Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Wormholes tend to travel in packs.”

FINNA by Nino Cipri

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Well this was an adorable little slice of a book. A wormhole opens in a giant IKEA-like store, a customer wanders through it, and two disgruntled employees (who have recently broken up and have been trying to avoid each other) are assigned to go fetch her, using a FINNA device to track her down. Ava and Jules hate their soul-sucking retail jobs but love each other, even though their various neuroses have made them incompatible. When the employees are all herded into a break room […]

seriously bereft that I read this so quickly and that there won’t be any more

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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People, a cover with our favorite SnowBaz on the cover, in their trademark wings and three piece suit! I didn’t have the patience to re-read Carry On and Wayward Son before this came off hold–so I tried to find some “Previously on…” type reviews. One in particular scared me–it talked about how the books read “like fanfiction” in that there’s no recapping, on the assumption that every reader had devoured the prior works a hundred times over. They were right, and also wrong. Yes, this book does read like […]

I loved this SO MUCH why did I procrastinate on reading it for so long???

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

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New Series, first in the Teixcalaan series and published on March 26, 2019! Ahh a day late for Pride 2021 but we’ll call it as under the wire–what a book to finish off on, and one where romance is not even the second (or third) priority for any of our characters. I will hold off on giving this a five star review but might very well come back and do so in the very near future. It has my feelings in a VISE. New romance, […]

A great roilicking read, well worth the time to get into the world

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

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Having written myself out with a review of the prior outing in the Dead Djinn Universe, I will quickly recap: this book is not the peer to The Daevabad Trilogy that I thought it would be. It’s Muslim Miss Marple solving capers in Cairo that happens to be inhabited by djinn and where magic is commonplace. Caveat I’ve actually never read Miss Marple, I was clearly just going for the alliteration. Will continue with a conceit that’s worked for me: things I didn’t like. Almost […]

I should learn to not judge a book by my vague sentiment as to what they are!

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

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In hindsight, this book should have made me realize exactly what sort of book series I was getting into. About double the length (?) of the first outing in the Dead Djinn universe and with correspondingly longer to nail down the tone, I definitely was too caught up in the ride to realize that I’d mischaracterized the series (to everyone I talked to about it) (which is everyone. I cannot keep my mouth shut about books I’m reading). To be clear–I’m not saying I dislike […]

“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 […]



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