Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Heist gateway to YA fantasy

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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CBRBingo – Gateway I haven’t read Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy, and I don’t think I will after the consensus at the CBR catch-up that the worldbuilding was let down by the execution.  But I loved Six of Crows, also set in Bardugo’s Grishaverse. So did many other Cannonballers, who have written a number of excellent reviews that free me from the need to focus on plot or character profiles in mine. This was an obvious choice for the Gateway Bingo square.  While most definitely a fantasy novel, set […]

Crowns, and Kings, and Grisha things, maybe a few too many

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

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Bingo 8: Rec’d I picked up Rule of Wolves partly because Narfna seemed to mostly like it (6/21/21) and it was out on a library display, so opportunity. Admittedly I hadn’t read it’s prequel but that turned out to be fine, since I had previously read the duology that comes directly before this one. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing for the previous entry in the series, but at this point I doubt I’ll be seeking it out since I now […]

A Crooked Kingdom Full of Reps

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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Bingo 2: Rep The more I thought about it, the more I think Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows 2) really does work for the Rep square. I saw an article from Tor.com that argued that Nina rep’d for body positivity arguing that it is unusual for a main character/heroine who is female and larger and not just there for the comic relief or for the eventual slim down/glow up. While I do agree with this, I think it’s a bit more of a factor in […]

“We’re not helpless. Novels are full of ragtag bands facing impossible odds.”

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

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Rule of Wolves is a good conclusion to the grand story arc begun back in Shadow and Bone.  If you’ve stayed with the Grishaverse to this point, this book is a must read.  And for those who particularly like the “Six of Crows” duology, the gang gets back together for a heist! I enjoyed this book!  But I’m finding it hard to review without spoilers so here are themes within the book.  Ravka has been ramping up it’s technological marvels, adding flying machines and submersibles to […]

Much Beloved but Not by me

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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I’ll just say this up front: I do not get the hype around this series. I realize that I am not the original target audience (it’s dark YA fantasy), and that Six of Crows is not the original introduction to the Grishaverse, it’s a side-series. That said, I’m kind of wondering about the Netflix show Shadow and Bone because from the sound of it, if you’ve read the books, you don’t like the series, but I haven’t read (most of) the books, so maybe? Actually […]

“The world might crumble, but Nikolai Lantsov would be holding up the ceiling with one hand and plucking a speck of dirt from his lapel with the other when it all went to ruin.”

Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

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This was actually a really great ending (for now?), except for this one thing that I hated. It also managed to change my mind about several things I thought I didn’t like about the last book, and several plot twists took me completely by surprise, both of which are quite the feats! This review won’t make sense, and I’m not even going to try to make it make sense, if you haven’t read the previous books in this series and Six of Crows. Just a […]



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