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.

 

Terrible the first time through, amazing on re-read

Blindsight by Peter Watts

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This book was so good, I read it twice. And I don’t mean, I read it years ago and wanted to read it again, like LittlePlat mentioned in their review (which is what got me to pick up this book!). No, I read it (or rather, listened to it) about a week ago, finished it feeling I hadn’t retained much, and then immediately re-read it. On the first go, I was constantly confused about what was going on and who the various characters were. I […]

Why did someone tell me I’d hate this?

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

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I was quite worried when starting this book because Alice Oseman is primarily known for romance (especially the Heartstopper series), and I’m not a fan of romance books. Also, my brother loves this book and Oseman’s work in general, and when I told him I was going to read this, he told me that I would hate it, but I still read it because it fit the bingo category perfectly (and then forgot to review it for bingo). Radio Silence is the story of Frances […]

The Fraud really might be one

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

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I’ve heard a lot about Zadie Smith over the years. I was gifted a copy of White Teeth on my 13th birthday courtesy of an overeager salesman. I had high hopes at the time because the only other person I knew who had read it, LOVED it. She also happened to be five years older than me and had already transitioned into a Full Fledged adult. I didn’t get through the first chapter. I have always meant to go back to White Teeth. At the […]

Gotta let it burn

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

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With Cait Corrain back in the news, figured it was really time for me to write this review already! For those less terminally online, our story didn’t start in December but that is when it become a scandal and Booktwitter found out that a debut author scheduled for a 2024 release with some decent positive buzz had been review bombing fellow 2024 YA debuts with fake Goodreads accounts while giving her own book positive reviews (which is one of the reasons it caught the attention […]

Is the kid traumatized or murderous?

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

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I was excited when I heard about Sarah Pekkanen’s new book House of Glass, since I’d read several of her collaborative novels with Greer Hendricks and found them to be excellent thrillers. I wasn’t sure, at first, how I felt about House of Glass. It took me a few chapters to get into it, and I’m not entirely sure why. But once I did get into it, I was hooked. I read this in a single day, that’s how much I didn’t want to put […]

Holding out Hope for some intrigue

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

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For the second book in the series, I’m not optimistic. It took me almost a month of picking it up and putting it back down to finally complete Crown of Midnight. Most of the story felt tired. The love triangle, the deceit, even the rebel storyline couldn’t keep my attention for very long. I fear this series may have just killed off the most interesting character so far. If it weren’t for Fleetfoot, I may have put it down right then. I can see the […]



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