Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

An Interesting Experiment in Meta Fiction

Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

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In the summer of 1988 a serial killer began stalking the small town of Edgewood, Maryland. Young girls killed and mutilated, their bodies left on display, and zero evidence left behind by the killer. Richard Chizmar, a recent graduate from the University of Maryland, returns home in the middle of the spree just as a curfew has been enacted. As he prepares for his wedding and begins his writing career, he finds himself more entwined with the case than he would have thought possible. Between […]

The Outsiders

She Who Became the Sun: The Radiant Emperor Duology Book One by Shelley Parker-Chan

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Beginning in 1340s China, She Who Became the Sun opens with a 10 year old girl, never named, living in utter poverty in a small village. She has already lost her mother and several siblings to starvation. The girl, her father and an older brother named Zhu are the only survivors. Zhu was meant to be sent to a monastery when he was old enough, and a fortune teller predicted greatness for him, but for the little girl he predicted, literally, nothing. Yet the girl […]

How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

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Format in which I consumed this book: audiobook Did I like it/love it/hate it? Loved it What’s it about? Helen is a successful YA author whose book series is being turned into a tv show. She will be one of the show’s writers despite the fact she has no television experience. Grant is one of the head writers on the show. He knows Helen from high school, but not for good reasons. Grant happened to be driving the vehicle that Helen’s younger sister threw herself […]

Broadway Through the Decades

Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway by Michael Riedel

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Fittingly for a book about Broadway, Razzle Dazzle takes a big swing. It’s an incredibly ambitious project, covering a wide span of territory, in time if not geography. Geographically, Riedel’s main focus is on a slice of West 44th Street known as Shubert Alley. That’s where the Shubert Organization, owners of seventeen Broadway theaters, conduct their business. Founded as a family business by Sam Shubert and his younger brothers Lee and J.J., the company had many up and down periods under their control, which formally […]

Could Not Stop Reading It

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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Rating: 4.5 In a nutshell: Natalie is a tradwife influencer with five kids and one on the way. She lives on a farm and posts on social media about her life (keeping the two nannies and many farmhands off screen, of course). One morning she wakes up and finds herself still on the farm, but her children are different and it appears to be some time in the 1800s. Is she dreaming? Is she part of some sort of reality show? What is happening? Best […]

The (No Spoilers) Spoils of Poynton

The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

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The Spoils of Poynton … should have been a short story rather than a novel. One can (almost) see the whole plot in the first few chapters. The simple set-up is this – Mrs. Gereth has lovingly and carefully collected art and antiques her entire adult married life with her husband. After his death it is discovered that Mr. Gereth has bequeathed the whole kit and caboodle, along with the stately home she has lived in her entire married life, to their only son Owen, […]



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