Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Finally an HEA (sort of) for Rachel Morgan

The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

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I’ve hit my half-Cannonball with one of my favorite books of the year. I had hoped for a proper 52 books cannonball, but alas, life happened. I’ve been reviewing The Hollows series by Kim Harrison nearly every Cannonball Read challenge. I was SO close to catching up with the original ending of the series. That is until Harrison restarted it last year with American Demon. I love how has the whole Inderland community in her stories: witches, demons, vampires, werewolves, fairies, elves, pixies, you name it. […]

How the Heroine Lost Her Appeal

How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason

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I had thought to finish How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge for 2020 since I’d just reviewed the first book in the series, but I wasn’t quite fast enough. As sequels go, this was pretty average. The action picks up not too long after the concluding events of the first novel, with Rupert, Grytt, and Ivar on their sheep farm on Lanscott, and Rory, Jaed, Zhang, and Thorsdottir basically doing some free-lance piracy/salvage work in some remote corner of space. One of the fairies appears […]

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 […]

Try not to be too crabby that this does not come out until August

Crabapple Trouble by Kaeti VanDorn

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Due to the cover of Crabapple Trouble I was worried this might be some really bad acid trip. That fear continued when, I noticed heads did not always meet body in the illustrations and later, heads literally roll away after “popping off” of their bodies. I am assuming kids will be okay with Kaeti VanDorn’s realistic-abstract-unique characters which are sentient fruits and vegetables. But I can see some adults being unnerved by them. After all, the characters are Farmers which technically farm themselves (the lemon […]

Faerie court intrigue at its finest

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Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. This book by Holly Black is the first in a new YA series, The Folk of the Air, set in the treacherous High Court of Faerie.  I haven’t read anything by Ms Black previously, but I’ve been in a reading slump for a few months and this book looked promising when I saw it in the hot titles section at the library.  The first […]

Backyard Fairies

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Backyard Fairies is more of a 4.5 rating as I would have liked “something else” (though I am not sure exactly what that would be. Perhaps I would have liked it to be a tad bit longer. I do enjoy the illustrations as they are unique. They have a realistic quality but in a slight unrealistic way. The contradiction of this does make them slightly magical. Phoebe Wahl has been the girl in this story. I would also go as far to say, that she […]



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