Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you ever wanted a dragon for a pet, read this first

You Don’t Want a Dragon! by Ame Dyckman

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Did no one learn about exotic pets from You Don’t Want a Unicorn? Guess not! As the young child of that book is back and now, as you probably guessed from the title, You Don’t Want a Dragon! has wished for a pet dragon. And of course, gets it. But (like unicorns) it is not all fun and games. There is a lot of less than pleasant chores and events that take place This book is pure Ame Dyckman, therefore, how bad can it be? […]

Keep an Eye on Those Dragons

The Secret Chapter by Genvieve Cogman

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There is a lot to like about the Invisible Library series: interesting premise, a heroine who is not a total stereotype, dragons and Fey, dimensional travel and trouble, adventure and fun, and some humor. The Secret Chapter is book 6 in the series and it has a lot to add to the series. The biggest add to the series is some further world building on the dragon side of things. Previous installments have built up some context for the library and the Fey, and now […]

Dragons and Swamp Folk Underwhelm in the Bayou

Highfire by Eoin Colfer

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I’m not sure what I was expecting with Highfire. I was introduced to the author Eoin Colfer via Artemis Fowl which I enjoyed for the first several novels, then lost interest in in the direction the series was going. I like the not entirely original premise of the grumpy powerful being (Vern the dragon) teaming up with and gradually softening to a spunky sidekick (Squib Moreau). The setting of the Bayou, presumably Louisiana, makes for interesting potential in terms of cultural lore. It’s sort of […]

Dragon Lover

Fire in His Blood by Ruby Dixon

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I’m finally back at the book reviews just in time for Spring! Last year for Cannonball Read 11, I read Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians, which was a steamy hot tale of alien-human with a great mix of humor and heart. I discovered she has another set of books that involves DRAGONS!!! and picked up Fire in His Blood from the library. In the first book of the Fireblood Dragon series, we meet our main character Claudia in jail for scavenging outside the bounds of […]

What happens when the last dragon on earth lives in the Bayou?

Highfire by Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer has penned a bunch of YA/children’s novels.  His extremely popular Artemis Fowl series will soon be a movie.  Highfire is an adult novel, which is more of an adventure tale than a fantasy novel, despite having a vodka loving dragon named Vern as its protagonist. Colfer is funny, funny enough to have been the one to pen book six in the Hitchhiker’s Guide series. The story is set in the swamps in New Orleans and has a memorable cast of characters – the […]

Room Enough to Spread a Dragon’s Wings?

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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  The Priory of the Orange Tree is a kind of book that might be as rare as hen’s teeth these days: it’s an epic fantasy story full of magic and dragons that happens to be a standalone novel rather than just one part of a sprawling series. This is not to say that the story contained within the novel isn’t substantial; at over 800 pages, The Priory of the Orange Tree sits somewhere between A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords in […]



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