Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Novella Round Up – Expanding Urban Fantasy universes

How Green This Land, How Blue this Sea by Mira Grant

Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus by Mira Grant

Sanctuary by Ilona Andrews

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I read these novellas at various points this year and figured at this point, it might just be easiest to do a quick post covering all 3 to get them done. The first two are part of the same series. So Green This Land, So Blue This Sea – 3 stars The one follows one of the side characters from Shawn and George’s original blog as he visits some of their network in Australia to write a news story about Australia from an outsider’s perspective. […]

And this is how the end begins

Countdown by Mira Grant

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This is one of many novellas that Mira Grant (also known as Seanan McGuire) has written to flesh out her Newsflesh trilogy – or her version of a zombie apocalypse. As a result, I would definitely not recommend this as the entry point even though this is chronologically first and goes back to the very beginning, explaining the circumstances that led to the beginning of The Rising. She had already introduced these ideas in the main trilogy but here goes into the details, introduces the […]

I’m finally finishing the Newsflesh trilogy

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NEWS FLASH: I started this trilogy from the beginning!  See, I reall can do it! So this book took me a few months to read. It actually took me a few months to remember that I bought it and had at one time been excited to read it. I basically loved book one, and almost hated book two. I liked parts of this book and other parts were a little slow. It was also (unnecessarily) over six hundred pages long. I’m gonna go ahead and spoil […]

Book 2 in Newsflesh

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Ok so this is book 2 for the Newsflesh trilogy.  I loooved book 1.  Book 2 was kind of a chore.  I listened to it on my library’s app.  Sometimes I feel like an audiobook swims or sinks based on the voice talent.  I know that’s not a revolutionary opinion, but hear me out.  I know The Girl with All the Gifts was a freaking awesome book.  Listening to Finty Williams read it made it nearly magical.  I loved it so hard.  I don’t think […]

Back to ZOMBIES! Yay!!

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I loved this book. I really did. I just spent the last two and a half hours finishing it, because I couldn’t stop. I loved the characters. I loved the point of view. I loved the idea of the virus and where it came from. Ok, enough praise. If you’ve ever read Mira Grant and liked her, I suspect this book is for you. I started out last year with her Parasitology trilogy. I liked them a lot, and I kept hearing about the Newsflesh […]



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