Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Hot Blood on Cold Ground

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

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Iris Yamashita’s City Under One Roof is the first book in the newish Cara Kennedy mystery series. Kennedy is an Alaskan peace officer, drifting through Alaska. She is drawn to the tiny town of Point Mettier when a local teen finds a severed hand and local law enforcement is stumped. Or, they claim to be. It’s off-season, and everyone in Point Mettier lives in the same building. So, whose hand is it? Someone in the building has to know. Kennedy quickly becomes stuck in town, […]

Her Maturity is Impressive

The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

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Best for: Those interested in hearing the first-hand accounts of children who grew up in the realm of ‘Mommy Blogging.’ Those interested in how someone can recover from public and private emotional abuse. In a nutshell: Shari Franke grew up as the eldest daughter in the ‘Eight Passengers’ YouTube channel run by her mother, Ruby Franke. Ruby is now in prison, and Shari is telling her own story. Worth quoting: “In this family, the only safe emotion was no emotion at all.” Why I chose […]

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

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You did it. You have defeated my contrarian nature and coerced me into reading Maas. It was fine l guess. Plot: Today’s Very Special Girl is a ruthless infamous assassin but don’t worry, she’s only ever killed for good people – you know, the kind that can pay for fancy assassins. Our Very Special Girl is coerced into a competition (to the death, of course) to decide who will be the Evil King’s blade by his super hot and not at all evil son who […]

Heartbreaking

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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Best for: Fans of the Hunger Games series. In a nutshell: This is the story of Haymitch Abernathy’s Hunger Games. The 50th one, the second quarter quell. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: I heard good things about it. Review: I didn’t read the last prequel, and couldn’t get through the movie – I just didn’t find it to be a good film. Maybe the book was better? But When I saw that this was getting good word of mouth, I knew I wanted […]

You’ll never like the way I break the laws you make.

Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis

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Hi! I’m going to need you all to go read this series so that I can get more books! I need a fully radicalized (corrupted? No, he can’t be corrupted, he must be radicalized) Rian. I need a Strom Fedor meltdown. I need more of Ada stealing things right under everyone’s noses. Maybe Strom Fedor can also die in a cheese explosion. I just need more stories in the Chaotic Orbits series. To clarify, no Last Chance to Save the World does not end on […]

“Surely sasquaches have refractory periods too.”

At First Spite by Olivia Dade

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Plot: Athena’s short-lived engagement has just ended, because her fiancé was convinced by his brother that they were a bad match. Rude. Also, maybe a little bit accurate, since he’s a doctor and she is sort of a hot mess that was relying on this marriage to buy her time to figure out her career and finances after her teaching job burned her out. Well, she might be out of money and resources, but she was not out of spite. She’d put a downpayment on […]



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