Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you haven’t read Star Wars: Bloodline, you might want to before reading this one.

Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse

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This was a very solid book that very much did its job in prepping me emotionally for SW XI. I have lots of thoughts and Bloodline feelings, but this probably won’t be as full review as I would like it to be. My brain is tired. This is really Poe’s book, although Leia and Wedge Antilles (!) have major roles to play as well. It picks up just days after the events of The Last Jedi, with Leia and Poe struggling to rally allies and build up the […]

That rare beast, a great final book.

The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3) by Neal Shusterman

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That was a really good ending. I am incredibly satisfied by it. It did what my favorite endings do, which is to manage to surprise me with things that feel inevitable. I am going to hold off on the five stars, after sleeping on it. I’m not quite sure why, though. Maybe when I do an eventual re-read (I most definitely need to, to see the whole arc), I’ll up it to five stars, which I will confess was my first instinct. I don’t really […]

Sometimes a book seems like it was written just for you; then you actually read it, and then you are sad.

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

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Much to my surprise, I didn’t really like this all that much. I will probably list some reasons down below, but bottom line ultimately is that something about it just never gelled with me. To elaborate, I didn’t really like any of the characters, except Elliott. The world-building makes no sense. (Or, there is no world-building?) SPOILERS Oxygen, where is it? How are they dealing with all the background cosmic radiation? Why are all these random fucking buildings floating in space? When is this set? […]

“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 […]

“We are all of us only human.”

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) by Ann Leckie

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The first time I read this book, my main complaint was that it didn’t have as obvious of a structure as Ancillary Justice, but on this second time through, I think I’m going to change my mind about it being less structured, and instead say that it’s differently structured. This book is structured around Breq’s journey from vengeful former A.I. enslaved to a tyrant, to having nearly as much power as that tyrant herself. What she does with that power is entirely shaped by her […]



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