wasn’t until I finally picked up a copy from my library that I realized the author is the same person who wrote The Ghost Bride, which I read and enjoyed back in 2014. Now I was really excited. The Fox Wife is a lovely and heartbreaking novel that borrows from Chinese mythology around foxes. Taking place […]

The One Where the Gang Heads to Scotland

Stone & Sky by Ben Aaronovitch

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I zipped through the Rivers of London series last summer and loved it. Then while browsing through the library I found the newest book 10! A very merry un-birthday to me! Our old friend Peter Grant is no longer the wide-eyed little copper we first met. He’s grown into the Starling, an apprentice of the Nightingale but definitely a power in his own right. He’s still with his lovely wife, the river Beverly, and with the two year time jump since the last novel the […]

“Potatoes,” he said at last, “do not make gods.”

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

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Hemlock & Silver is a solid T. Kingfisher read. It’s a Snow White inspired fairytale, told from an unexpected point of view. There is a mystery to be solved, a helping of body horror, and a little bit of romance. The setting is very different from the world of the Temple of the White Rat, and yet it feels comfortably familiar. You don’t know where you are, but you can trust the storyteller to take you somewhere interesting (complimentary). Anja is called a healer, but […]

“You had a chance to ask the universe for something,” Jamie says. “But instead you chose to register a complaint.”

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders

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Lessons in Magic and Disaster has been so hard to review because my response to it has been deeply personal. It’s an achingly beautiful book. The ache starts in the opening paragraph, Jamie has never known what to say to her mother. And now–when it matters most of all, when she’s on a rescue mission–she knows even less.” Jamie discovered as a child that she could do magic. If she found a spot in nature at the intersection of cultivated and abandoned, and wished for […]

“I was born and raised in San Francisco, which explains my willingness to stay in a city that’s historically been full of people who insist on trying to kill me at the slightest provocation.”

Once Broken Faith (October Daye #10) by Seanan McGuire

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Having survived the events of the last book, Toby decides a relaxing night is in order, or as relaxing of a night one can have hosting a sleepover for a bunch of Fae teenagers. All’s well and good until Arden comes over asking for a favor: the conclave to discuss whether or not the Elf-shot cure Walther invented in the last book is approaching, and High King Aethlin has forbidden the use of the cure until after the decision is made. Arden doesn’t want to […]



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