Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn’t a fan of lamps.” #CBRBINGO – Holiday

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

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I’ve been holding off on reviewing this one for a couple of days because I wasn’t sure if I was going to round my 4.5 stars up to five or not. Turns out I’m not—for now. This series and its premise make me nervous. I know that most YA goes in for happy endings, but there’s always the occasional tragical one, and I’m nervous this is one of those. So, I’m sort of holding out to see how the last two books go. If it […]

Chainsaw <3

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

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If someone had told me ten years ago that this book featured an emotionally turbulent teenaged boy hand-raising a baby female raven whom he has inexplicably named after a deadly tree-felling instrument, I would have read it a hell of a lot sooner. As it is, though, I’m glad I haven’t been spoiled for anything in this series. I really enjoyed my time with this first book, also my first book by this author. I think I had been avoiding it because I didn’t want […]

Catching up with Adam and Ronan

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This is a short story set after the events of The Raven King, the fourth and final novel in The Raven Cycle.There will be spoilers for some of the plot in those books, so if you want to remain entirely unspoiled and haven’t yet read these excellent books, come back after you’ve caught up. Told in a somewhat disjointed and sometimes confusing way by Opal, the little dream creature created by Ronan, the readers get to see some of what is happening in the lives of Ronan […]

A safe space for spoilers

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Just throwing this out there right off the bat… this review is gonna have spoilers in it. They will be unavoidable, and the entire review is going to assume that you have also read this book, because I need a safe space to discuss the ending and what that means retroactively about the series and for my feelings in general. If you’re looking for a general sense of how much I recommend this book, I point you toward my four star rating and encourage you […]

Death doesn’t discriminate

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I wish I’d written this review immediately after finishing the novel. Because I loved it. What a satisfying conclusion to a series I never imagined I’d get so damn attached to. Things are bleak for our heroes. People have died. Bad things are afoot. Cabeswater is in danger. Gansey is destined to die, and it’s surely going to break your damn heart into a billion tiny pieces. I started to get a bit panicky, honestly, that there was no way things were going to end […]

A Strong Finish

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How do you solve a problem like having to write a review about the last book in a great YA series? It feels impossible. Thank god I wasn’t doing Cannonball Read when the 7th Harry Potter book came out. My review would have just been a string of “I don’t knows” and “oh my gods” and “I can’t evens.” I don’t want to summarize the book because spoilers, so maybe I’ll just talk around the plot. Stiefvater took on the Herculean task of wrapping up […]



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