Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

When fan fics get old

My Hero Academia: Team Up Missions 2 by Yoko Akiyama

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Sometimes with popular series, when the author starts branching out into side series’, it can get a little overdone. My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions started out what felt like the fan fics they basically are but entertaining. This does mean you need to know at least something of he main series; in this case, I do. Volume 2 of the Team-Up Missions spin-off continues that effect but it’s not nearly as entertaining. Why? Because the scenarios and combinations just aren’t all that interesting, and in […]

Find your way to this book come April 2022

Mapmakers and the Lost Magic (A Graphic Novel) by Cameron Chittock

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Mapmakers and the Lost Magic (A Graphic Novel) is an odd little story. At first it seemed like Cameron Chittock was creating it to be straightforward: Alidade, a young girl of the village, wants to leave. You assume that she will learn “there is no place like home” but it quickly takes a turn for the slightly darker. There are the guards that stop anyone from leaving the village, they curb individuality, and are controlled by a woman who (due to illustrations placing her in […]

Little Sister has punch

Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters volume 1 by Chris Samnee

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I was going to include Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters volume 1 with Barb the Last Berzerker not because they are by the same author(s) and/or illustrator(s), or even because they had similar themes. Now, they do both have a wild child (Barb in one and Jonna in the other), but their paths are radically different. One is on a journey to stop an evil wizard and likes to have a chat or two, the other hits first, second, last and does not talk much […]

I borrowed the cat for the photo

Championess by Tarun Shanker

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I have wanted to read Championess by Tarun Shanker for a bit now, but things kept getting in the way from actually reading. But about a week ago (as of September 15, 2021) I found a copy. Shanker’s book was an amazing piece of history, a great story of sisters, and even had a little romance. Based on Elizabeth Wilkinson, a bare-knuckled boxer, I was excited to learn of the down and dirty, nasty, corrupt, ugly world of boxing in the 1700’s. The story of […]

There’s a lot to learn and the clock is ticking

Rabbits by Terry Miles

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Before starting Rabbits by Terry Miles, I thought I would be able to answer the question what this book was about. I knew there had to be more than a cute, almost rainbow, bunny on the cover. But, once finished, I still did not have a clue what had taken me a little less than two weeks to read was about. The main character is K, (yes short for something, but they are not telling). K and their friends are old-school gamers (their arcade with […]

Abracadabra and Up Up and Away to adventure!

Cat & Cat V01 Adventures The Quest for Snacks by Susie Yi

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cbr13bingo Travel (they travel to a magical world and I’d like to see a mermaid-cat, a fairy bunny and a lava dog!) “Dear Representative of this particular company. Would you be so kind as to send me these three reader copies of these books? Of course, if you cannot I would prefer book X as my first choice.” Or something like that was the email I sent to a rep of a publisher. I had asked for three books. And Cat & Cat V01 Adventures […]



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