This is the fourth book in the Gideon and Sirius series. I believe I've read all four of them in this current Cannonball. After reading to the end, the author said he's got at least two more books in the works. Hopefully I'll get to read and review them for CBR11! In this book, Gideon ends up … [Read more]
Turning Silver Into Gold
I was so excited to get Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik as part of the book exchange because I loved Uprooted and had read and enjoyed the first book in Novik’s Temeraire series this summer. This is a loose (very loose) retelling of Rumpelstiltskin set in a past both realistic and imaginary and … [Read more]
Poetic feels
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is a coming of age story written in poetic verse. Xiomara Batista attends Catholic high school and forced by her mom to attend catechism classes. Her mom has a very strict idea of what her daughter should be. Boys are definitely off limits. Thus, she pours all her … [Read more]
All that’s left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.
There’s a lot to admire in Drew Magary’s debut novel, The Postmortal. The plot is fascinating: what if, this year, scientists could discover the cure for aging? What if you could get a series of shots that would guarantee that you would never age a day — and would live for as long as you wanted, … [Read more]