Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Dear Faerie: AITA for Not Inviting My Step-Dad to My Wedding?

A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

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  Regular disclaimer for reviews in this series: we are fourteen books in now if you can believe it. Series spoilers can’t really be avoided. So I won’t bother But seriously, fourteen books in already? With a series this long, some drops in quality are to be expected and some instalments will work better than others. I have to admit, while I enjoyed the previous book, The Unkindest Tide, it did feel a little like treading water to me. But happily, for me, A Killing […]

One final trip to Black’s Faerie realm

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

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Spoiler warning! This is the third and final book in the Folk of the Air trilogy. Don’t read this review if you haven’t read the previous two book, it’s impossible to review the story without mentioning events from earlier. If you want to start the series at the beginning (since the series is completed now), The Cruel Prince is the first book. Official book description: “He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.” Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. […]

Why is Rhysand so sexy? Because it’s always Feyre’s choice.

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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I’ve now gotten to the third book in Sarah J. Maas’s ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ series, A Court of Wings and Ruin.  Over the past three books I’ve mused about what makes Rhysand such a sexy character, beyond how devastatingly handsome he is, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it has to do with always allowing Feyre to make her own decisions.  He’s charming, flirtatious, intelligent, caring, loyal to a fault, a touch wicked, with just the right amount of restrained violence that […]

Is this put in the YA category because publishers think sexy faeries aren’t serious enough to be in the ‘adult’ fantasy section?

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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The most recent YA books I’ve read are Suzanne Collin’s ‘Hunger Games’ trilogy and Victoria Schwab’s ‘Monsters of Verity’ duology.  Were there heated, passionate moments in those books, yes.  Was there spine tingling sex scenes, nope.  I had the assumption that full on sex was part of the dividing line separating YA from other categories.  But if that is the case, then this series is in the wrong section.  I can’t help but wonder if a decision was made that impossibly attractive faeries having sex […]

Toby Daye and the selkies

The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire

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Spoiler warning! This is book 13 in a series, and really not the place to start. The first book is Rosemary and Rue, that’s where you want to begin, if you’re interested. Official book description: Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong. When […]

Has the bones of “Beauty and the Beast” but more sexy and with faeries. CBR Bingo – Cannonballer Says

A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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In August, alwaysanswerb posted a review of A Court of Thorns and Roses.  The review also covers the other two books in the trilogy of the same name.  It starts with over all impressions before moving into spoiler territory.  I stopped at the spoilers because I had been convinced to read this book and didn’t want to know!  Having finished A Court of Thorns and Roses, I’m wishing I had put the whole series on hold at the library instead of just the first one. […]



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