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Books about murders that aren’t about murders at all

In the Woods by Tana French

The Likeness by Tana French

Faithful Place by Tana French

Broken Harbor by Tana French

The Secret Place by Tana French

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I feel a little bad this review, because these are excellent novels that deserve more than the fly-by treatment I’m about to give them. But I read these months ago, and I’m barely managing to accomplish a half Cannonball this year because writing reviews just isn’t happening for me lately. I have had the Dublin Murder Squad books on my TBR for some time, prompted by the positive reviews of many Cannonballers. Amusingly (to myself), putting the series out of mind for several years led to me completely forgetting what they actually were by the time I got them from […]

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12/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 26 |

It’s kind of a lot (but that’s ok)

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

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I liked this, but at the same time, I’m experiencing a potentially problematic personal issue where I’m getting pretty fatigued by multi-POV “but like, how are they all connected, man?” stories. Which is (reductively) David Mitchell’s main wheelhouse. Sorry Dave! The problem is that, inevitably, there are some stories/sections I care about a lot, and others where I don’t quite connect to the character and with their relation to the greater plot. This was definitely the case with Cloud Atlas, the only other Mitchell book I’ve read, and which contained at least one section that I literally DNF’d. For my […]

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12/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 21 |

(bad “Electric Feel” joke)

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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The Power is horrifying in a lot of ways, one of which is how parts of it are also rather cathartic, which it shouldn’t be on the whole. If that opening sentence sounded a little confused and contradictory, that’s because it reflects my feelings about the thing. On the one hand, it’s about women getting to win, but on the other hand, the violence and abuses of power by men and women make it hard to feel good about anything, because it comes off as altogether misanthropic. Toward the middle of the book, when tables were turning and men were […]

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10/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 20 |

This was very smouldery but I am being picky

When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons #6) by Julia Quinn

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So, this one was kind of weird! 3.5 stars, I’ll say, from the exact average of the first (great) half and the second (weird) half. Spoilers. But first, Goodreads summary: “In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 19 |

A Court of Fun and Nonsense

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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I waited way, way too long to review these properly (my MO for this entire Cannonball), so my scattered impressions are these: º Sarah J Maas has a real talent for world-building and concepts. Her depictions of the fae in this book and in her other series are rooted in just enough common fae lore that she doesn’t have to get bogged down filling in lots of backward detail, but she of course contributes enough of her own unique features that they aren’t interchangeable across stories. She’s good at setting up high-stakes situations and taking some genuinely surprising turns throughout […]

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8/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 18 |

Even worse now than it was when it was first published

Iced (Fever #6) by Karen Marie Moning

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Re-Read – August 2019: I first read and reviewed this 6 years ago and didn’t really enjoy it. But this summer, I wanted to revisit all of the Fever books, having been a big fan of the initial run of 5 in the series. And although my general feeling going into Iced was that this and the follow-up Burned were the weakest among them, I was actually a little cautiously optimistic that I might enjoy them more this time. A big part of that comes from how in the years since my first read, I’ve read a lot of comments […]

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8/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 15 |

I was bored but I read them all anyway, so joke’s on me

Written in Red by Anne Bishop

Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

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Anne Bishop’s The Others series is a little bit odd. There is a lot in the books that is cool, interesting, and different, but I also found parts of the books to be tedious and amateurish. Bishop is not some green writer, so I can only assume that it’s just her style… which makes me hesitant to seek out her other books. I finished out this series because I was sufficiently curious how it would end, but overall I felt that the books didn’t quite live up to the potential of the world-building, and that Bishop made some choices that […]

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7/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 14 |

“The world was going crazy. Nothing left to do but hold on and yell “Wheee!” at strategic moments.”

Magic Triumphs (Kate Daniels #10) by Ilona Andrews

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I was holding out on reading this, the final book in Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniel series, for a long time. Over the years, these books were warm stew, a thick blanket, and a campfire. They were familiar, comfortable, and satisfying, every time. After the first 9 books, as a reader, I wondered how on earth it was going to finish. It seemed impossible, because we knew that as powerful as Kate was, Roland, her father and enemy, was even moreso, and even if she could somehow beat those odds, their lives were still tied to each others’. No spoilers, but […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 9 |


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