Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.”

Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) by TJ Klune

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THIS IS IT. I’M DOING IT. MY 52ND BOOK REVIEW OF 2024 BABYYYYYYYYY. And what a delightful tome to end it on!  I have been eager to read the 2nd in this series since it came out, but of course the holds list at the library is five-ever deep. And then, I walk in two weeks ago and TAH DAH it’s on the hot picks shelf, where they put out 1 or 2 copies of new books that you can check out, for one less […]

“When I’m sad, I read. I can go on reading for hours. Reading quiets the turmoil I feel inside and brings me peace. Because when I’m immersed in the world of a book, no one can get hurt.”

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) by Satoshi Yagisawa

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Here I sit, on the precipice of completing my reading goal of 52 books, read and reviewed. And just like last year, I needed a teeny tiny book I could tear through to get the job done. And that’s okay, dangit! Last year ended with the first book in this slim series, so it’s appropriate that I visit the Jimbocho district of Japan once again. When we begin, Takako and those in her life are doing much better than they were in the first volume. […]

Girl, Forgotten

Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

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For some time now, I have been recommended Karin Slaughter as an author whose work I would thoroughly enjoy. Known for her slow burn thrillers, one of her most recent works, Pieces of Her, was adapted into a limited Netflix series. I didn’t know this when I picked up Girl, Forgotten, and thankfully it wasn’t necessary to have read the previous book as this book is only tangentially related to Pieces. The novel follows Andrea Oliver, a newly graduated US Marshal and daughter of Laura […]

The epitome of ‘meh’

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

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Hell Bent picks up not too long after the events of Ninth House: Darlington is gone, eaten up by a hell beast and likely sent down to hell. Alex Stern is determined to get Darlington, her friend and mentor back from hell or wherever he might be. And she will use the full might and magic of Lethe and the rest of the magical societies at Yale if she has to. The challenge is that there isn’t much information about descending to hell in any […]

What’s Hecuba to him? or to her?

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker

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I devoured Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls just after Christmas, and was pleased to find that the sequel, The Women of Troy, was also available. And so what better way to start my Cannonball read this year (my first ever), than by a review of this fantastic book? You don’t need to have read Silence of the Girls (though you should, because it’s excellent) because Barker reiterates the important stuff which went down in that book which has its impact on this one, […]

What a fall from greatness…

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

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My disappointment in this sequel is palpable. The first book Raybearer (which I reviewed on my goodreads here if you are interested!)  was an absolutely wonderful, bright, and fun ride of a novel so imagine how absolutely disappointing it was to see its sequel seemingly fail to grasp what made the first one great. In this sequel, we follow Tarasai as she navigates her new position in the empire with new challenges and a totally new cast of characters. The plot is not uninteresting but […]



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