Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Everybody else seems to *hate* this, but I really liked it!

Hide by Kiersten White

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I honestly don’t understand where all the one-star reviews are coming from. This was fine! Not the best thing I’ve ever read, but solid. I get that not every person is going to like every book, and that’s as it should be, but the overwhelming hatred for this frankly baffles me. Like, I’m not gonna get angry about it, just make this face: People be throwing around the phrase “worst book I’ve read all year!” and I’m like . . . really? This books right […]

A conclusion that doesn’t stick the landing

The Excalibur Curse by Kiersten White

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Kiersten White’s Camelot Rising trilogy has been a fun diversion through other points of the last two rotten years, so I was looking forward to the final book wrapping it all up. The premise thus far has been intriguing, after all: the series focuses on the perspective of Guinevere, newly married to King Arthur and brought to Camelot–except Guinevere is not what she seems, but some sort of fae creature trained by Merlin to aid Arthur in a Britain that is divided between various warring tribes. […]

Historical (Fan) Fiction: *An Occasionally True Story

Bright We Burn by Kiersten White

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This book and this series goes well beyond my expectations that I held for it. I am not sure what I thought would happen and how I would feel but every other chapter was so compelling that I was lost to whatever they were feeling. The character work here especially just….*chef’s kiss*. I’ll get into it more below. Since this is the third novel in a series and I have not reviewed the other two this is just a quick and non-spoilery summary of these […]

Secret Identity Inception set in Camelot

The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

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This book is an excellent example of quality YA titles. If you like Young Adult novels and have any fond memories at all of reading about King Arthur, this is going to be right up your alley. Plot: Guinevere is on her way to marry King Arthur. Only it’s not Guinevere! It’s a sorceress who has been trained by Merlin to protect Arthur in secret because they’ve had to ban magic use within Camelot. Only maybe that’s not the whole story? This book does an […]

“The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.”

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I definitely borrowed this book based solely on the presence of a short story by Rainbow Rowell, but I’ve read books by some of these other authors, too — David Levithan and Gayle Forman (Forman’s story in this was one of my favorites). And I know Holly Black’s name (The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, which I will eventually get around to reading, I promise!). Basically, if you like young adult fiction, you’ve probably read at least one of these authors. And you should probably read this, […]

Holiday Love Stories to Make Feel You Warm and Fuzzy

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I love Stephanie Perkins. Seriously, in my eyes she can do no wrong. In fact (spoiler alert), one of you may be getting a book by her for Christmas this year. Ahem. When I first read that she was editing a collection of romantic holiday-themed short stories, I was thrilled. And then I read the author list and pretty much camped out at the bookstore waiting for it to show up. And you know what? I wasn’t disappointed. These twelve stories all center around relationships […]



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