Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Flying, Glow-in-the-Dark Dinosaur in the Modern Day

Umboi Island by JJ Dupuis

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Laura is the host of Creature X, a cryptozoology show, despite being an avowed skeptic. In search of the Ropen, she and her team go to a remote island in Papua New Guinea, where they become entangled in a mystery when a dead man is found in one of their tents. Though billed a mystery, this is more of a good old-fashioned action-adventure novel, complete with martial arts, gun fights, and a far-off setting. What sets this book above many other old-fashioned action-adventure novel is […]

A Childhood Favorite Becomes a Complicated Re-Read As An Adult.

Tintin Volumes 3-23 by Hergé

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This is another review where I’m unable to be unbiased because these are the ultimate nostalgia reads for me. I read these obsessively until the covers fell off when I was little. It had been a long time (15 years +) since I’d revisited them, so I asked for the complete set for Christmas to round out my library. I got the full-sized albums, not the ones where they jammed four volumes into half-sized books. Hergé’s art is worth reading at full size so you […]

A trope to get rid of and maybe some more worldbuilding to add

Burn the Witch vol. 1 by Tite Kubo

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I already knew the story going into Burn the Witch (vol.1); the graphic novel is an adaptation of a limited episode series, and they match pretty closely. What I don’t quite get is the title; there aren’t really any witches. There are people with special powers but it’s not really magic exactly in that there is no real system explained and those who are licensed aren’t vilified. The concept is partially familiar: there is a mirror world to our own in which dragons are real, […]

Back the beginning in the underworld

Yuyu Hakusho vol 1 by Yoshihiro Togashi

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Bingo 10 Old Series Before getting to the review a little context: late 2006 or early 2007 I picked up a copy of Shonen Jump magazine (back when it still existed as a print thing one could buy in the grocery store), and eventually I bought it, and then subscribed. One of the series currently running around that time was Yuyu Hakusho; it was about ¾ of the way complete, and I read through the end of the serial publication of this series. I don’t […]

Murderbot is back and hosin’ hostiles once again, baybee

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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Murderbot, my misanthropic friend! Welcome back- back to the PAST! There had been a lot of scuttlebutt floating around telling us that this would be a novella (hooray- I think the novel format dragged the last entry down), and that it would be a prequel. Hmmm. A prequel? Right after a satisfying promise of adventures with returning beloved characters? Booo! Once again, I stand by eating my big ol’ helping of crow pie while Martha Wells proves, once again, that I should trust the author […]

“Bind your fate to mine”

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

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Official book description: Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals, hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality.   Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world in the wake of her family’s sadistic murder by a rival line, turning her back on the hunt’s promises of eternal glory. For years she’s pushed away any thought of […]



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