Cannonball Read 11

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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Booklikes, Goodreads, and NetGalley.

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Peter’s Adventure Continues

Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

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So this was okay, I just thought that parts of the book didn’t land. Lesley has always seemed jealous and angry to me and I am honestly sick of the whole thing with her and The Faceless Man. Parts of the book dragged though to me. When Peter is captured (I swear this happened in another book) you just want the story to get moving because you are tired of him being shown as being a moron when it comes to Lesley. Maybe I am too murderous because I would have dusted her by now. “Lies Sleeping” is the 7th […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

Not Every Essay Resonated

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

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I feel like a bad person for not totally loving this book. It was just hard to get through and some of the stories didn’t really move me one way or the other. I ended up just feeling sad while reading and finally finishing this book off with some wine. I think also that looking at rape culture is a huge undertaking, and so the stories could have flowed a bit better between them to the next story. Also I wish that things were not left vague in a few stories. A few times I went wait what happened when […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

A Nice Peek at Peter & Nightingale

The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch

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Well this was a nice look into Peter and Nightingale that for once did not involve The Faceless Man or Lesley. There is still something hovering over this book though that makes me think they may be trying to turn or did turn another character to their side and that’s getting a bit old to me. We do have Bev appearing in this one, but not center stage. We actually have Peter investigating mostly and worrying about his cousin Abigail who keeps pushing to learn magic. “The Furthest Station” has Peter investigating when people start calling in about ghosts attacking […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Not Worth the Price

The Wedding Shop on Wexley Street by Rachel Dove

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So I have been more diligent about reading samples before buying a book. I also need to start checking the book length. This one was just a little over 200 pages. 200 pages is not long enough to resolve some of the many messy plots in this book. Everything felt rushed. It didn’t help that the author decided to have things magically get resolved because of love or something. I relayed the plot to a friend last night and she was the one who called it the Jerry Springer show. She’s not wrong. Disappointed because the cover and premise sounded […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

This Should Either be 5 Stars or Negative 100

Her Closest Friend by Clare Boyd

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on March 5, 2019.  I have no words guys. I stayed up until 1 am finishing this book. It’s engrossing because at times you can’t believe how bad the writing and flow is. I kept reading because I was wondering if the character of Sophie was finally going to snap and take out her closest friend Naomi. And I was baffled at how dumb Naomi was about a lot of things. So I just sat back and enjoyed […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

No One Was Likable

Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

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Wow. No one was likable in this one except one character (Nan). Maybe you can read a book about fairly unpleasant people, but I tend to not be able to especially when the writing isn’t that great either. The ending was a laugh too. I think Fuller wants to have a sense of mystery about Ingrid Coleman, but if we are supposed to believe what Fuller is hinting at, she’s probably the worst of the Coleman’s. “Swimming Lessons” is about the Coleman family. About 11 years ago, the family matriarch (Ingrid) either ran away or died while going off to […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:42 |

See Into the Beast

The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well, this was okay. No big issues really, I just found myself bored reading it. We have how many retellings following Beauty from Beauty and the Beast? Well we get one told from the Beast’s point of view. I compared this book a bit to “Beastly” since that’s the only book I have read that told the story from the Beast’s point of view. I have to say that this Beast doesn’t seem to have been pretty pathetic. The author starts off with […]

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2/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

Not as Good as Christie

And Death Came Too by Richard Hull

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well. This was a bummer. I was hoping for a smart and interesting murder mystery. I just didn’t like how this was written sadly. We had many characters and Hull doesn’t develop them enough for you to care. The book also ended on a weird note before pushing me to another book that he wrote. I have no interest of that one at all. “And Death Came Too” follows a group of people (Gerald Lansely, Martin Hands, and Patricia Hands (sister to Martin […]

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2/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |


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