Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR18
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • 2026 Registration
    • Suggest a Review
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

This Inevitable Ruin

This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman

July 6, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

I have now recommended Dungeon Crawler Carl to… six people directly? All six are on my wife’s down line so she’s doing well in this little cultural MLM. This Inevitable Ruin continues to escalate the emotion in serious ways. It would be difficult to discuss them without spoilers, so I am going to let this be another extremely short review. Let me just say: this is the book where Carl gets to feel feelings for a little bit. He’s spent so much time getting raked […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
· 0 Comments

The Eyes of the Bedlam Bride

The Eyes of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

July 5, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

I’m going to write an even shorter review than usual today because the fucking cat ran across my super nice mechanical keyboard, set some setting which disabled keys that I need, and so I’m writing on my backup keyboard, which is Dell garbage. The Eyes of the Bedlam Bride continues the trend of Carl stories absolutely ruling. The series increases in both intensity and excitement, new stakes are added, and it keeps getting funnier. Several fan favorite characters come into their own across this story, including […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
· 0 Comments

“And now it was time to get fucked by a robot to meet her unborn child.”

Margo's Got Money Trouble by Rufi Thorpe

July 4, 2025 by Nart 2 Comments

  A story about perseverance, forgiveness, and the answer to the question of what Pokemon is your dick  most like. Plot: Margo has been floating through life with little in the way of inter or introspection. At 20, she’s plowing her way through community college and her literature professor, though neither with any serious enthusiasm. Since her 37 year old prof was really confident about the pull out method, she winds up pregnant, and against every piece of advice, she decides to keep the baby. Why? […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: rufi thorpe

Nart's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: rufi thorpe ·
· 2 Comments

“There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd”

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

July 4, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Before reading the subject of this review, Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, I had previously read his Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. I greatly enjoyed all of these books, and can say the same for The Idiot. The story centers on Prince Lev Nikolayevitch Myshkin, called simply prince, who returns to Russia after spending years in Switzerland under the care of a doctor for his epileptic fits. Penniless, he first makes his way to a general who is married to a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

Inside the mind of madness

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

July 4, 2025 by NatalieH Leave a Comment

I love Iain Banks’ Science Fiction Culture novels, so at some point in the past, I picked up his debut novel The Wasp Factory, released in 1984. It’s not my usual genre (sort of a psychological horror, I think? It’s somewhat hard to pin down), so it’s languished on my shelves for quite some time. I’ve been making a concerted effort to cut down on my physical TBR this year (down to 300ish from 400ish at the beginning of January!) and this is a short […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Iain Banks

NatalieH's CBR17 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Iain Banks ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

“But for someone in need, she could always find something to spare. —there was always more of herself to give.”

A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

July 4, 2025 by Pooja 2 Comments

When magical seamstress Niamh is contracted to make the wedding clothes for a royal wedding, she’s determined to make her name and her fortune. But never in her wildest dreams does she think it’ll lead to political unrest, blackmail, and a romance with the groom – the prince of Avaland. Disclaimer: This book and I may not have been a great match, because the leads are both people-pleasers of the first water, and I am a very self-pleasing person who enjoys saying the word ‘no’ […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Allison Saft, ARC, audiobook, NetGalley, Romance, YA, Young Adult

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Allison Saft, ARC, audiobook, NetGalley, Romance, YA, Young Adult ·
Rating:
· 2 Comments
  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 346
  • 347
  • 348
  • 349
  • 350
  • …
  • 4076
  • Next Page »


Recent Comments

  • BlackRaven
    on CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly!
    I cheated and found the internet
  • BlackRaven
    on CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly!
    I tried, I failed, I went to the internet for the best
  • elisamaza
    on CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly!
    THIS ONE 😂
  • vega-table
    on CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly!
    Some things I have read and not written reviews for: Poetry collection mascarading as prose memoir mascarading a haunted house...
  • Jen K
    on CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly!
    Or incel, entitled man thinks he should be given things for free.
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission, Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2026 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in