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.

 

William Shakespeare lives up to own reputation

Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare

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Cbr18 Bingo – Clown: it’s about royal succession. I started Requiem of the Rose King by Aya Kanno, knowing it was inspired by Shakespeare’s histories and knowing I have a bad habit of abandoning books to do background research. Henry VI, Part 3 is the end of the Henry VI trilogy, and it drops you into the storm with a lot of characters giving a lot of exposition, which is that Henry (Lancaster) is the king and Richard (York) thinks he should be king and […]

It’s true, they do do that

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

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We Solve Murders is the first book I read this year, and still the best. It’s by Richard Osman, writer of the Thursday Murder Club series (which I have since started, and which I also like, but not as much). It’s also probably the first of a new series but so far the only entry. The central pair of sleuths here are a father- and daughter-in-law, which is at least fresh. The daughter-in-law is a high-class bodyguard who’s protecting a super-successful later-in-life author whose main […]

It Serves Me Right

The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier

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Bingo: Craft. The killer sees his murders as his carefully honed craft. I have no one to blame but myself. After a relatively scathing review of Jennifer Hillier’s Jar of Hearts, I claimed that was it for thrillers for a while. So what did I do? That’s right, purchased another of Jennifer Hillier’s books, The Butcher. And it was worse than the first one. This book is not about discovering who the serial killer the Butcher is. We find out right away: it’s retired chief […]

I am Patient 6

The Dead Of Summer by Ryan la Sala

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If you’ve finished Widow’s Bay and are looking for more of that ‘the next Martha’s Vineyard and definitely not cursed’ vibe, then Dead Of Summer is the book for you! Ollie Veltman and his mother are heading home to the island of Anchor’s Mercy for the best summer ever. How could it not be when the tourists love the queer friendly island culture (it’s basically Provincetown) and beautiful sandy beaches. Ollie and his friends know that something more is deeply wrong with the island but […]

CBR BINGO: Craft—Author writing fanfiction of her own book!

The Sixth Faction (The Sixth Faction, #1) by Veronica Roth

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This is a four star book but I’m giving it an extra .25, because I can now! And because I was so into this when it’s been so hard for me lately to really be into and finish new books. I let my curiosity get the better of me with this one. I was really into Divergent when it was first published, and then the second two books devolved into something very disappointing, which at the time made me angry, but I just don’t think […]

Lazarus- one of the best sci fi graphic novels of the last 10 years

Lazarus by Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

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Lazarus is a coming of age story for a young woman named Forever Carlyle who is questioning her identity. It is set in a bleak future a number of decades from now after the current world order has broken down, possibly due to climate change. Sixteen families each control the territory, resources, and technology in their part of the world, as per mutual agreement, though each family has their own technological strengths and may govern their territory through differing methodology. The Carlyle family rules the western half […]



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