Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“In Swahili it’s called utu. In Zulu, the word is ubuntu. It translates to ‘humanity,’ but what it really means is ‘community.’ I am because we are. Our humanity is tied together.”

The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

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Yet another book being done a disservice by its cover. (Should I switch careers and become a book designer? I have zero art skills but I could supervise people who do and like make decisions and stuff!) Anyway, it’s an attractive, colorful cover that I really like the look of, but it doesn’t convey at all the tone of the book or what it is about. I can’t even tell this is a fantasy from looking at this cover, and this is definitely a fantasy, […]

More Mystery Than Romance

The Silver Stag by Yasmine Galenorn

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Ember is the child of both Light and Dark Fae, which means she belongs to neither of their worlds.  She makes her living dealing with minor supernatural issues for folks in the greater Seattle Area.  However, when her best friend’s little brother goes missing, Ember is pulled into a world she doesn’t know how to navigate and a lot of danger.  Help appears in the form of Hearne who recruits both Ember and her friend into his agency.  Ember may actually have a found a […]

Summer Blahs

Wings Once Cursed & Bound by Piper J. Drake

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This has not been the most awesome reading summer for me so far. My attention span has been unreliable for a variety of reasons and it’s been difficult finding a book to really hold my focus. I’ve got a support stack of library books I’ve been carting from room to room, simply to ignore in favor of mindless freemium mom games. So, with all that said, I’m glad I finally finished something, even if it was more effort to push through than it should have […]

“If I’m going down, I’m taking it with me. M.A.D., bitch. I’m up for Mutually Assured Destruction – if that’s what it takes.”

The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu

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Ropa, a teenage ghost-talker, is too intent on making a living to work for free. But when a ghost begs for her to seek out her missing son, she gets drawn into the magical underworld of Edinburgh and uncovers the grisly truth. Astonishingly, I have finally read a physical book! This is a series I’ve been eying for a while, and honestly I’m not sure why it took so long to get into it. Ropa is a snarky lead with a strong narrative voice; it […]

I’m so curious what Jemisin will do next.

The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) by N.K. Jemisin

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This was a good ending to this series. It’s still not my favorite thing from N.K. Jemisin, but I very much enjoyed reading it (and it’s a fast read). I’m also glad that we didn’t get the original story or ending that Jemisin had planned (she talks about it in her author’s note); it sounded much bleaker and the series was originally going to be a trilogy instead of a duology. We’ve done the bleak N.K. Jemisin trilogy before. I appreciate that this ended on […]

The penultimate Kate Daniels novel.

Magic Binds (Kate Daniels, #9) by Ilona Andrews

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This is my favorite one of these so far. Everything is finally coming together. This is also actually the first of these books where I feel emotionally invested in Kate/Curran as a couple, which is kind of mind-boggling if you think about it. I’m really not reading this for the romance, but the worldbuilding and the side characters, and also Kate is a badass. Here’s the blurb, because I just can’t right now: “Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their […]



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