Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

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Usually no matter what feelings I am having for the books of one Sarah J. Maas—positive, negative, or meh—I at least find her books to be entertaining and I can’t usually put them down. Except for two books now: Kingdom of Ash, and now this one. I’m pretty sure I know why I wasn’t satisfied by this reading experience, and was quite frequently annoyed by it, but I’m not sure WHY it’s that way. In my opinion here two strongest books are A Court of […]

You should all drop whatever you are doing and join me in my current obsession (double bingo)

Lore Olympus, vol 2 by Rachel Smythe

Lore Olympus, vol 3 by Rachel Smythe

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4.5 stars CBR14 Bingo: Adapted (Rachel Smythe’s modern take on the Greek myths – and obviously especially Hades and Persephone is so cleverly done) So, searching my blog and Goodreads to see what I wrote about Lore Olympus, my current web-comic obsession, I discovered that after finishing volume one in November last year, all I did was leave a two-sentence comment on Goodreads. If I recall correctly, I was pretty solidly burned out last winter, so I’m amazed I posted any reviews in the final months […]

Arthurian Legend, Feminist Perspective

Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian

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It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of re-imagined classics: Achilles, Circe, the Trojan women — I love a take on a well known tale from a marginalized perspective. Of course, all of those that I mentioned are Greek myths, with which I have quite a bit of familiarity. On a recent trip to the bookstore I found Half Sick of Shadows, which really piqued my interest — the story of King Arthur and Camelot from the perspective of Elaine Astolat, Lady of […]

WTF cliffhanger. #CBRBINGO – Heart

Fool's Assassin (Fitz and the Fool, #1) by Robin Hobb

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Been putting off writing this review because with each book in this series, my emotions get more and more entangled and it’s basically agony to write about them because it makes me feel them all over again. Luckily, until about the last hundred pages, this book wasn’t as agony-filled as the rest of the Fitz books have been, but those last hundred pages sure make up for it. The rest of the book, though not exactly sad, was also emotionally intense. Basically, you’re signing up […]

This book took me ten months to finish (double bingo)

Monstress, vol 1: The Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda

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CBR14 Bingo: Monster (there are several monsters in this story, both humanoid and not) Official book description: Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900’s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. So total honesty here. […]

“Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.”

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

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CBR14 Bingo: Bird (bird in the title, bird on the cover, love interest turns into a bird, there are so many birds in this story) Isobel lives in a little town where it’s always summer. This is because her town is just on the border of the Faerie lands, and most of the people who live there are valued by the Fair folk because of their Craft (anything that basically involves creating something, be it building, sewing, baking, cooking, or painting), acts that the Fey […]



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