Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A defiant girl in a man’s world

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

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4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is book 2 in a trilogy, and the story pretty much follows on directly from the ending of the previous book. This book, while very good, doesn’t really stand on its own, you would do much better to start at the beginning, with The Bear and the Nightingale.  There are roving gangs of bandits travelling the countryside around Moscow, pillaging and burning the villages and abducting young girls. Prince Dimitri sends his cousin, brother Alexandr, affectionately known to his family as Sasha, […]

It’s 90 degrees here. This made it feel like winter.

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I read TheShitWizard’s review and immediately bought this book, read it, and loved it.  I am all about some adult-level fairy tales.  This is right up my alley. Vasya is a wild child, the fifth in her family, in Northern Russia.  She inherited her mother’s and grandmother’s second sight – the ability to see and interact with the invisible guardians, or chyerti.  A battle is brewing, though, between the Bear and the Frost-Demon.  Konstantin, a compelling and pious priest arrives in the village and introduces […]

For the night is dark and full of terrors

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Disclaimer! I recieved an ARC copy of this through NetGalley. That has in no way influenced my review. Pyotr Vladimirovich is a boyar, the lord of northerly and remote Lesnaya Zemlya in medieval Russia. A part of the world where the winters are long and harsh and isolate the populace, it’s no wonder that the cold, dark nights are spent telling fairy stories, like those of Morozko or Lord Karachun, the Frost demon himself – who sometimes rewards those who are brave and pure of […]



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