Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

cbr12bingo – Cannonballer Says

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Y’all really got me with this one! Bothari43 first grabbed my attention with an excellent review/cat pic combo, then Bea Pants increased my interest with promises of broad swords and dirty magazines. I don’t usually read much Science Fiction/Fantasy, but after the surprise hits of new favorite Becky Chambers (whom I would not have found without the help of Cannonball), I decided to give it a go! I was wary at first of the breakdown of Houses; I am often scared off by complex mythologies, […]

Gloriously Deranged Insanity

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Sorry, but it’s nigh on impossible to discuss this book without mentioning the endgame from Gideon The Ninth. You probably shouldn’t be picking up this book anyhow if you haven’t read Gideon. And if you have read Gideon, perhaps give it a bit of a re-read before embarking on Harrow The Ninth. You will thank me later. This book enjoys being tricky Man, this was one of my most anticipated books of the summer. After the wild ride that was Gideon The Ninth, I was […]

“Live fast. Die young. Bad girls do it well.”

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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  I’m at a loss as to how to describe this book. It’s part science fiction, part fantasy, part locked-room mystery and that really only scratches the surface. Gideon the Ninth has gotten a LOT of hype in the book community and it absolutely lives up to it in my opinion.  I’ve already preordered the sequel, Harrow the Ninth (number 2 of a trilogy) from my book store. Gideon is an extremely reluctant servant of the Ninth House. At the beginning of the book we find […]

crystalclear picked a good one!

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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I got this cheeky book from crystalclear for the 2019 CBR Book Exchange. I had seen a few so-so reviews for it already, so I was a little worried going into it, but I enjoyed it so much! I can see why some folks didn’t wholeheartedly embrace it, but the potential pitfalls didn’t bother me at all. We are dropped into this world with little to no explanation. Gideon Nav, an orphan who was raised on a planet ruled by the Ninth House necromancers, is […]

A bunch of gay as hell space books

The Disasters by M.K. England

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

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These are some of the sci-fi books I read in 2019. I’m not going to specify how for each one but they are all gay as hell in various ways, which is honestly just how I think space is going to be for us when we finally get there. Or at least, I sure hope. The Disasters by M.K. England takes one of my favorite tropes, a ragtag bunch of outcasts who circumstances force together must fight for their survival and learn to trust and […]



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