Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Starts off with a Firefly like crew and quickly becomes something entirely different

Honor’s Knight by Rachel Bach

Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach

Heaven’s Queen by Rachel Bach

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I would say that I enjoyed the series overall but I also think the first one was the most fun. There were a few lines in the first book that I thought would lead in a certain direction and I either completely misread them, or the author decided she already had enough to resolve without adding that into the equation so dropped that potential plot point. The second book adds quite a bit of complexity to the alliances of the world. With a main character […]

“But if you think there’s a man anywhere who can make me do anything I don’t want to do, you haven’t been paying attention.”

Heaven's Queen (Paradox, #3) by Rachel Bach

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Spoilers for this book and some for the first two books as well. This is a 3.5 star series for me, I think. I liked the first book well enough, but the series really didn’t get interesting until midway through book two, when the actual plot started to come out and play. That second book, in a rare occurrence for a trilogy, I think in retrospect was actually the best one of the series. It had the most exciting action, the most believable conflict, and […]

Pretty great second book, once I got into it.

Honor's Knight (Paradox, #2) by Rachel Bach

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For me, this book and series are really 3.5 stars. I had SUCH a hard time getting in to this book. I feel like getting through the first fifty pages took me five hundred years, and it was even hard to pick it up in the first place. I don’t know what about it was making me react like that, but it’s not a normal reaction for me, so for that reason alone I can’t give this a full four stars, but I’m rounding up […]

Outer. Space!

Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

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Read as part of CBR11bingo: Not in my wheelhouse. If you’re curious about the title, google “Adam Driver Llewyn Davis.” If nothing else, you’ll randomly see Kylo Ren going against Poe Dameron. Science fiction is not my thing but whenever I’m in a Star Wars mood, I crave scifi books. Fortune’s Pawn wound up on one recommended list or another. I always start a book like that and then wonder why I bother. This one was no different. But I gritted through and this is fine, entertaining military […]

“It was stupid not to live your life to the fullest when you could die tomorrow, and I sure as shit wasn’t about to take hell for that from some macho skullhead idiot.”

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This was fun! I think I might have had even more fun with it by audio, or hard copy, but all my library had was the e-book. I don’t know why, but I have a really hard time maintaining focus on e-books if they’re not romance. Anyway, hard copy or audio for the sequels, most definitely. Devi was a fun protagonist. She is extremely good at her job, and she is very ambitious. She wants to be a Devastator, the most elite fighters on her […]

“Kate Daniels in Space”

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Hoo-RAH! The Paradox series is so, so fun and so good. It’s basically Kate Daniels In Space, and as a huge Ilona Andrews/Kate Daniels fan and sci-fi/space opera fan, these books were like catnip. They center around a merc-for-hire named Devi Morris, who is the most competent, take no shit, battle trained soldier around. She’s a native Paradoxian, which makes her human but distinct from other humans called Terrans who are more closely connected in lineage to the original Earth. Paradoxians and those in Paradoxian […]



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