Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Why I can’t finish action manga series most of the time

Jujutsu Kaisen vols 13-15 by Gege Akutami

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Something that annoys me is when action-based stories spend many pages, episodes, or volumes telling a bunch of different sides, parts, or experiences of a fight; it gets boring and I lose track, get bored, or both. Jujustsu Kaisen has gone there. It started a volume or two ago, and volumes 13, 14, and 15 continue the fighting for the same fight. Volume 15 at least contains a hint maybe actual plot or character might be impending. Really the only thing that makes these sequences […]

Other Terrors

Other Terrors by Vince A. Liaguno

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Wow. What a gangbuster list of horror stories. I don’t think I disliked a one of them except for that poem that was like a half a page and just made me go huh. But you all know that most poems I read that are horror (usually written by Stephen King or Neil Gaiman) are like my least favorite things. The first story is shockingly a poem (leave […]

The Furies

The Furies by John Connolly

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Please note that I received this book for NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  Posting some short reviews because I feel like crap also a lot of terrible news has hit and I don’t have the bandwidth. This was pitch perfect John Connolly. I felt like the last few books lost the magic of the earlier Charlie Parker series, but this one (two stories in one book) brings it all back. We get the mystery, horror, science fiction, etc. that makes these […]

Guilty Gore

Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler

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Okay, so we can all agree that Alien is amazing, right? That the xenomorph is a genuinely terrifying creation and something that we’ve all had at least one nightmare about, yes? Good. So imagine you are one of the few human settlements left surviving on a land razed by xenomorphs (or ‘demons’, as you know them to be). You live like insects inside a mountainside, clinging to life by the thinnest of margins. Your settlement sends it’s young and able-bodied to trade essential items with […]

Armpit farts and ghost girls

Hilo Volume Five: Then Everything Went Wrong by Judd Winick

Do You Remember the Summer Before? (Black Sand Beach, #2) by Richard Fairgray

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Sequels are interesting. Sometimes they are better than the first book, and sometimes not even close. And when you get to book five in a series, sometimes you are more excited than you could imagine and other times you are thinking it is time to stop helping my uncle the logger keep his job and save a tree or two. Hilo Volume Five: Then Everything Went Wrong by Judd Winick is a mix of the above. This volume is a “middle of the story” story. […]

And this dude writes CHILDREN’S books!

Curse of the Chosen Volume two: The Will That Shapes the World by Alexis Deacon

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  WHAT THE FLAMING TORCHES DID I JUST READ? I could probably fill an entire review with comments like the one above for Curse of the Chosen Volume two: The Will That Shapes the World. This graphic novel by Alexis Deacon is just that, graphic in imagery and subject. It is not for the faint of heart, to say the least. The theme is a bit on the clichéd side (the weak overcoming the strong, as they come into their own; plus, the battle between […]



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