Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Featured Reviews

'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

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 »

Swordheart: I never thought I would read this many books in a year and I’ve run clean out of taglines

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Wealth - The whole story starts with a moderate amount of wealth being left to Halla by a deceased granduncle, and her quest to get it back for the sake of her own nieces. Halla is the widowed housekeeper of Silas, her dead husband's now-dead granduncle. Halla was, apparently, the only … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:46 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , , ·

That Darn Cat!

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

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Looking back, the cat should have been enough of a warning sign. The Road to Tender Hearts is about a quirky family road trip where an incredible number of extremely unlikely events occur, and these events somehow serve to bring the disparate members of the family together into a cohesive, loving … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:64 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Kansas City, MO is actually a great setting for a swoony mm fake dating romance

Isn’t He Romantic by Adib Khorram

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For a couple of years, Helena Greer has been telling anyone who will listen that we should read Adib Khorram. I knew she was right. It just took a bit for one of his arcs to get into my hands. Isn’t He Romantic is the third in his Love on the Vine series, and while I’m looking forward to reading the … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: ·

Slow but Good

Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith

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Bingo: Sheep. The main character appears to be a meek lamb but proves to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water is the story of a man who repeatedly swallows the humiliation of his wife taking continuous lovers during their marriage. Throughout the book, we follow Victor … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: , ·

New Haven is for (Ghost) Lovers

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Galaxy (Alex) Stern sees dead people. And they see her. And sometimes they can touch her, and it’s as horrible as you can imagine. In fact, the first 20 years of Alex’s life have been pretty horrible. Her father has been MIA her whole life. And her hippie-dippie mother, Mira, is well-meaning but … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Sparkling Revenge Romance

Revenge of the Sunshine by Jackie Lau

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I remember the moment I realized some men like it when a woman is mean to them. Zoe, the sunshine in Jackie Lau’s Revenge of the Sunshine, is a little bit mean. Bennett Chung secretly likes it that Zoe bullies him into whimsey. He doesn’t admit that he likes it. You have to pay attention to what he … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , ·


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