Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

BINGO! Finally

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

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Any time I don’t know what to read, I revert to Pratchett. There’s something comforting about the characters and the setting, of knowing you’re going back to a place that will both make you laugh and make you think. So I knew as soon as I saw the “old series” square, that it would have to be a Pratchett. I read Unseen Academicals  for the first time back in 2012. I had not yet returned to the shining ivory tower of professional academia, but I […]

What is the distinction between magic and technology?

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet

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BINGO – CITYSCAPE Sancia a thief and a damn good one. She gets hired in the city-state of Tevanne to do the jobs that no one else will be able to get done because Sancia isn’t just any average thief. Sancia is able to put her skin onto any other thing and know it. If she’s touching a wall, she knows where all the footholds are; if she’s touching the floor, she knows what and who are currently on the floor; if she’s touching water, […]

Even the sophomore slump is a great read

Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – Landscape (technically a seascape, but I think it counts) We pick up with the four powerful mage children Sandry, Tris, Daja, and Briar not long after the earthquake that struck Winding Circle in Sandry’s Book. The earthquake has damaged many of the Winding Circles defenses, and pirates threaten to invade the surrounding villages and Winding Circle itself to steal priceless magical tomes and artifacts, as well as take mages as slaves. The four children and their teachers must fight against the pirates in any […]

Don’t skip this series just because they books are children’s novels, please!

Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – Gateway – author Tamora Pierce and children’s novels Sandry is the sole survivor of a pox outbreak that killed her entire family; she carries with her the trauma of that loss and being locked in a dark room for months to be safe from marauders. Briar is a street boy with no home who has been caught stealing three times; his options are going to a temple or going to work hard labor at the docks or the mines. Daja is a trader […]

An immensely exciting magic system in a novel with resolution

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

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BINGO – OLD SERIES Mistborn: The Final Empire (also frequently known as just Mistborn) in the first in a series of novels that was originally published in 2006. Vin is an orphaned street thief who has had a tough life hopping from thieving crew to crew just trying to survive in Luthadel, the capital of the oppressive Final Empire. Vin is skaa (the lower, poor, working class) and not a part of the nobility, the ruling upper class who treat the skaa as sub-human. Ultimately, […]

Forever looking for my Anti-hero…

Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel's Redemption by Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel's Promise by Sylvain Reynard

The Prince by Sylvian Reynard

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This is a review of an entire series. The summaries of the later books may spoil certain aspects of the preceding books. Reader beware.



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