Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Kaiju Holmes

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

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A Holmes and Watson style mystery set in a high fantasy world reminiscent of Attack On Titan or Pacific Rim. Dinios Kol is an engraver. An engraver can permanently engrave memories in their mind and retrieve them at any time by inhaling different scents. He is the brand new assistant to Ana Dolabra, a brilliant but extremely eccentric Iudex investigator who is apparently in some sort of great disgrace, banished to a backwater town by the sea walls. In a nearby town a high ranking […]

If there’s flying, there’s plot going on

Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Bingo 23: Take the skies Telepathy is essentially brainwave communication, wireless and thus air-born communication. Telepathy or shared mental space is also a major factor in Locklands. Also, a good chunk of time is spent is what might be this world’s very first “airplane”. A key thing to know about Locklands is that it is the third of a trilogy, so a lot of the tech/magic references and some critical background plot will not make sense without the first two. There’s been s several year […]

“No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late – that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be brought by what we give to one another, and nothing more.”

Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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I bought this book on release day (over six months ago) and for some reason never read it. I’ve been really weird about endings the last couple of years. I still haven’t seen the finale to The Good Place even though it is one of my favorite TV shows of all time, and it took some peer pressure (and my sister literally turning it on for me) for me to watch the Jane the Virgin series finale. I suppose I haven’t finished many book series […]

A five-star trilogy. #CBRBINGO – Series

City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it’ll be here well after they walk away from it. My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.” – – – This series flies so far under the radar, and it deserves much more praise than […]

Three five-star books in a row; what are the odds? (Nm don’t tell me the odds.)

City of Blades (The Great Cities, #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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“Not one war, she realizes—every war, all wars ever fought by humanity. Never one side prevailing over the other, never separate and disparate groups, but a blazing, monstrous act of self-mutilation, as if humanity itself was cutting open its own belly to send its intestines spilling into its lap. The sword speaks to her: Are you these things? Is this you?” This series continues to be so good, and in such unexpected ways. It’s just so rich in basically every way a story can be rich: in […]

Times are changing and not for the better

Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

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CBR Bingo 3: Time Shorefall is the middle part of a trilogy and you can definitely tell; everything goes from bad to worse for nearly everyone, good and bad. The time element actually has several applications here: first, there’s a race against time as the good guys Sancia, Gregor, Orso, and Berenice try to stop the return of first hierophant Crasedes who is probably mega-evil, and when that doesn’t work, they discover Crasedes might be able to use scriving to manipulate time, or he’s somehow […]



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