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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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A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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I really wanted to love this one, but it ended up not working out for me. That does not mean I won’t be reading this author again in the future. This book showed a lot of promise, it just kept hampered I think by Mandanna not breaking this up into two novels. I really wanted to know more about Sera’s upbringing by her aunt and the Guild and spells she learned. Instead we in essence start the book mid-scene with people and places that don’t […]

A River Red with Blood by John Connolly

A River Red with Blood by John Connolly

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger warning: We hear about the rape of girls and women, but thankfully we don’t get a play by play. Or we may have, I won’t lie, I started skipping that part of the book. I feel like this is my fault. I said in my last Charlie Parker review I was sick and tired of the mystery of Charlie and his dead daughter Jennifer. I didn’t care […]

The Children by Melissa Albert

The Children by Melissa Albert

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I didn’t really enjoy Albert’s Hazelwood, but had hopes for this one, but again, I think she has issues with one with the book premise sounding great, and then the execution not really working. I had similar issues with the characters not really drawing you in as you read. I know I was supposed to see Guinevere’s mother Edith as  dark figure (she gets mentioned as being similar […]

You First by Caroline Kepnes

You First by Caroline Kepnes

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. There was zero need for this book. I have zero idea why it was written unless Caroline Kepnes wanted to really write about Sex and the City. All this book does is make you hate Joe some more. There’s no special insight into him at all at the age of 17. He’s still insane and falls in love with someone and does whatever it takes to keep them away […]

Strange Buildings by Uketsu

Strange Buildings by Uketsu

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Trigger warning: Not shown, but told about child rape. This took me weeks to get through. Unlike the other books, I did not fly through this. This ended up being so convoluted and just not enjoyable even after the reveals. I think that Uketsu focusing on several buildings/stories in this one, just took away the appeal that had me loving the first two books out there. It just felt like a lot of the reveals/endings to some of the buildings didn’t make a lot of […]

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Trigger warning: Rape I have to say that I really enjoyed this novel, but after a while it dragged for me. I loved the characters of Elizabeth and Calvin, but the book started to feel flat to me after [incident] and then it just felt a bit like it spun it’s wheels til we synched up with how Elizabeth got her cooking show. And I won’t lie, Elizabeth is hard to like at times while reading. I think that Garmus was going for her being […]



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