Cannonball Read 18

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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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Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village

Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson

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I laughed so hard reading this. The illustrations and mini quizzes are top notch. And honestly, you would think after watching Vera, Midsomer Murders, etc. I would be less likely to traipse into a quaint English village, but nope, still want to. I love how this book broke things up into things such as village (church, graveyard, pub, etc.) the villagers (the vicar) and locations like the antique shop which is never open. Also the vicar is apparently the most murderous of the villagers, so […]

The Perfect Date

The Perfect Date by R.L. Stine

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Honestly this ending was top-notch. Reminds me a bit of Tales from the Crypt honestly. I was not expecting it and I thought it was cleverly done. Sometimes i forget that R.L. Stine besides doing tons of teen horror, liked to play around with twist endings. Some of his Fear Street books did not end on a “happy” note. I liked the characters in this one and I was wrong about who the mysterious girl was and how she came about.

Weather Girl

Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Trigger warning: This book has a solid trigger before reading warning readers regarding depression and suicide.  Thought this was a solid romance though have to say that the initial crush/like that Ari has on Russ doesn’t really ring true. I wish that Solomon had explored more why Ari was so ready to open up to Russ but not to her former fiancée who complained about her wearing a false face about how happy she was. I never got the sense he didn’t love her or […]

The Children on the Hill

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

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McMahon is such a hit or miss for me. The latest, was definitely a miss. I liked the idea of reimaging Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, but the results were not that great. I think that if the book had stayed more focused on the past before moving onto the “present” maybe the book would have worked better? I don’t know. There were so many plot holes that after a while I just threw my hands up in the air. Also there was a weird subplot with […]

Empty Smiles

Empty Smiles by Katherine Arden

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Sorry but this was just a solid 3 stars. I think the biggest issue is that Arden tried to rewrite The Smiling Man and based on the first book in the quartet it never squared. We also didn’t get a lot of time with our trio of Ollie, Coco, and Brian together. The ending also just felt very rushed. Finally, the whole book was pretty short. I got to the 80 something mark and the remaining part of the book was excerpts from the first […]

Desperation in Death

Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb

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I will say one thing that is something that I didn’t want to mark this book down for since the book setting is 2061 in an alternate version of the United States. Most sex trafficking victims are marginalized people. Also most girls are not just kidnapped off the street like “Desperation in Death” shows. I don’t want to jump up and down on this book too much for this, but wanted to point that out to potential readers. I also say this because there’s a […]



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