Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Like revisiting an (alarming, homicidal) old friend

The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey

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This isn’t exactly a sequel, but takes place at roughly the same time and in the same world as the phenomenal The Girl With All the Gifts. A terrible fungus has been released on the world, turning all who are exposed into “hungries” – basically zombies. The survivors have banded together, and a crew of scientists and soldiers sets out into the post-apocalyptic mayhem to gather samples, reconnoiter, and look for a solution. We follow this crew on their journey: a pregnant scientist (Rina Khan), the teenage boy science genius (Stephen) she’s taken under her wing, a military commander, a […]

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8/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

Wasn’t this a Jennifer Lopez movie? Well, except for the murder…

Veil of Night by Linda Howard

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I know romance novels have a fierce fanbase here at CBR, but I have never really been part of it. However, my mom loaned me this because it’s about a wedding planner in Atlanta, and I live near there and have been navigating the fraught waters of wedding planning for what feels like eons now (nine more days, eeeeeeeep!). Hopefully there will be no murders and no bridezillas before then. Jaclyn Wilde is a stressed but successful wedding planner who runs her own event business with her mother. She’s a busy working woman who doesn’t have time for love, but […]

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8/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

Sporting Chance by Elizabeth Moon

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This one was a little confusing, but that’s entirely my own fault. I did not notice when I got it (used bookstore) that this was the sequel to a book that sounded even more interesting. The blurb sounded great, but I missed the “continuing adventures of” piece, so I spent a lot of the book being a little lost. However, I could still follow and enjoy the main plot. Captain Heris runs her ship in service of her employer, the cranky and delightful Lady Cecilia. There’s a political plot involving a possibly cloned/possibly damaged prince, and Lady Cecilia is poisoned […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

Interesting concept, no interesting characters

City at the End of Time by Greg Bear

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I couldn’t figure out where to even begin writing a plot synopsis for this dense monster of a book, so I checked Amazon and Goodreads to see if there was a recap I could start with. They were all three paragraphs long or more, and that would be my whole review! So apparently nobody knows how to summarize this mess. Let’s see. A few ‘special’ misfits exist in our time, able to see all possible paths from all possible actions and skip to the best one. Unimaginable eons (or “Ians,” TM Rincewind) in the future, a few ‘special’ misfits have dreams […]

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7/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

A Tana French wannabe

False Mermaid by Erin Hart

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This is a mystery starring a bunch of Irish people with a taste of the possibly-supernatural thrown in. It reads like Tana French wrote it when she was in eighth grade, before she learned to actually be good. Nora’s sister Triona was murdered five years ago. She suspects her sister’s husband Peter, but the rich golden boy was never charged, and the murder is still unsolved. Nora fled home to Ireland to recover, but returns to her family’s relocated home in the States when she learns that Peter is getting remarried in five days. She wants to solve her sister’s […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

Really, book blurb? “Americans will find it exotic?” No.

The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald

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Several years ago, I moved to a new state far from home, and started the arduous process of attempting to make friends. I met someone, I’ll call her Gertrude, who seemed great at first. She was nice and friendly and chatty, and we started grabbing lunch every once in a while. Unfortunately, by the time I spent enough time with her to figure out that Gertrude was smug and narrow-minded and relentlessly negative, those lunches and texts and hangouts were routine, and I was stuck. I solved the problem by once again moving states and states away. This book felt […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

A paint-by-numbers entry in a long-running mystery series (#25!)

Wanting Sheila Dead by Jane Haddam

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I used to really enjoy the Gregor Demarkian books, but I think they might have hit the Eve Dallas/Stephanie Plum stage of their run. I understand an author wanting to stick to a working formula, but when you get too checklisty (“page 84…time for a breakfast scene with quirky best friend”), it isn’t as fun for a reader. Gregor Demarkian is a retired FBI agent. He lives in Philadelphia, in his old Armenian neighborhood, with his friend/girlfriend/wife (depending on the book) and a cast of interesting characters (interesting the first dozen books, anyway). He consults on murder investigations for the […]

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5/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

Grim, with a side of bleak

Broken Harbor by Tana French

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  Unfortunately, I think I might be changing my mind about Tana French. I loved The Secret Place, but nothing since then has held up. I know my literary tastes tend to be a little on the pedestrian side, but I would like a few more loose ends tied up, and a little bit more of a happy ending. Detective Kennedy and his newbie partner Detective Curran (I listened to the audio book, sorry if I’m misspelling things) are assigned a case, the brutal slaying of an entire family. The crime took place in a spooky, half-completed subdivision that was […]

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5/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

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