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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Classic's Quick Questions interview.)

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This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

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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 think that it could have pushed more on the horror aspects of this one or gone full V.C. Andrews it would have worked better. There were […]

Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong

Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Honestly, this had a really cool premise and I found myself really into it at a certain point, but that just fizzled. I think that the book was just too short in the end and it felt rushed at times and there’s no real resolution. You can just ask yourself what do you think happens next since it’s not spelled out one way or the other. I also […]

The Memory Tree by Heather Davey

The Memory Tree by Heather Davey

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. This had the makings of a very good modern Gothic novel. And then I don’t know what happened. The book just had too much going on to the point that I just didn’t care about solving the mystery of Hope-upon-Barrow village. I think if Davey had focused the novel on either the past following Octavia or the present following Kate, the book would have flowed together much more […]

The Memory of Borrowed Books by Meg Anderson

The Memory of Borrowed Books by Meg Anderson

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review.  Wow. This was a painful read. I should have DNFed it, but I kept hoping it would get better, it did not. I think the bigger issue is that the entire book felt fragmented. We know why it was that way later, but it didn’t read for a nice smooth read. And the romance that we should root for, just felt dull and limp. There’s a plot about […]

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

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I really enjoyed the first book in this series and kept wondering where the other books were, well we get the second book in the Swordheart series now and the third and final one next year called Shieldborn. This was a long slow romantasy novel that I think will thrill T. Kingfisher fans. We have more information about The World of the White Rat and some call backs to her other works in the Clocktaur War series. Daggerbound follows Learned Edmund who is ready to […]

The Housemate by J.J.A. Harwood

The Housemate by J.J.A. Harwood

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I honestly loved this entire book. Becks and Jamie were great. The ending was great and it had me wondering what would other people do in the situation that they got themselves into there. A very good haunted house horror novel. The Housemate follows Becks who is a young and queer woman who breaks up with her long-term girlfriend at the start of this book. Becks is sleeping […]



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