Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It Will Only Hurt for a Moment

It Will Only Hurt for a Moment by Delilah S. Dawson

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I read this after seeing Delilah Dawson speak at ComicCon. She was amazing. Told heartfelt stories, was entertaining, and gave sincere answers to audience questions about the craft. The book she was plugging, It Will Only Hurt for a Moment, is set at an artist’s retreat where our protagonist, while digging a pit kiln, uncovers a coffin where someone was buried alive. Shit ensues. This was a hard book to read, and I mean that with maximal praise. The writing was excellent and effective, the characters […]

It’s Brutal Out Here (Or “Saw for rich people”)

Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

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This book contains a list of trigger warnings at the start, and the author notes that she experienced childhood sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking and rape.  And that she writes through the lens of survivors’ rage.  And yes.  This book is full of rage, I really can not stress enough that this is an angry book.   Dez Lane is not rich.  She has dreams and wants to make her mark in the fashion world but her lack of capital is hindering her. She just needs […]

Not as funny as it thinks it is, but not terrible, either.

Kill the Farm Boy (The Tales of Pell, #1) by Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson

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I was hoping to like this a lot more than I did. And because I’m probably going to Review Amnesty the third book in this series, which I read in November for a book club meeting I didn’t end up attending, this review will also touch on that one a little and the series as a whole. Which is not as funny as it thinks it is. I like the idea of taking traditional fantasy tropes and structuring a book so as to poke fun […]

When Fairies want your head and you just want to go home

Sparrowhawk (Books 1 to 5) by Delilah S. Dawson

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If Alice in Wonderland and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Fight Club and One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest got together, this might be the results. Sparrowhawk (Books 1 to 5) is one “wild, crazy, disturbing, odd, funny, brightly light and dark all at once, and our train is flying off the tracks” ride. Delilah S. Dawson (even their name is beautiful and mysterious and slightly creepy) created a modern Alice in Wonderland, where “Alice” grows wings, uses a big a$$ swords, kills monsters and […]

Superficially, it’s a comedy fantasy with pirates and otters but underneath is so much more

The Princess Beard by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

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The Princess Beard is the third book in Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne’s “Tales of Pell” series.  Once again they have me nearly doubled over with laughter while also appreciating their pro LGBTQ+, feminist, socially conscious agenda and sly pokes at the establishment.  Each of the three books this duo have written together can stand alone and be read individually.  However, the world is much richer if you have read the other books.  And as they are hysterically funny, I highly suggest reading all […]

Just as hilarious as the first outing by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

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Last year Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne released, and I reviewed, Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell.  It was a hysterical twisting of fantasy tropes that had my husband and I literally laughing out loud while reading.  This year they put out another book set in Pell, No Country for Old Gnomes.  The nifty thing about these two books is they are standalone.  You do not need to have read Kill the Farm Boy to read No Country for Old Gnomes, this is not […]



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