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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The Return by Rachel Harrison

The Return by Rachel Harrison

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Trigger warning: Disordered eating. So I really liked this one, though parts of it dragged. I did think that there were a couple of dropped plot points (mostly around Tristan), but thought the book was a great horror novel looking at female friendships and what is really a best friend. Be warned though, it had a lot of body horror though for people who are squeamish. “The Return” follows 27 year old Elise who is stuck in a dead end life in Buffalo. Her other […]

The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe

The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe

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Funny enough a friend asked me about Mary Alice Monroe earlier this week. I realized she had a standalone historical novel come out after a number of years of not having anything outside of “The Beach House” series. I told her that I loved Mary Alice Monroe’s earlier works, loved “The Book Club” and was surprised but pleased to see the first book of “The Beach House” series in my Kindle as previously read (eons ago). I decided to re-read this one and “Swimming Lessons.” […]

Misery by Stephen King

Misery by Stephen King

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Well, I had a book challenge to read a book that has been on my TBR pile for 5 years. This one has been on my list for decades. I don’t know why I never wanted to read “Misery.” Maybe because I liked the movie so much and I had an inkling I wouldn’t like the book? I don’t know. This was a drag from beginning to end. At one point I kept looking to see if Stephen King even wrote this book. My main […]

The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2

The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2 by Martha Wells

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Wow. Again the two novellas I read were really good, no notes, five stars for both of them. I got asked about my book last night (I was out eating dinner solo) and I think I maybe got a former librarian to give this series a try. I love meeting book lovers out in the wild. Rogue Protocol-I will just say this ending gutted me, but I loved everything that lead up to it. We have Murderbot focusing on gathering evidence against GrayCris Corporation and […]

Something Cheeky by Thien-Kim Lam

Something Cheeky by Thien-Kim Lam

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I really loved this installment by Thien-Kim Lam. The main reason why I gave it four stars though is that the romance between the two leads at times wasn’t the main focus. I think there was a lot of plot stories that kept derailing the main story of Zoe and Derek. Also, I was so excited to read a book starring a heroine that is a demisexual. It just didn’t shine through at all in this story. It is said as a throwaway by another […]

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

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Please not that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Wow. I got nothing. This was pretty awful. I don’t even know what the point of this one was. It was so lackluster. Things happen, serial killers run about Maryland, and then more things happen. The book ends. I honestly wish that Roberts would just write a straight up thriller and ditch the romance. You can see her heart is not in it much anymore. Her latest romantic […]



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