Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Back to “Normal” Until the Next Major Life Change

Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

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Bingo Square: Favorite (new entry from a favorite series and author) – Bingo 7/4th row While I thought it would be funny to put The Favorites in my “Favorite” square, once we got to the end of September and I hadn’t filled my Bingo card, there was only one answer for this square – the newest October Daye novel! After releasing two Toby novels in 2023, Seanan McGuire switched publishers, leading to a two year break between novels. This one starts off about four months […]

I Love October

Silver And Lead by Seanan McGuire

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Toby life hack #19- no one can tell if you’ve gotten covered in blood again if you’re already covered in blood! Life has been pretty uneventful since the end of Titania’s hijacking of faerie reality. Everyone’s just quietly trying to get over their well earned PTSD. Toby herself is about two weeks from giving birth and has been sitting at home enjoying the pampering that Tybalt and her housemates have been smothering her with without going insane at all… Hahahahaha yeah she’s about ten seconds […]

End of the Ghost Roads

Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire

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Bingo 18: Border   Angel of the Overpass is perfect for “borders” because it’s a book about the borders between the living and the dead, as well as different types or realms of being dead. It’s also a ghost story, and it’s spooky season. I’d sort of been saving this one since it’s the probably final installment of Seanan McGuire’s Ghost Roads series, which I think is my favorite of her series’ though probably not the best known. The premise is firmly rooted in American […]

Dear Faerie: We Need to Chat About How to Put a Fair Maternity Leave Plan in Place.

Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

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Look, I do feel a bit bad not following every bingo tile to the letter, but I have one that I am having difficulty filling, and I have not written a review for an October Day novel for nearly two years, so I think I can excuse myself.  First, a point of confusion: I had thought that the next book was going to be called These Violent Delights, and even stated as such in my last review. But as you can see from the title—Silver […]

“Now, it sounded almost like coming home. What a difference a few years can make.”

Silver and Lead: An October Daye Novel (#19) by Seanan McGuire

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Four months after the events of Sleep No More, Toby is 8 1/2 months pregnant and going stir crazy. When Arden announces several important and dangerous artifacts have been stolen from the armory, she sends Toby on the case. Can Toby find them, all while dealing with a increasingly upset husband, a miserable member of Fae nobility, and her aunt the sea witch wanting to stand in as Godmother to her unborn child? And what happens when Toby realizes that what’s been lost can be […]

“Living my life to disappoint my father had been something to aspire to.”

The Innocent Sleep (October Daye #18) by Seanan McGuire

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And at last, we come to an end of the books out so far, and Seanan McGuire thankfully ends it on an upbeat note. I vastly preferred Tybalt’s point of view of the events that happened in Sleep No More; not only was there more action, but there was a narrator I want to hug, not slap. For a man who’s philosophy has to be “when this is all said and done, I will definitely have that nervous breakdown I’ve scheduled because I certainly deserve […]



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