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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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The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States by Connor Williams

The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States by Connor Williams

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. With the way things are now, history, real history, is so important. I think the thing that made me super ticked about that To Kill a Mockingbird sequel (that anyone who read the terrible book should have realized was a freaking version of To Kill a Mockingbird that thankfully had not seen the light of day until then) was the talking point by Atticus that the Negro was […]

The Book of the Dead by Jonathan Strahan

The Book of the Dead by Jonathan Strahan

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DID NOT FINISH-54 percent. Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I usually will provide readers a breakdown of each story, but I am not going to this time. I tried to finish this book over 4 plus days and finally threw in the towel today. This anthology has short stories by a lot of popular horror authors such as Cassandra Khaw, Paul Tremblay, Garth Nix and others. But this just didn’t work. I assume […]

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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I got nothing. This was really not a good book. It was not necessary to tell at all. It added nothing. It took to more than halfway through the book before you even get to the start of the Games. And then it just floundered worst than the first half. There’s an ending that some fans will love since we get to hear about some beloved characters, but frankly it’s not worth your time. Maybe if this had been a novella with some flashbacks to […]

Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

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Well this was probably the best time travel horror novel I have read in some time. Yes, that includes 11/22/63 which still makes me mad. I also thought this was the best Harrison book I have read in some time too. She’s been a little miss for me lately, but I keep reading her because I absolutely adored Black Sheep. Kiss Slay Replay has so many great things about it, but honestly I think it’s that Harrison fully develops the main character, Willa, and her […]

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

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I honestly have to say this was very very good. The main reason for the four stars is that the book gets a bit slow at times, and even the author points that out because of the historical notes that she focuses on that sometimes derails the main plot. I do love the historical aspects of this novel (hey history major here) but can’t pretend it didn’t drag things down. But I do love that Cañas points out that vampires existed in Mexican culture decades […]

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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I am going to be honest here. If I didn’t need to read this book for a bingo game I am playing, I would have quit this after a few chapters. It’s not a bad book or anything. It’s just a lot of stuff being thrown at you. I would also say that if you haven’t read works by Alexandre Dumas, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, and many others, you are going to be at a loss for some of the literary references that are tossed […]



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