Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Court of Fun and Nonsense

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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I waited way, way too long to review these properly (my MO for this entire Cannonball), so my scattered impressions are these: º Sarah J Maas has a real talent for world-building and concepts. Her depictions of the fae in this book and in her other series are rooted in just enough common fae lore that she doesn’t have to get bogged down filling in lots of backward detail, but she of course contributes enough of her own unique features that they aren’t interchangeable across […]

Book two is definitely the highlight of this series, but this is a pretty good ending.

A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas

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This actually reminded me a lot of the ending to Throne of Glass; I had similar issues with it. But ultimately, this was a pretty good finish to the series. I definitely didn’t like it as much as I liked the second book. It was much messier, structurally. She just really isn’t great in my opinion at writing that end of series final battle book. She relies pretty heavily on deus ex machinas, and a lot of the intimate character growth we got last book […]

The villain/hero swap!

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

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This was compulsively readable, and it is by far the most I’ve ever enjoyed anything Sarah J. Maas has written (previously that dubious honor went to the third Throne of Glass book, which now that I come to think of it, this book is very similar to). Her writing style continues to work much better in the first person, and I was actually super impressed at how this book basically dismantles everything you thought you knew about the first book. I find it ballsy of […]

Longer is not better

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

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OH GOD I DID IT. Just like that, Throne of Glass is finally freaking over. I thought this day would never come and now that it’s here (well, passed, I finished this last week) I can’t quite believe it. Another Sarah J. Maas series is in the books (hah!) and you know what, I hate it less than A Court of Thorns and Roses. Kingdom of Ash is LONG, y’all. I got a look at it in a bookstore where I giggled as I pointed it out to my […]

Thank You, Next: Throne of Glass

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas Finished March 19, took 12 days to read 3 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Young Adult Rating: 2/3 Young Adult I had incredibly high hopes for this series as I devoured Sarah Maas’s other series: A Court of Thorn and Roses. Unfortunately, Throne of Glass did not draw me quite as quickly. I can’t quite put my finger on why, as there were a lot of similarities between the two first books of each series. We meet Celaena, an […]

Yeah I’m gonna do it

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas

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Maybe I like these books because for the most part I read in snippets – on the train, at lunch, on the train again, while my fiance plays FIFA. A lot of my day to day reading gets done in ten to fifteen minute bursts and basically any book I’ve picked up by Sarah J. Maas really suits that lifestyle. The writing is fairly simple and their plots are convoluted without being particularly complex. The mothership once described the modern Nikita as being the perfect gym […]



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