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Featured Reviews

Zirza's CBR18 Review #29:

Holiday Roundup
A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck
System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells
Tough Guy (Game Changers #4) by Rachel Reid
Flesh by David Szalay
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
Last One Out by Jane Harper

Melina's CBR18 Review #5:

I Would Not Survive in 1855…And I Wouldn’t Want To
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

ashvader's CBR18 Review #2:

How Edith Wharton was ahead of her time.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Chancellor's CBR18 Review #5:

“The trouble with believing things is that they have an annoying habit of turning out not to be true”
The October Girl: Book One by Matthew Dow Smith

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What is Cannonball Read?

Cannonball Read (CBR) is an annual, memorial reading challenge that challenges participants to read and review 52 (or 26 or 13) books in a calendar year. We donate profits to the American Cancer Society in memory of AlabamaPink, our fierce warrior queen, in the fight against cancer. Read More »

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

September 7, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

This whole book irked my soul. There was a lot of things happening in this one and i just felt wholly unsatisfied by the never ending attempts to break the curse and the character of Jemma forgiving people for the crap that they did. I don't know what the author was going on for in this one, but I … [Read more]

Classic's CBR18 Review No:109 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Del Sandeen, This Cursed House ·
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Not what I expected; Exactly what I expected

Night's Fall by Kristen Ashley

September 7, 2026 by katie71483 Leave a Comment

Oh, gentle reader... I thought I had broken myself of the Kristen Ashley habit. Longtime Cannonball Read participants will remember my earlier addiction to her books and my lamentations over them. And by lamentations, I mean my lamenting over my inability to quit reading books that made me want to … [Read more]

katie71483's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Kristen Ashley ·
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“…looking back at those pages, I shivered to see our plunge into darkness, day by day, without realizing it was a spiral, and its nadir, the abyss.”

The Year of the Wind: A Novel by Karina Pacheco Medrano

September 7, 2026 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr18bingo Sheep. Sheep and other livestock are mentioned throughout the novel and sheep feature prominently in a particularly important scene Earlier in the year I reviewed Rabih Alameddine’s brilliant novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) and one of the things I noted … [Read more]

ElCicco's CBR18 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18, cbr18bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Karina Pacheco Medrano, peru, The Shining Path, The Year of the Wind ·
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Reese Witherspoon Strikes Again

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

September 7, 2026 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

There was a question I kept asking myself while reading Into the Blue by Emma Brodie, and after thinking it over I've decided that the answer is fifteen. The question is: How young would the author of this book have to be in order for me to find this impressive? To put it mildly, I was not a fan … [Read more]

jeverett15's CBR18 Review No:63 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Emma Brodie ·
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monstrous affectation

love when you realize there’s more in a universe that you loved

"Wings In the Morning" by Sarah Rees Brennan

September 6, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

This is really just a four star review for the one story in here about Luke Sunborn, he of the lovable himbo with depth persuasion in the delightful In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. I re-read In Other Lands solely to read this story, because I feared I would not recall enough of the tale to … [Read more]

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:47 · Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories · Tags: gavin j grant, Kelly Link, monstrous affectations, sarah rees brennan ·
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Kin by Tayari Jones

September 6, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

CW: racism, obviously, but also pre-Roe-era abortion, including bad outcomes (offscreen) What is it with books about ambivalent/absent mothers and the impact on the (female) child? I feel like I'm being hit over the head with a lesson that I don't particular need! I found this book almost … [Read more]

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Tayari Jones ·
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