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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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Crime Rangoon by Vivien Chien

Crime Rangoon by Vivien Chien

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This is the 12th book in the Noodle Shop Mystery series. At this point the series is like a well oiled machine. We have Lana, Meghan, Kimmy, investigating with Adam and the Mahong Matrons assisting. In this newest one, Lana helps out the bookstore owner in the plaza she knows. She’s happy to help since one of her favorite authors is going to come to the bookstore to […]

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi

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  Honestly, I don’t think I am going to finish this anthology. I usually like Scalzi okay, but this story took way too long to get going and even one you get to the point of the story, I just didn’t care that much about it. That said, the ending was a game changer, but that was way too late for me to even really think this was a good story. I did think that Scalzi did a great job with time travel, paradoxes, etc. […]

Strange Pictures by Uketsu

Strange Pictures by Uketsu

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Again. This was bonkers in a good way. I re-read this book three times this weekend because it’s just so good. I know Strange Buildings is coming out next year and I can’t wait. I loved this plot and I didn’t see a thing coming that we got. I think this one was definitely more in the horror side of the realm than Strange Houses (just cause of the ending) but honestly I loved them both to bits and I would recommend running out to get both […]

Strange Houses by Uketsu

Strange Houses by Uketsu

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Well hello, a book that I could not put down and then ended up talking to strangers about when I went out to dinner (yes I take my books with me when I go out, it mostly does not prevent people from chatting with me) and just gushed over. This was 100 percent awesome. You give me a book with a cool premise (see these diagrams of a house, tell me what is strange to you), a dead body, and a lot of hmm could […]

The Rose Field by Philip Pullman

The Rose Field by Philip Pullman

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This was a painful read. I don’t even think I can articulate how bad this was. There was too much going on and just outright stupidity in a few places. I really wish we had the Lyra we came to know in His Dark Materials. Heck, even the first book in the Book of Dust trilogy was good, but then it went off the rails with book #2 and now this. Also the ending was a let-down. Don’t get me started on someone being straight up murderous through […]

When I Kill You by B.A. Paris

When I Kill You by B.A. Paris

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review.  I have to say that parts of this story didn’t really work such as the unknown narrator ending each excerpt with ‘when I kill you’, and the lack of chemistry between Nell and Alex. That said, I couldn’t put it down. I won’t lie though, I started to just skim the excerpts by the unknown narrator because I was tired of them. When I Kill You follows a woman […]



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