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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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Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King

Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King

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Honestly, just a nice little audiobook by Stephen King. He begins telling about how he became familiar with Maurice Sendak and how he told stories to his three children and what their favorite stories were. I honestly always loved the story of Hansel and Gretel. What’s not to love about two children who manage to out-wit a witch and get away from their evil stepmother? I do love that King is like yeah I have taken liberties with this story and I regret nothing. Hansel […]

The Keeper by Tana French

The Keeper by Tana French

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I don’t even know what to say. I can count on one hand the number of French’s books that just didn’t hit right with me and I am sad to say, the latest Cal Hopper did not hit right. I think that the sad part of it really is for me that French didn’t go dark as she has in her previous installments of this series. It just […]

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

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I am going to buy a permanent copy of this book for my collection. I loved this. I don’t even know what else to say. You want a horror filled The Little Mermaid with a plague doctor? Well this is your book. I loved the first half that shows the aftermath of what was done to the kingdom that captured a mermaid and then the beginning of how the mermaid and the doctor first met and began to feel…well something. I don’t have anything to say except […]

Nightmare on Nightmare Street by R.L. Stine

NIghtmare on Nightmare Street by R.L. Stine

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Honestly this is a strong 3.5 star read (I rounded it up to 4 stars). I know that Stine says in the beginning this is a book where everything can happen (it does) and it’s for the adults who used to read his book as kids (ehhh) that was great but the overall story itself felt very young. All of the characters are pre-teens. I was hoping for […]

The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson

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I did really enjoy this latest by Jackson, but I have to wonder at what was she trying to convey here with the race flip that she did. There were some things I definitely got, but others….I don’t know. I think that some of the narrative choices she chose reminds me a bit too much of One of Our Kind and not in a good way. I know that Jackson was inspired by the Sarah Lawrence sex cult, but I think that having this book take place in […]

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

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I don’t know how this ended up being worse than the first book in the Lo Blacklock series, but it definitely was. Ruth Ware has mostly missed books for me, but I was curious how she would follow up to The Woman in Cabin #10. I wish I had just told myself to stop being nosy and picked another book. All in all, none of this makes sense except Lo has to be the most naive and just flat out Too Stupid to Live (TSTL) character […]



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