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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Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce

Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  I really wish I could have gotten into this one more, but it was such a slow book and it just kept taking me out of it that nowhere was anything mentioned about the time period we were in. I of course noted it had to be the late 80s or early 90s due to the mention of walk-mans and the Ninja freaking Turtles, but it was driving […]

Luck Be a Lady by Meredith Duran

Luck Be a Lady by Meredith Duran

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This was a great romance buddy read! I loved it from beginning to end. I really do need to read more of Duran’s backlist when I get a chance. This is the third book of hers I have done a buddy read on and she’s a great writer. “Lucky Be a Lady” follows Catherine Everleigh. Catherine is an heiress with a problem. If she doesn’t marry, she will end up losing her half of her family’s auction house. Her brother is threatening to force her […]

So Happy Together by Olivia Worley

So Happy Together by Olivia Worley

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This was the most confusing book ever. It’s mostly following a 20+ year old woman named Jane who is delusional about her 6 date “relationship” with the most basic guy ever named Colin. And we get the longest reveal ever of what sent her running from somewhere years earlier. I think that Worley was going for some twists/reveals to keep you going. But I just found myself bored […]

I Would Die For You by Sandie Jones

I Would Die for You by Sandie Jones

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  Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger warning: Rape This was just….not good. I have given Jones 4 stars before, and everything else has been 3, but this one I could not give more than a 1 star rating to. Most of this book makes no sense, it’s people being really really dumb, and just twists for twists. That ending was some Lifetime Movie thing. I wish Jones had added a “camera moves away […]

Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens

Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens

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Not bad. I just felt really bored throughout. And I didn’t find the romance between Anna and Will believable due to a total lack of chemistry. I have loved Cousens other books, but this one just didn’t do enough for me. I think the bigger issue is that the lead, Anna, is older than Will, and she keeps acting like someone who is not the age she is. She has two kids, a messy ex-husband, and I just didn’t gibe that with her obsessing about […]

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman

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A very good historical fiction novel. I just felt sad throughout since you know how this ends. “When We Flew Away” is a take on Anne Frank’s life before she and her family went into hiding and she started documenting everything that was happening in her diary. The book starts off with Anne celebrating her birthday, but also dealing with the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. I did love what Hoffman did here, but it’s missing her typical “Hoffmaness”–is that a word– there’s no magical […]



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