Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ancient spells and nonsense.

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR15 PASSPORT (Stamp #12: Different Genres, High Fantasy) Forging ahead with the Throne of Glass series. This is the second book and I’m still here for the world-building (I think). I can fly through these books pretty quickly and the plot is interesting enough to keep me going and yet…I’m finding them kind of fluffy and a wee bit repetitive. Not a great sign for book 2 in an 8 book series. I’m interested in how this world fits in with the other Maas book […]

…what terrified him even more was that he trusted her. And he didn’t know what that meant about himself.

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR15 PASSPORT (Stamp #11: Different Genres, High Fantasy)                                                                          CBR15 BINGO (Violence square: super violent gladiator situation/also the inner turmoil of a young woman trained to be violent from childhood) Not to get too spoilery, but it has become apparent that all three of Maas’ book series (Crown of Thorns […]

The Long Slog Continues Through Book Four

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

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Queen of Shadows is the fourth entry into the seven-part Throne of Glass series, which is Sarah J. Maas’s first fantasy series. I devoured the author’s second fantasy series, A Court of Mist and Fury. So, of course, I would love Throne of Glass, right? Wrong. I have a serious love/hate relationship with all of these books. The first book (Throne of Glass) did not have enough world building, back story, and the characters were not built up enough for me to care about them. […]

When the Supporting Characters Become More Intriguing than the Main Character

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After seven novels, the Throne of Glass series has concluded.  Overall, I enjoyed the novel and the series and basically devoured this book in less than three days.  And it was long! I also may do a reread now that they are all released though I apparently should have started it before this novel.  I couldn’t quite remember who all the supporting characters were and how they came into play – which makes sense because while it’s only been a year since the last Throne of Glass novel, that one was […]

A rollercoaster of frustration, eyerolling, and morbid curiosity

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One of my goals this year is to read more fantasy by female authors. I will not declare this to be an exclusive goal (if the next Martin or Rothfuss or Lynch or Staveley novel is punished I will devour it with no guilt whatsoever). But as a woman trying to write fantasy, I want to see more what is being published by my female peers. This also may lead to less obnoxious grim-dark fantasy, which sounds great to me. My reading choices are also […]

Honestly, being a teen assassin sounds easier than my life.

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I enjoyed the Throne of Glass series so much I couldn’t make myself stop between books to write reviews. And then shit happened and I have three partial reviews so instead of trying to write either three reviews or 1 comprehensive review, I’m going to throw out a bunch of remembered thoughts and then try to say something reasonably coherent. As taken as I was with the books, I got bogged down in writing the review and eventually abandoned and forgot it. I found it […]



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