Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A middling middle book

Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

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I read Hannah Kaner’s novel, Godkiller, about a month ago, and liked it enough to pick up second book in the Fallen Gods trilogy, Sunbringer. Godkiller told the story of Kissen, a “godkiller” in the kingdom of Middren. A few years after a war involving the gods, worship is outlawed in the kingdom. Kissen is sort of a bounty hunter, tracking down and removing problematic gods from villages. When she meets a young girl, Inara, who is inextricably linked to a small god of white […]

Silly gags abound but questions are building faster than goblins on meth

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

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You know how sometimes the next book in the series isn’t as good as the one before it? Carl’s Doomsday Device does not fit in that category.  It continues to be uproariously fun ala Carl having to remove all magic items and running around naked because even his boxers are magic.  However, the questions continue to build.  Why are some NPCs aware and others not?  How mentally stable are the previous crawlers that become NPCs? What is going on in the broader universe that is impacting […]

Literally a snoozefest.

Sufficiently Advanced Magic (Arcane Ascension, #1) by Andrew Rowe

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DNF @ 16% I can’t anymore. This book quite literally put me to sleep—twice–and I cannot fathom torturing myself with it any longer. The 105 pages I managed to read were more than enough to tell me that this is not for me. This is a LitRPG book, and you might like it if you are really, really, really, really into gaming scenarios, and you need nothing else to sustain you in a story. The narration read to me like, “First I did this, and […]

It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn

The Legacy of Arniston House by T.L. Huchu

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After defecting to English magic (and higher pay), ghost-talker Ropa is ready to pack up her grandmother and leave Edinburgh behind entirely. But as tensions mount in the city and a mysterious enemy becomes more visible, Ropa’s grandmother is murdered – and Ropa is considered the primary suspect. In the fourth book of the Edinburgh Nights series, author Huchu really begins to weave together the broader conflict brewing in the world of Scottish magic and Ropa’s personal journey, bringing to fruition many of the things […]

Yawn

The High Mountain Court by A. K. Mulford

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I’m not entirely sure how I ended up with a copy of The High Mountain Court, by A. K. Mulford. I don’t remember buying it or being gifted it, but it’s probably been sitting on my shelf for at least the past few years. I didn’t know much about this book before starting to read it. It tells the story of nineteen-year-old Remy, who believes herself to be the last red witch alive after the King of the Northern Court invaded the High Mountain Court […]

“Is it the whole cat that’s dead? Or just the tails?”

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

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I’m continuing with my current M.O. of choosing the shortest unread books in my possession to read first. Clocking in at just over 200 pages, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark was a fun, breezy read. The story takes place over one night in the city of Tal Ibisi. It follows Eveen, an undead assassin who works for the titular Dead Cat Tail Assassins organization of hired killers. She accepts a contract where she is only given an address, but when she […]



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