Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Two humans and a talking dog are chased around Europe for three months, intermittently pausing to give one of them tattoos.

Trapped (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #5) by Kevin Hearne

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Protagonists being chased from place to place while antagonist nearly always has one-up on them has never been a favorite plot of mine, so this book wasn’t ever going to be my favorite in the series, but surprisingly it does work better than I thought it would. Maybe because it’s so short, less than 300 pages, or maybe because I’m already invested in the characters. The central plot here is that after twelve years of secret training, because everyone (mostly everyone) believed the druid Atticus […]

FYI no idea how it happened that I’m reviewing #6 before #5. Goodreads says I read them in that order, too, but I! Did! Not! I! Would! Never!

Hunted (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #6) by Kevin Hearne

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This series is still fun, but it’s not my favorite. The last three books especially have been mostly action, with Atticus, Granuaile, and Oberon on the run from the Greek and Roman pantheons. They have to stay alive while trying to figure out how to reach safety, who is passing information from their side to the Olympians, and how they can make peace so they can all just be left alone. A couple of things have me rounding this up from 3.5 stars, even though […]

If you want to scare me, just put a skinwalker in your book.

Tricked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #4) by Kevin Hearne

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I’m happy to say this was the best of these books yet. Makes sense. The urban fantasy I’ve read all start to crystallize around books three and four. That’s usually when you’ve got enough set-up and characters that you can start moving the pieces around in more interesting ways, and building on what you’ve already laid out. Here, we’ve got Atticus and his apprentice Granuaile on the run, both of them having newly faked their deaths (well, Atticus fakes his death starting on page one, […]

Something Wicked & Fae Comes This Way

Trailer Park Fae (Gallow and Ragged 1) by Lilith Saintcrow

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I loved Lilith Saintcrow‘s Jill Kismet series, which I need to start back reading again. When I learned she had a fae urban fantasy series, Gallow and Ragged, I got pretty excited the library had the audiobooks. The first book Trailer Park Fae introduces the reader to two warring Sidhe Fae courts. The land of Summer is ruled by a ruthless Queen who hates the Winter King. UnWinter oversees his dark and dangerous realm. The two courts rule their respective seasons in the human world. […]

Liked this one a lot except for one thing which is spoilery.

Hammered (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #3) by Kevin Hearne

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Well, firstly, me and this book started off in a bad place. It opens with Atticus keeping his promise to Laksha, that he would steal one of Idunn’s golden apples, so that she can be immortal. But in doing so, he does some dumb shit, and also most of it made me mad because SPOILERS he literally kills all but one of my favorite figures from Norse mythology. Let’s list them out: Ratatosk, the enormous squirrel that lives on Yggdrasil the World Tree (okay, well […]

All Our Love for The Sea Witch

The Unkindest Tide (October Daye Book 13) by Seanan McGuire

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  Just like with the previous book in the series, Night and Silence, I can’t make any promises here with regards to spoilers. I’ll try and avoid anything too shocking from this book in particular, but the rest of the series? Be on your guard. Of all the characters in the October Daya series, I have to say that the Luidaeg is probably one of my favourites. Underneath her tough as nails exterior and her grim sense of humour lies someone who’s life has been […]



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