Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You learn your lessons and stay vigilant, or you die

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

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4.5 stars Official book description: A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die!    The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the […]

Sorry, I’m just not the audience

Above All Else by Dana Alison Levy

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Dana Alison Levy might be a lovely person; but as I do not know them personally, I cannot say one way or the other. However, I am sure I do not like her characters in Above All Else. In fact, I am disliking them so much, I just cannot finish this book. I am very glad I was able to get this in an e-reader format because even keeping my uncle (the logger) in a job would not ease my soul for taking the life […]

Sailing sailing the ocean blue

Kondo & Kezumi Visit Giant Island by David Goodner

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Kondo & Kezumi Visit Giant Island is a quirky story about friendship, overcoming fears and having adventures. David Goodner created book one of an unknown number of books in a new series for an early reader of chapter books. Or for a child that is willing to sit and listen to a longer story. Fun illustrations by Andrea Tsurumi are simple even slightly simplistic (but not in any way negative). The tone of the story feels like it has a “worldly” feel to it as […]

Fly My Pretties! Oh wait, wrong witch…. !

Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse

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Witches of Brooklyn is more of a 3.5 review and not 3. This is because it was not an “OMG LOVE!” nor was it, “OMG HATE!” read. There is a lot going on, but at the same time it is an easy story to follow. Good guys are good, bad guys are … well there are not “bad guys” just one spoiled pop-princess and people with no sense of visiting at decent hours of the day or night (depending on what you consider 1 AM). […]

You wish there were only lions and tigers and bears in this forest

Kerry and the Knight of the Forest by Andi Watson

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I felt as if I was reading a Grimm’s Fairytale, only nicer (even with the darker elements) by the time I finished Kerry and the Knight of the Forest by Andi Watson. There is a medieval feeling to the text. There is the “peasant” looking child, Kerry (and with flashbacks/memories his family are farmers also dressed in that peasant looking garb). And to make things a little more interesting, most of the action is shown in wordless images. It does not rely on text to […]

Battle on my Cousin!

13th Street V01 Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats by David Bowels

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There are three kids on the cover of this book. One is being carried off by a giant bat. I think it is safe to say, when one sees this, they can assume this is going to be a fantasy novel. I would even assume that it would be a fantasy mystery (after all why is there a giant bat, why are the people running and why is the girl wearing a yellow duck floaty around her waist?). And Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats, the […]



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