Cannonball Read 18

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I'm an avid reader working on my second official Cannonball. My favorite genres are mystery, horror, fantasy, and SciFi, but I'll read almost anything that won't make me cry. When I'm not reading, I'm probably being held down by cats. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: pixifer's Quick Questions interview.)

pixifer's Reviews:

Rambling but charming cozy

Manna From Hades by Carola Dunn

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I love Carola Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple series, so I thought I’d check out her Cornish mystery series. Sadly, the first book, Manna from Hades, can’t compare. It’s the 1960s and Eleanor Trewynn is an elderly widow living Cornwall. Eleanor and her husband spent years traveling the world for the charity LonStar, and after he passed she opened a LonStar charity shop in her hometown. Eleanor enjoys being back in England and living so close to her niece Megan, who was recently promoted to a Detective […]

Many flavors of Did Not Finish

The Disasters by M.K. England

Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George

Above the Bay of Angels by Rhys Bowen

Badge of the Bone Ritual: A Humorous Occult Crime Novel featuring Detective Scotty C., Book One by Archer Hay

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The Disasters By M.K. England Nax Hall is kicked out of the Ellis Station Academy less than 24 hours of his arrival. All he’s ever wanted is to be a pilot, but now he’s on a shuttle back to Earth. Joining him are three other washouts, Rion, Case, and Zee. Just as they are about to leave, the station is attacked. The disasters manage to escape, but learn that they’ve been framed for the attack on the station. They must find the real culprits and clear […]

I used to love this series but this book is racist.

Dive Bar Detective #3 by Archer Hay

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Brandy Alexander is the head bartender and manager of Olive or Twist, a dive bar in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis. By book number 3 in the series, she’s also an amateur detective, having solved two cases that affect the bar. Helping her are her best friend Emily and cozy mystery-loving sister Ginny, as well as various bar patrons and staff.  Book 3 begins with almost everyone at the bar being rushed to the emergency room after being poisoned. The poison is quickly identified […]

Give me a dragon now!

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

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Uprooted and Spinning Silver were two of the best books that I read last year, and they left me wanting more Naomi Novik. When I didn’t immediately purchase her new book this year, amazon offered me a collection of her first three Temeraire novels for $3. Obviously, I bought it.  The series starts with His Majesty’s Dragon, which is a kind of weird title since His Majesty has lots of dragons. In this alternate history, dragons exist and are used for warfare. It’s the early […]

Cozy mystery involving spies and Girl Scouts

Merit Badge Murder by Leslie Langtry

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I seem to have developed a thing for cozy mysteries involving spies. I’m honestly not sure how it happened. Was I looking for spy novels and thought these sounded cute? Or was I looking at cozies and decided spies would be a nice change from amateur sleuths? Merit Badge Murder is the first book in the Merry Wrath series. A CIA agent is forced into early retirement after being outed on national television. She changes her name Merry Wrath and settles in her family’s hometown […]

What if Cinderella met a god of death instead of a fairy godmother?

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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I was on hold for this book for months at my local library, and after having read it, I get it. I had a co-worker who said there was a difference between books and literature. At the time, I thought she was being snooty, but every now and then I read a book that makes me go, “Oh, so that’s what she meant.” Gods of Jade and Shadow is literature.  Casiopea Tun lives with her family in a small village in the Yucatán peninsula. Casiopea […]



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