Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Dark Olympus – Books One & Two

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

Electric Idol by Katee Robert

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Long story short – these are great, and you should read them!  A rare romance series where I was invested in the world building as much if not more than I was in the One True Pairing. Neon Gods is a take on the Hades & Persephone myth, set in what is essentially modern day New York or Chicago.  The Underworld is the wrong side of the river.  A cabal of The Thirteen “Gods” rules.  A lot of these are legacy roles – there must […]

I don’t understand why they adapted this for TV

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

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I honestly struggled to read this book.  I couldn’t even get myself to look down at it as a distraction when I was on the treadmill.  I just felt no connection to the characters, for at least 80% of the book. I’ve read a couple of Slaughter books before this and found them quite enjoyable, but the pacing of PoH is all over the shop.  We’re dropped into Andy’s life without consideration for the fact that just because her mother loves her, doesn’t mean a […]

Wow, I did NOT like this

Victim Without A Face by Stefan Ahnhem

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This book was recommended to me by my mother, which is the only reason I finished it.  I am so over Scandi fiction.  Women seem to always be Madonna/Whore, and all the power dynamics (particularly in the workplace and police force) are expressed via sexual domination, harassment, or outright assault. This book was written to have the bullied character be killing all his tormentors, then someone – maybe an editor – suggested that this had all been done before, or was too obvious. So they […]

Local Booksellers Know Best (Part Three)

Stone Town by Margaret Hickey

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This is a rare fail from the local bookseller!  Recommended by the same bookseller who sold me These Hollow Vows, this was described as “My boss who loves Crime Fiction said this was really good.” It is apparently the second mystery featuring the detective protagonist, but I honestly don’t care enough to go back and catch up on the first book (I don’t even care enough to go back and look up his name).  This book was not compelling enough to overcome my Aussie fiction […]

I adored this book, but also wanted to throw it at the wall

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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How is it possible for me to have loved and hated this so, so much?  I’m utterly satisfied by the resolution, but at the same time, I want to throw it at the sliding glass door in the dining room. I’ve got a list of things that have never happened in tennis – the Aus open at Christmas?  “The game is Soto’s.”  Argh!  How has TJR researched what it’s like to play tennis well enough to be totally viscerally realistic, at the exact same time […]

“Declan had put his identity crises on hold multiple times for the greater good. Matthew had only been asked to do it once.”

Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

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This is NOT the place to start if you’re not caught up. Begin either with the start of this trilogy, Call Down the Hawk, or with the start of the previous series (in which Ronan is an essential character), The Raven Boys. This book kicks off a little while after the rather dramatic cliffhanger that the previous book left us with. Ronan and Hennessey are fugitives from the Moderators, learning new and helpful tricks to deal with their mysterious hunters from the enigmatic Bryde. According […]



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