Cannonball Read 17 – Page 6854

A girl is called to save a snow-covered magical kingdom populated by animals – no, it’s not Narnia, why do you ask?

January 24, 2014 by Malin 1 Comment

Eleven-year-old Lindelin "Lin" Rosenquist is mourning the death of her pet vole, Rufus, and miserable in her new home away from her best friend and childhood haunts. One dark evening, she receives a mysterious package labelled "Twistrose" with a rose-shaped key inside. She discovers that the key … [Read more]

Malin's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, adventure, fantasy, Malin, middle grade, The Twistrose Key, Tone Almhjell ·

The one where Harry tries to catch a serial killer and fights a lot of ghouls

January 24, 2014 by Malin Leave a Comment

Chicago wizard and now a Warden of the White Council, Harry Dresden, gets called in by his friend Sgt. Karrin Murphy (she got demoted after helping Harry out in the last book) to look into a series of mysterious deaths. A lot of women have been found dead around Chicago, in what appears at first … [Read more]

Malin's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: #CBR6, Audible, Jim Butcher, Malin, paranormal fantasy, the Dresden Files, vampires, White Night, witches ·

I Pledge Allegiants

January 24, 2014 by Marc 2 Comments

The now standard (twice is a standard, right?) disclaimer applies: as this is review of the third book in a trilogy, I'll probably be talking about the first two. "Divergent is the next big thing in YA fiction!" they told me. "Go read something with another kickass female protagonist once you're … [Read more]

Marc's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Allegiant, Divergent, Veronica Roth ·

Could the world end like this?

January 24, 2014 by reginadelmar 1 Comment

The Year of the Flood takes place some time in the future, some would argue not very long into the future, and humans are in deep trouble. Sea levels have risen, humans are just holding on and genetically spliced Frankenstein species roam the earth. The story is connected to Atwood’s 1993 book Oryx … [Read more]

reginadelmar's CBR6 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Atwood, Speculative Fiction ·

Yep, that’s a lot of pages…

January 24, 2014 by jirali 3 Comments

I'm not quite sure what I was thinking when I chose a 1300+ page book as my first Cannonball Read selection. … [Read more]

jirali's CBR6 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction ·

The Secret History – except the secret’s not quite worth the effort

January 23, 2014 by Jen K 2 Comments

I've heard about this novel quite a few times, and have had it on my "I should get around to that" list for a while but somehow, while I knew the novel existed, my idea of what it was about was completely off. Maybe it was the title but I think I was expecting something along the lines of secret … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR6 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Donna Tartt ·

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