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 Soulmate

The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well not quite up to par with Hepworth’s other works. And it’s really only because the back and forth between two women in separate timelines just didn’t work after a while as well as the lack of depth on some of the characters especially after a bunch of things get revealed. For example, I get why Hepworth included Amanda’s point of view, but after a while it added nothing […]

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

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Good lord. I felt so many emotions while reading this book, and I am realizing that for the most part, I felt sad. I feel sad that a bunch of yahoos (that is my polite word for them) came into a town called Grafton and decided here we will make a libertarian paradise and just utterly wrecked the place. To the point that at times it felt like the bears were not the worst part of the whole ordeal. I think what makes me most […]

Santa, Please Bring Me a Boyfriend

Santa, Please Bring Me a Boyfriend by Sophie Ranald

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You don’t need to read Ranald in order, each of her books can be treated as a stand-alone, but honestly, it makes sense to. You read the first book and it sets up the next character you are going to follow or at least you get glimpses of them. Ranald kind of ran out of room out of the original friend group she was following, so in the last book she jumped to Abbie and Matt. We heard about Abbie’s best friends in that one […]

The Last Party

The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh

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Trigger warning: Rape Well this is a new series by Clare Mackintosh. I have either loved or just being meh/okayish about her books. I was glad that this one had an interesting main character that we apparently are going to follow through three books. I enjoyed DC Ffion Morgan and loved how her past experience with the man who is murdered comes full circle by the ending of this one. The man who is murdered, Rhys Lloyd, is a villain you are going to want […]

Blood Roots

Blood Roots by Richie Tankersley Cusick

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Trigger warning: Rape and incest Look, I grew up on Flowers in the Attic and this book was TOO MUCH! I maybe screeched a few times. I have usually enjoyed all of Tankersley Cusick’s young adult horror books, but this was just a bridge too far for me. Maybe because the main character was Too Stupid to Live (TSTL). Maybe it was because the secondary characters practically held up “We are Bad People” signs were being ignored by TSTL main character and were also cliche […]

The Rising Tide

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves

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I started getting into the Vera Stanhope novels after the great tv series (you can watch on Acorn via Amazon if you are in the U.S.). I felt a bit disappointed by some of the earlier books because they were a slog to get through. But with the latest installments, this Vera still seems someone similar to the tv series one and also separate at times. Unlike in the tv series, the book series still has Joe and Holly working for Vera. All I have […]



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