Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

So so happy that this group pushed me to finally finish this series!

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

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Will finally write the review for this book! I didn’t want to for so long–I didn’t want to let this one go. Narfna, you were right so many times over. Someone asked if this book resolved everything, or if it was frustrating and unresolved at the end like The Well of Ascension. I mean, of course a second book in a trilogy will be unresolved! One thing a friend told me, though, makes perfect sense–Sanderson is a reader’s writer, in that he loves reading and knows […]

The Wheel of Time: Book 13 (review IX): I’m honestly too tired to string three thoughts together. This is my speed round review!

Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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Years ago, I had a brief but memorable relationship with a woman. It ended fairly amicably. Some years later we reconnected, and I was initially reminded of the good times. All those memories came flooding back, and it was exciting catching up on the years we’d been apart. And then, flushed with the realization that we ended it for a reason, I remembered how little I actually liked her. The wind was completely removed from my sails, and I limped back to safer waters. This […]

“There isn’t much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.”

The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4; Wax and Wayne, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

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I basically just want to jump right into books two and three immediately but I will wait. Lowering this half a star this time around in acknowledgement that the next two take what’s good here and make it even better. I obviously hadn’t read those yet when I read this the first time! And I don’t want to subtract a whole star from this, because I just love this world and characters so much. In retrospect, I can’t imagine this series not going any further, […]

So excited for Book 3!

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

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You guys don’t know just how behind in reviews, because I keep prioritizing reviewing the bingo ones, but I’ve had a hard time getting into those last few books and have read an amazing few books in between (and some not so amazing ones as well). I only have one prompt left on my Bingo card, which is “Libations”, and I have officially given up on this one so I guess it’s my turn to use the “Reader’s Choice” square to fill that one – […]

“I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.”

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

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Still a great ending to this series. This was one of the best endings to a book series I’d ever read back in 2013, and it’s still in that category eight years later. It’s an ending that is so good it single handedly elevates everything that came before it, which was already pretty damn good to start with. It’s one of those endings that makes so much sense in retrospect but is almost impossible to predict. Sanderson expertly sets your expectations throughout the whole trilogy […]

White Whale Finally Caught (there’s another right behind it)

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

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White Whale: My brother has been telling me to read these books for two years now! THIS was actually the last book I had on my backlog of reviews, I swear, and it’s not even in the backlog–I just finished it! This definitely gets categorized on the (one of many) white whale novels shelf, because I read the first book over two years ago on the advice of my brother, and then promptly decided since I didn’t need to read the next one right away (no obvious […]



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