Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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kfishgirl

I love to read. I'm usually reading at least 3 books at a time. They're not all good... some are really bad. I have trouble not finishing books though. Now CBR has doubled down on that trouble, because I want to get credit for reading the bad ones too!

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Werewolves live among us

Red Moon by Benjamin Percy

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Ugh.  OK.  This one was a little rough.  It was such a good concept, but it was sooooo slow.  I think the audiobook was about 20-21 hours.  It probably could’ve been 10 and it would’ve been better. The premise is that some people in the world are werewolves.  They were “infected” with a prion originated in wolves.  I nerdily enjoyed the backstory of the disease.  I could’ve listened to more about that! It starts out strong too.  Patrick Gamble is on a plane flying to a different state (Oregon?) to live with his mom while his dad goes to the […]

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5/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

The Philadelphia Legal gang is back

An Engineered Injustice (Philadelphia Legal #2) by William L. Meyers Jr.

A Killer's Alibi (Philadelphia Legal #3) by William L. Meyers Jr.

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Ok guys, this is a two for one deal!  I ready the first book in this series a few years ago, and kinda lost track of the author.  Thankfully Amazon remembered, and let me know when two more books in this world were available. An Engineered Injustice is Book 2 in the Philadelphia Legal series.  Like I said above, I didn’t even know it was a thing.  Just as the first book centered around one of the lawyers in the group, this book centers around a different one.  Vaughn Coburn is the lawyer we care about this time.  His cousin […]

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5/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

The queen’s private hacker

Cress (The Lunar Chronicles book 4) by Marissa Meyer

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This is the third book in the Lunar Chronicles series.  At the end of the last book, we got the whole gang together (Cinder, Thorn, Scarlet, and Wolf) to try and overthrow Queen Levana.  They decided to enlist the help of the queen’s own hacker named Cress.  Cinder and Thorn are most wanted fugitives, so they need all the help they can get. They find out about Cress, who is trapped in a satellite and under the thumb of Levana’s thomiturge (literally no clud how to spell that) Sybil.  There’s an ill-fated rescue attempt, and they all get separated, some […]

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4/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

John Rain is back

Redemption Games (John Rain #4) by Barry Eisler

Extremis (John Rain #5) by Barry Eisler

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This is Book number four in the John Rain series. John’s last job didn’t go so smoothly, and he almost died in Hong Kong.  He’s also now working for the Mossad, and kinda sorta working with his sometimes girlfriend Delilah.  He gets hired to eliminate a target in Manila, and after tailing the man for a while, realizes that he has a family.  For some reason the kid’s face flashes before John’s eyes when he’s about to kill the man, and he can’t do it. There’s a big cluster, and eventually the Mossad wants John dead because of the muck […]

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4/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Your voice isn’t the only thing they can take away

Vox by Christina Dalcher

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So this book took me a while to read.  It was an audiobook, so I usually listened to it after dinner while taking my dog for a walk.  It took a while because it was almost painful to read.  It’s set in a dystopian future where all women have a bracelet with a word counter on their arms.  They’re only allowed 100 words per day.  If they go over their count, they get burned.  Literally. We get dropped into a family with one daughter and three sons.  Of course the daughter has a word counter bracelet on.  She’s young, so […]

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4/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

The first three books of the Lunar Chronicles

Cinder (Book 1) by Marissa Meyer

Scarlet (Book 2) by Marissa Meyer

Fairest (Book 3.5) by Marissa Meyer

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Let me start out this review by saying SPOILERS BELOW!  After the first picture, all bets are off.  I can’t review these books without using details, because some of them get me feisty.  I actually wrote these reviews on paper last night because I had many #feelings.  I randomly found this series from my library through the Overdrive app.  I’ve listened to all three books that way.  Cinder is #1, Scarlet is #2, and Fairest is #3.5.  I’m on a waiting list for #3, but I figured that since Fairest is more a of a prequel / backstory, I could […]

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3/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

A headlesss classic AND (totally unrelatedly) a short story about an attempted suicide

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Day I Died by E. B. Black

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I read this because it was short and a classic.  I’ve seen the movie, but somehow I never had to read this book.  It took me a couple nights reading while I was laying in bed at night.  It was definitely interesting, but it was a little slow.  I honestly don’t read a lot of classics, so it could just be that I’m not used to the pacing of books written a long time ago. I don’t know.  I didn’t love it, and I didn’t hate it.  I just wrote another review where I felt like nothing really happened.  I […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

She fell in love with the islands first

The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum

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So I originally picked this book last year for CBR bingo.  I didn’t get around to it in time though, so I read it this year as my fifth book of the year. We start out with reporter Diana Marcum (the author, duh) kind of floating through life.  She’s not having fun or loving her life.  She’s not entirely happy in her career either. She somehow stumbles across a group of immigrants living in California.  They came from a set of islands in the Atlantic Ocean called the Azores.  Their main language is Portuguese. The immigrants tell her about the […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |


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