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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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Helpless by Jessica Knoll

Helpless by Jessica Knoll

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I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Look, this will be short. This was a terrible book. I really enjoyed Knoll’s other books so I kept re-checking what I was reading to make sure that I had not made a mistake somewhere. This was somehow worse than Fifty Shades of Grey. Worse. I didn’t even know that was possible. And then there’s mysteries tied all together (poorly) a main character who is just aggravating and then pointless sex […]

One Last Word by Suzanne Park

One Last Word by Suzanne Park

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Well this had an interesting premise (what if messages you meant to be sent after you died get sent before you do?) and then it just had way too much nonsense with a relationship that never felt realized throughout the book. Also, the main character, Sara sucks in my mind. I just got tired of her not even a quarter into the book. All in all, just a so-so romance novel. One Last Word follows Sara Chae, who recently quits her job when her bosses […]

Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Be warned readers, this is pretty bloody/gory. A couple of scenes did turn my stomach a bit, but I kept plugging through. I won’t lie, readers are not going to like the main character, Poppy Stringer at all. At least at fast. She starts to grow on you, or at least she grew on me the more I read. And the more I read, I kept hoping that she […]

Carrion Crow by Heather Parry

Carrion Crow by Heather Parry

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger warning: Some body horror throughout. Wow. So Carrion Crow was a gut punch. Parry is partly inspired by the true story of Blanche Monnier and writes a fictional story following the Périgord family. I just felt pity for the character of Marguerite and absolutely loathed the character of Cécile. It was a lot of story to wade through and at times I found myself just getting impatient […]

Review of The Edge of Everything Short Stories

Safe Harbor by Nicola Yoon

Julia at the Drive-in by Rainbow Rowell

Winter Breakage by David Levithan

The Price of Admission by Dustin Thao

Three of Hearts by Katie Cotugno

Back to You by Ann Liang

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Here’s my review of the newest collection of original short stories with the theme of coming to age short stories that revolve around love, school, angst, and everything in between. I honestly enjoyed the majority of the stories, and only really didn’t really gel with one. Safe Harbor by Nicola Yoon and David Yoon (5 stars)-I thought the first story in the collection was great. We follow teen Isabel who has been sent to a group therapy appointment by her parents to help her get […]

Fetty on the Switches by David Simmons

Fetty on the Switches by David Simmons

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Well crime/horror is definitely a new genre for me. I have to say that all in all I give this collection 3 stars. Some of the stories I thought were really good and others I felt lost while reading. I did like that Simmons is entirely focused on showing crime in urban areas with most of the characters we follow are Black. I would definitely read something by Simmons […]



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