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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 Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen

The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen

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I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. The Women in White follows two different timelines and at one point, five different women. Timeline one is set in the present day with a woman named Riley applying for a caretaker position after she is dealt a huge blow by her ex-husband. Riley needs the job and a roof over her head. She is interviewed by an elderly woman named Betty who gives Riley the job minutes later. Betty then […]

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

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Not too much to say about this one outside of the fact that I should have DNFed this one instead of proceeding. I think I just have to deal with the fact that the only book of Backman’s that I liked was A Man Named Ove. And everything else has been pretty much misses for me. My Friends had a lot going on and it was just too much after a while. There was so much repetitiveness, so many stops and starts to telling a […]

Ironwood by Michael Connelly

Ironwood by Michael Connelly

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I don’t know what to say about this one outside it wasn’t that great. It’s just a ho-hum novel/3 stars and honestly it’s because of a lot of things that I will go into below that showed why this would be a solid three stars. I hoped that Connelly would shake off whatever is going on in his Ballard books with this one. But unfortunately, I think that this needed more time to marinate and to just have these books be their own thing. Instead, […]

Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard

Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. This is my first Catherine Ryan Howard book, and based on this book, I don’t think it will be my last. I loved the side plot of the histories of houses and can they taint future owners. But, I think the main plot following three women: Ellie, Erin, and Hannah through different times was what held the book together. You quickly find out what is tying these women […]

Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden

Carry Me to my Grave by Christopher Golden

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Warning: Some bloody/gory scenes. Well this is my second Christopher Golden book, and I definitely think this one held up better than the last one I read. We have a son (Malcolm) being forced on a quest to take his dead mother (Maggie Wise) back to Maine to bury her. I thought that this book had great character development, some interesting world-building, and I thought that he once again […]

Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist

Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. This was so freaking good. You want to read a horror novel set in Scotland? Well here’s your book. I honestly worried at first that since I didn’t really care for the main character, Tasmin, I wouldn’t enjoy. But one of the great things that Grist did here, is that you realize you don’t like her, heck she doesn’t like herself. So once you lean in on the […]



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