Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I’m looking for truth. Je church la vé·ri·té”

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

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CBR 14 BINGO: Shadow, because it deals with shedding light on the truth, which is not always what it seems Code Name Verity has been sitting patiently on my TBR for close to 10 years (having first been published in 2012). I snatched it out of a Little Free Library and thought it would be the perfect entry for the Shadow category in this year’s bingo. Reviewing this novel without giving away any spoilers is a little difficult, but not impossible if I focus on […]

Hold On Tight and Don’t Look Back

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, Becky Cloonan

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To put it as clearly as possible… There is something wrong with you and we are going to fix it. I’ve been having kind of a Danger Days summer. This following my Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge spring and my Black Parade winter. What can I say, when I discover a band I am sometimes prone to musically hyperfixate. So the thing about this review is that it is taking quite a lot of self restraint to keep it as a review of the book […]

What if We Fell in Love, as a Bit?

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

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After a spectacularly bad first date, Elle and Darcy assume they will never see each other again. Then both of them have run ins with family where they are once more quizzed about the failures of their love lives. So Darcy hatches a scheme. What if they agreed to fake a relationship for a few months to prove to their respective families that they were in fact capable of doing more than just failing at their personal lives? Surely that would solve all their problems, […]

It’s no Heartstopper

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

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I read the barebones ebook, so no added illustrations, which is why I say the characters of Nick and Charlie should be kept to graphic novels only. They lose so much of their luster without the adorable illustrations. That and limiting herself to fewer words in the graphic novels helps, I feel, as it focuses things a lot better. In Nick and Charlie, it feels like the quality of the writing fades in and out, like one moment it’s on par with Solitaire (which she […]

“Just the same, Caroline, I think you should accept the fact you don’t really know the truth. I wonder if anyone does, or ever will.”

Silversword by Phyllis A. Whitney

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CBR 14 Bingo: Shadow In this book, the past casts long shadows, entangling the main character even in the present. Caroline Kirby, fresh off a divorce, returns to her childhood home in Hawaii, to the mother she had thought long dead and the mystery of her father’s death in a sacred volcano crater. I do like a certain flavor of vintage suspense books, with their gentle pace and their deep dark secrets. Here, the author set us up with a long ago mystery to solve, […]

Levi…*heart eyes*

Fangirl, the Manga. Vol 2 by Rainbow Rowell, Sam Maggs and Gabi Nam

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4.5 stars CBR14 Bingo: Bodies (Cath and Levi become a lot more aware of each other’s bodies in this volume – not like THAT. Get your mind out of the gutter!) Cath has started getting more comfortable at college and with her classes, but she still finds it difficult to reconcile the fact that her twin, Wren, is having such a great time without her. Wren is embracing the party lifestyle and seems to spend a lot of evenings out drinking with her roommate. Meanwhile, […]



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