Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You will be safe as long as you stay away from Gallant”

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

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Victoria Schwab: “One of the tricky things about my books is that they’re never written for the same reader.  It’s a choice I made, and I stand by, but it also means that someone is invariably disappointed.  They might love Shades of Magic, but Vicious doesn’t work for them. They might adore Addie LaRue, but feel let down by Gallant.  The found themselves in the center of the reader spot light with one of my books, and then at the edges with another.  Some days […]

Elegantly written Edwardian fantasy, murder mystery, gay romance

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

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First of all, Thank you, again, llamareadbooks for gifting me this book in the Cannonball Book Exchange!  A book that combines several genres I enjoy was almost guaranteed to be a hit but it is the beautiful writing that makes this such a wonderful read. You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips.  You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house.  I’d like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you to stop talking about […]

Action adventure in space with queer representation!

The Disasters by M. K. England

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I missed out when The Disasters was the Cannonball Book Club pick but have finally made up for lost time.  This book immediately kick into high gear and doesn’t stop until the conclusion.  Science fiction is a favorite genre of mine and this was so fun, as well as refreshing with the LGBTQ+ representation. All Nax has ever wanted was to be a pilot.  The best way to do so is to become a cadet in the Space Academy and then migrate to the off Earth […]

And so the adventure begins!

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins by Matthew Colville, Matthew Mercer, Olivia Samson (artist)

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Our household is BIG into Dungeons and Dragons (DnD).  My SO and I met at a LARP (live action roleplaying event) and we now play DnD with our kids.  When Critical Role (a DnD game run by voice actor Matthew Mercer and all the characters are also voice actors) debuted on YouTube we gave it a try and passed.  We weren’t interested in listening to other people play DnD.  In the years since Critical Role has blown up.  They are now on their third adventure […]

“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.” – Gustave Le Bon

The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

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1,474 pages later and Joe Abercrombie’s ‘Age of Madness’ trilogy has come to a close in The Wisdom of Crowds.  Together they are a masterpiece in epic storytelling taking a slice of the Circle of the World from unhappy but with relative stability, through the madness of war and rebellion, to a new society tentatively hopeful that the change wrought has been worth the destruction and bloodshed. At the start of the The Wisdom of Crowds, the Union and North have already been through the quite […]

The Trouble with Peace is discontent, greed, and ambition

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

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The Trouble with Peace is the second book in Joe Abercrombie’s “Age of Madness” trilogy.  Here is my review for the first book, A Little Hatred .  Following immediately on the heels of events in the fist book, an uneasy peace has been established.  The Union crushed the rebellion in Valbek and the war in the North was brought to an end.  However, hardly anyone is happy about how things turned out. Despite two hundred hangings, the appetite for workers’ rights has only increased and other […]



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