Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“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 […]

I’m so, so glad I got back into Robin Hobb’s books. Totally worth it.

Fool's Errand (The Tawny Man, #1) by Robin Hobb

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It’s been a few weeks now* and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how much this book ensorcelled me, and how weird that felt after my (mostly) negative experience with the first Fitz trilogy a handful of years back. I suppose I should have seen this coming, though, with how much I loved The Liveship Traders, but a lot of things I didn’t like about the first Fitz trilogy were actually addressed here, and I’m sure there’s a bit of me in this […]

“I am the only storm that matters now, and there is no shelter from what I bring.” #CBRBINGO – New Series

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse

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This shit is why we need diverse books, because this was really good, and I’ve never read a fantasy like it before, and that was fun! Black Sun is an epic fantasy based, for a change, not on a white medieval-type world, but on the pre-Columbian Americas. It is also chock full of diverse types of people in every way, and it was all no big deal, which was great. We have three main characters for most of the book, and a fourth is added about […]

“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

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Well, I was hoping I would like this more this time, knowing how it ended, but it was about the same experience for me. A bit sloggy up until the last third of it, at which point it really picked up. I know what he was going for here, turning a tired fantasy premise on its head like he did with the first one*, but the nature of that premise and the world and characters he built for himself just made it not a very […]

SEND IN THE KRAKEN!! aka The Queerest Fantasy Series I’ve Ever Read, Part IV

The House of Always (A Chorus of Dragons, #4) by Jenn Lyons

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This series remains one of the most confounding I’ve ever read. It makes me feel unstable thinking about it and reading it. I don’t quite know how to explain it to you. I start these books, every time (except maybe the first book, since I had nothing yet to forget) soooo frustrated that I get angry, and I almost quit because everything is so needlessly elaborate in terms of structure, plot, and characters, it’s basically impossible to feel prepared before reading them (without binging them […]

The Evolution of the Soldier

Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

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Oathbringer continues Sanderson’s epic tale, and while we hear from all the characters,  Dalinar Kholin takes center stage and much of the backstory that’s been hinted in books 1 and 2 comes to light. We are able to understand the depth of Dalinar’s past and how the Blackthorn became the legend he’s purported to be in the first two installments. Even though Sanderson uses this plot formula for both Kaladin in book 1 (who’s been my favorite character throughout the series), and Shallan in book […]



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