Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Wolves rule

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

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My sister’s sister in law gave her this book to read, and then she recommended it to me. They read the hardcover version, but I totally recommend the audiobook version. The narrator is Australian, as is the main character. I think I’m a total sucker for a good accent, especially in a narrator. Anyway, let us start with some trigger warnings. There are animal deaths in this book. Going into a book about wolves, I knew that there would probably be some carnage. I asked […]

Speak (Graphic Novel)

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; Emily Carroll

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One of the immediate things that stands out in this book is that there are updates to the time period. This happens a lot in YA books, especially when they are more than 20 years old. In old Lois Duncan novels, someone has gone back to them and added some cellphones and internet searches here and there in weird little ways. In this book, most of those changes are less unnatural and often occur at the art level, meaning something will be present in this […]

Freedom

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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I think when I first this book, I was sort of in the haze of having read The Corrections a few times, and in the somewhat backlash to Franzen. Now, I feel like there’s been a kind of Franzennaisance. In this new world, his novels are a little more familiar and even with the middling reviews for Purity helped to create a stabilizing of the market, so to speak. Anyway, re-reading the novel now, I liked it a lot better. One of the elements that […]

The continuing adventures of Will and Kim

The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles

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CBR14 Bingo – Shadow (spies and all sorts of murky shenanigans throughout the story) This is book two in a series, and it really doesn’t work very well on its own. To start from the beginning, read Slippery Creatures first. Will Darling has settled more comfortably into his role as a London bookseller but has seen nor heard anything from the mysterious Lord Arthur “Kim” Secretan for several months. He has done his best to forget all about the man and get on with his life, agreeing to […]

“Clam jamming me won’t get you in these granny panties any faster, old man.”

Boss Witch by Ann Aguirre

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A grumpy heroine getting a happy ending. Plot: Picking up midway through the previous book, this time from Clem’s perspective, a witch hunter has arrived, quite dramatically, in the small town of St. Claire. Much like just about everything else, Clem has decided to take on the job of getting the witch hunter out of town, and without help. This is par for the course, as Clem has been the problem solver for the whole family her entire life, but she is also drowning in […]

I regret to inform you that ill-tempered women are as catnip to some men

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

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“Confounded kittens,” she grumbled. “What?” “Your eyes literally lit up. I’ve only read about that in books. I’ve never seen it happen.” “They did not,” he protested, but they probably had. He was actually pretty excited about the prospect of seeing kittens. ― Cat Sebastian, The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes After reading a couple of reviews on CBR14, this looked like it would satisfy my need for a charming, low-stakes romance. The delightful cover art didn’t hurt either. I burned through the first book […]



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