Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Meddling With Time Never Seems to End Well

Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back by Alison Wilgus

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Bingo 19: Font The font used in Chronin volume 1 is one of the ones that basically looks like a relatively clear print handwriting. It’s too consistent to have ben actually by hand though. Set a few decades in the future, time travel is now a known technology and certain history buff undergraduate students are being allowed strictly regulated time to go study their favorite time periods in situ/tempore. One such student is Mirai who has traveled to 1860s Japan just before a revolution was […]

Lone Women

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. How does Victor LaValle do this! I am mad at myself for gulping this book down, but I could not slow myself. At one point I had to say go slower, go slower, you are getting to the end, and I was not able to slow down. I needed a great horror book and LaValle per usual delivers. The characters are so damn good. The writing is lyrical. […]

Burial Rites

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

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Well this made me cry at the end. I so wanted a different ending. Which to me is often a sign of a very good book. You hope for a different outcome even though you know it’s not possible. “Burial Rites” is a historical fiction novel based on true events. We follow the final days of a young woman named Agnes Magnúsdóttir, found guilty of murder and sentenced to be beheaded in Iceland in 1829. The book follows many characters and you get most of them […]

..they suspended their arguments, united for once in their astonishment at the unusual spectacle of an elephant lumbering across the square.

The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh

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CBR14 BINGO: Elephant Square (Another literal one. Sometimes googling for the square yields great results, sometimes not so much. ) In 1940s Belfast, a young woman working at the local zoo sees the arrival of a new baby elephant as her opportunity to prove herself. Hoping to become the first female zookeeper at the Belfast zoo, Hettie quickly takes on the responsibility of handling the elephant in addition to all of the menial responsibilities delegated to her. Work is her escape after Hettie’s father abandons […]

In Pursuit of Destiny and Desire

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

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I felt like a bit of a dumb-arse after picking up She Who Became the Sun. I don’t know if it was just me stumbling around blindly perhaps, but it took me a good long time to realise that the this book was a reimagining of the Ming Dynasty’s rise to power. The ebook version of the book didn’t have a blurb on the back cover, true, and that might have helped. But it did have a map of  north east of China on one […]

“The earth has turned. The time is here. I am dying. Come and collect your inheritance.”

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

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I tell you what, I’ve really been putting off writing this review. I just don’t want to try and put words to the subconscious magic this book can work upon a reader. And also the literal magic that is in the book. (An old woman turns into a tree! Flowers grow out of people’s bodies!) I’m really not going to talk much about the plot here because it’s way better to be surprised, but I will say that the book starts out with all of […]



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