Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Short and satisfying beach read

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

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 Picked this up off a paperback sale rack when I was looking for a light, easy, vacation read – and it didn’t disappoint. Cecilia accidentally stumbles upon a sealed envelope in her attic – addressed to her by her husband, with the instructions to only open it after his death.  The problem is that her husband is very much alive, and when she asks him about it, it is very clear that he doesn’t want her to open it.   Naturally she does, and discovers a secret that will forever change their lives, as well as the lives of so […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

I warned them that I don’t like to cry…

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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 I read this book for a book club that I’m a part of.  When we voted on our July selection, I deliberately did not cast mine for this book.  Because I just KNEW.  I could tell from the description that it was one of those books that was going to make me cry.  Apparently this is something that lots of people enjoy however, and I was outvoted. The titular character is a middle-aged Swedish man named Ove, who has lost his wife and his job in the span of six months.  As his life revolved around the love of Sonja, […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

I hate myself a bit for getting sucked into this one….

The Likeness - Dublin Murder Squad #2 by Tana French

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 Ok…after wanting to throw book #1 across the room multiple times, this was a bit of an improvement. It is not so much a sequel, as it is a spinoff, which was interesting.  It didn’t resolve any of my questions from book 1, but at least I didn’t have to deal with the biggest asshole character ever written anymore. The premise in this book is so unbelievable that I rolled my eyes more than once, because, COME ON. Our detective is called to a murder seen where the victim is her doppelgänger, and is using the assumed name that she […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

I WANT TO PUNCH THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK IN THE TEETH.

In The Woods by Tana French

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 Oh sweet mother, did this book ever frustrate me. On one hand, the premise is interesting – a girl shows up murdered in a forest; the lead detective on the case was involved in the suspicious disappearance of two of his friends when he was a child – in the exact same forest.  Dun dun duuuunnnnn….  Who killed this girl? What happened to his friends all those years ago? Are the two cases related? 608 PAGES LATER AND ONLY ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. WTF. The modern day case was fine, a somewhat predictable and sorta infuriating ending, but […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

A book that I purchased solely based on judging it’s cover.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

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 I’m so stereotypically Canadian, that I picked this up because of the hockey game on the cover.  True story.  #sorrynotsorry Beartown is a small rural village (in what I’m assuming is Sweden, although I don’t think it ever specified) that is slowly dying.  Their only hope for economic revival is their junior hockey team – a championship win will secure them as the site for a new elite hockey academy which will bring people and businesses back to the area. But before that final game, at a drunken teenage party, the star player rapes the coach’s daughter.  What follows is […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

We need a new category for Mystery-Love Story-Religious Thrillers

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

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 The Wonder brings so many of my favourite elements together – a mystery, faith, a love story, and Ireland.  It basically hit all the right notes for me. Anna is a young Irish girl, who is gaining fame for being able to live without eating for weeks.  Lib, an English nurse and self-proclaimed skeptic, is hired to observe and substantiate the claims that this is an honest-to-goodness miracle. Tensions develop between Lib and Anna’s family, as well as members of the community, as she tries to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding this girl. Spoilers… (sorta): While I […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Pride and Prejudice…. if the Bennetts were worse than the original

Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld

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First, a disclaimer.  I LOVE me some Pride and Prejudice. I own several copies of the book, I love both the BBC miniseries, and the Kiera Knightly movie.  I have a scarf printed with text from the book.  I have read many of the modern ‘spinoff’ novels, and have enjoyed most of them. So when I saw Eligible in the Charlotte airport while looking for a book to kill time during an unexpected layover, it was a no-brainer for me. All that to say….. meh. For me, part of what made the original Elizabeth & Jane Bennet so appealing was […]

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7/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

So. Much. Ugly. Crying.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Can I just write a four word review?  EVERYONE. READ. THIS. NOW. No?  You need more? Ok fine.   Thomas tells the story through the first-person voice of 16-year old Starr Carter, who is witness to one of her close friends (Khalil, a black teen boy) be killed for no reason by a white police officer.  It’s (sadly) not an unusual story if you’ve turned on the news, like, ever…  but to see it through the eyes of this young girl makes an unthinkable tragedy even more heartbreaking.  Starr has to wrestle through the legal system, her interracial friendships and […]

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7/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

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