Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.”

Iron Flame (The Empyrean Saga #2) by Rebecca Yarros

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Well, I’ve hit Book Two, and it’s almost as good as the first, which I’ll take as a rare yet wonderous thing; I have read too many series where the first book is fantastic, and then we hit Disney’s Tower of Terror for the rest. There have been some changes in my opinions of the characters, some good, some bad. Dain, Mira, and Lilith (Violet’s mother) all grew on me over the book; I actually finished it not really wanting any of them to die. […]

Stand Back Everyone!

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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CBR Square- Borrowed Rebecca Yarros is about to reinvent the fantasy genre with Fourth Wing! It has sexy times in it, and no fantasy novel in recent times has people enjoying each other’s company! Sigh. I borrowed this for my audible subscription. It was fine. There were actually some things that I liked about this book. I liked the main character Violet has strengths and weaknesses. She has to use her brain to get herself out of situations where other people just use brute strength. […]

Book 3 of Venin, Love, and Dragons

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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I’ve already spent a lot of time reading the Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros, so I quickly picked up Book 3 of the series when it became available to me. Onyx Storm (2025) continues to follow Violet Sorrengail and her loves and adventures in the Kingdom of Navarre. Violet is still technically a student. She is in her third year in the dragon school that kills at least twice as many people as it graduates. She has been chosen by two very special dragons and […]

“The right way isn’t the only way.”

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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I am late getting into this series; for some reason I never picked it up before. Then I thought why not see what everyone is talking about; and to be honest I started out not understanding what all the hype was about, especially the first chapter. But by the time I was a quarter of the way through, hot darn, could I see it. Violet and Xaden’s bickering and subsequent whatever-you’d-define-it-as is my trope weakness (hello shades of Jude and Cardan or Toby and Tybalt!)  […]

Dragon Player

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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Picture this: The rain is pouring, you’re shivering, terrified, staring down into a dark abyss. You’re halfway across a narrow castle parapet—the first of many deadly tests you’ll need to survive over the next year. You’re smaller than all the other wannabe cadets. Weaker. But none of that matters. Your mother, the general in charge of your nation’s army, has decreed that you must join the Riders Quadrant. And so, you must. All your life, you’d been training to be a Scribe, studying ancient tomes […]

Yet another once-promising series traveling an unfortunate path

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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I came late to the Empyrean saga by Rebecca Yarros. I just read the first two installments, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, about a month ago when I found them on Kindle Unlimited. Of course I’d seen them all over BookTok for the last couple of years, but I’d just never gotten around to reading them. The more people raved about them, the more resistant I became. (Honestly, I still haven’t read ACOTAR for much the same reason.) I thoroughly enjoyed Fourth Wing. I raced […]



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