Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Heist, But Make It Revolution

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

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Let’s set the scene: a dystopian world, where ash falls from the sky daily and the nights are full of thick mist and strange creatures. Society is divided into two castes who do not overlap: the nobility and the peasant skaa. Nobles have almost absolute power over the skaa that live and work on their land, and abuse that power frequently. Skaa live in beaten-down fear and despair, sure that nothing will ever change. And why are they so sure? Because the person who leads […]

A wise man once said, “Any story, no matter how good, will sound really, really dumb when you shorten it to a few sentences.”

The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

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Alcatraz Smedry (anti)hero of the series, finally makes it the Free Kingdoms, a place safe from the clutches of the evil Librarians. Once there, he discovers that against all common sense, the rulers of the Free Kingdoms are planning a treaty with the Librarians, one of which happens to be his mother. Alcatraz and his intrepid family, friends, and random people newly introduced, must thwart the treaty, uncover a traitor in their midst, and figure out why Alcatraz’s father is completely unlikable. Can they do […]

A very sweet adventure story, gorgeously packaged

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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4.5 stars Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Celestial (there is a big moon and several stars on the cover) What if in The Princess Bride, Buttercup didn’t sit at home and mourn for Westley when he was captured by pirates, but instead went off to try to rescue him? Of course, that would mean Buttercup had any agency at all in either the novel or the film, and she really doesn’t. But if Buttercup was a young woman named Tress, from a barren and fairly desolate […]

“But in his experience, being bad with names was like being bad with swords. Most people could learn if they tried hard enough.”

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

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original hot take Okay fine I’ll give it a 5 although I have to go back and rebase across the works. In other news, 3am reading indicates lessons of adulthood never learned. Longer review I don’t think this actually is a five star for me, I think if I had to go back and think through the books it would be: Way of Kings 4* Words of Radiance 5* Oathbringer 4* Rhythm of War 5* Wind and Truth 4* There’s too much that went on in this […]

“What, other than a person, could you build up merely by caring?”

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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Hey look, I read my very first Brandon Sanderson book! Even better, I really liked it. Very nearly 5-star loved it.   I have been intrigued by the writings of Brandon Sanderson for years, it’s hard to be a Cannonballer and not see many of the people whose opinions you generally agree with, and trust have incredibly complementary things to say about it. But the kind of massive, high fantasy volumes that Sanderson is infamous for have never been my thing. But then I kept […]

“You should tell her, the knight interjects, that is basically the entire point of math. Explaining stuff everyone already knows.”

The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson

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Original review: NOW IT IS TIME FOR WIND AND TRUTH (but I have another two weeks to wait) Updated long review: First off, I had a whole thing written and it got lost on Goodreads, how bizarre. Doesn’t it save automatically? So well to quickly recap (and I won’t give away who the main character/Nomad is until later on, if you want to avoid): – it’s funny how there’s SO MUCH plot crammed into these small novels between the giant paving stones (and really, they […]



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