Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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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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Love at First Sight by Laura Jane Williams

Love at First Sight by Laura Jane Williams

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Please note that I read this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my review or rating. I really wanted to like this book, but honestly it was driving me up the wall. The FMC, Jessie, drove me up the wall the entire book. She didn’t see the forest for the trees and I was tired of her swooning over a guy who was not worth it. I really wish that we had invested more in her relationship with her best friend, provided more backstory […]

A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston

A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston

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I went back and forth on the rating on this one, and only because parts of it dragged. However, when Poston got into the rhythm of the book it really came together. How many romance readers among us would not love to be able to step into a romance series we love? It was a great premise and I liked the magical realism parts of the book a lot. I think the biggest issue I had was liking the character of Eileen. I just found […]

Home by Martha Wells

Home by Martha Wells

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I know this is really short, but I loved it. It showed nothing but heart and I loved getting a human’s perspective of our Murderbot. “Home” takes place after “Exit Strategy” and before “Fugitive Telemetry”. I suggest reading both of those and coming back to this since it makes more sense to me I think doing that since you need “Exit Strategy” to understand what is going on with some of the characters, and it leads in nicely to what goes on in “Fugitive Telemetry.” […]

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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This one I stopped and started a few times. I just could not get into it. This is the second Brodesser-Akner book I have read and at this point I just need to hard pass. I think this could have worked if I cared about any of the characters. But I ended up despising Ruth and Beemer. And I found Nathan and Jenny exhausting. The book just felt so long and I got tired of reading about the Fletchers. I know that Brodesser-Akner was going […]

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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How I have missed you, let me count the ways…. Seriously though, I got told to read “Fugitive Telemetry” first and then circle back to The Murderbot Diaries, #5 and then #7. FYI, Wells has a new book or a novella coming out in 2026 called “Platform Decay.” We have Murderbot still protecting humans. This is set before “Network Effect”. Murderbot is stationed at Preservation Station and then discovers a dead body. Murderbot knows what to do in this situation, but also they know that […]

Another Man’s Poison (George & Molly Palmer-Jones #5) by Ann Cleeves

Another Man's Poison by Ann Cleeves

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I think every book I read this weekend was a three star read. Nothing Earth shaking at all. I think I am disappointed with this one because the prior George & Molly Palmer-Jones books were really good. This book’s reasoning behind the murder just didn’t make sense because Cleeves in my opinion did something I don’t like with mystery writers, just tossed out information on something you would not get to until they tell you. It just came out of nowhere for me. Also, for […]



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