Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

He went abruptly still. “Would you rather I stay dressed?” “Please don’t,” I blurted.

All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows

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“Slyly I said, “So you do like him.” Markel’s expression was pained. “He’s a familiar sort of stupid, that’s all,” he signed. “Like you at eighteen, but with better hair.” ― Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths All The Hidden Paths picks up a few weeks after the end of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. Still grieving after the events of the first book, Cae and Velasin are summoned to the capitol by the Asa, Tithena’s queen. Cae is the unwilling heir of his grandmother’s […]

You’re not paranoid if everyone is actually trying to kill you.

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles Book 1) by Foz Meadows

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I felt a sudden, furious rush of sympathy for every Ralian woman who’d ever been the subject of marital bartering; I was ashamed of my prior indifference to the phenomenon, and wondered, with a certain, sick fascination, if being raised in expectation of such a fate made enduring it any easier. ― Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance I bought this book a couple of months ago as it was on my “MUST ACQUIRE” list. However, I cannot remember how I heard about it […]

The mute servant says the thing that needs to be said in nearly every romance ever including this one

All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows

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I got a few books for Christmas that asked for, and I ended up getting into one of them because I wanted something lighter or at least more get-into-able than what I was currently on (I’ll probably finish that early next year). All the Hidden Paths is a sequel, and in a genre that’s starting to emerge called ‘romantasy’. The backstory is that Velasin and Caethari were put into an arranged political marriage, figured out they actually might like each other, and survived some attempts […]

“You must be patient with me, dear Cae, as I learn to inhabit myself.” #CBRBINGO – Bodies

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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When I first finished this in July and gave it five stars, I predicted that most people wouldn’t love it as much as I did, and I was right. It also unfortunately came out at the same time as Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron, which is pretty similar in story and theme (I haven’t read it yet, though I do have it out from the library), and most people have preferred it to A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. I think this is […]

wasn’t my jam but could be yours!

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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CW: rape, of the violent sort, and the aftermath play a key role in this novel from the very beginning so reader beware. There’s also homophobia While this was not my thing, I have some latent fondness for it because it helped me make the comparison to A Taste of Gold and Iron which I liked quite a bit. All in all, it’s a book with some tonal/pacing/detail mismatches that could benefit from a firmer editorial hand. To reiterate, there’s this (for me) well trod habit of […]

Different Scandals in Different Places

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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Bingo 11: Scandal A Strange and Stubborn Endurance opens with a scandal of sorts (or at least the inciting incident that gets the plot going does), and there’s a fear and use of gossip that gets brought up and/or used off and on throughout the story. There is a content warning at the beginning about the scandal which involves on-page sexual violence as well as self-harm and suicidal ideation; side note, I’m a little surprised that the one murder that does succeed before the final […]



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