Cannonball Read 18

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Kills Well With Others: Deadly Old Broads Part 2

Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn

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At this point I’m a bit fuzzy on the finer points because I finished this book about a month ago. We pick up with our protagonists about a year or so since we left them. They have gone their separate ways again for the time being, and they’re still struggling to get their retirement from the Museum sorted out. Naomi – the new or interim new head of the Museum approaches them with an off-the-books job tidying up a mess that a mole in the […]

“…your ambitions are a feast, Amina Al-Sirafi…”

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

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I’ve seen Shannon Chakraborty’s The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi on a lot of book lists as an entertaining fantasy novel not to miss, and it has been given good reviews here on CBR, too. I enjoyed it immensely and was excited to see that a sequel, The Tapestry of Fate, is coming out on May 12. Based on The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, I would imagine that several more novels will be forthcoming. If they are as imaginative and well written as this one, I […]

These characters have SO much in common, but their crippling insecurities may be the worst thing they share

While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

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3.5 stars Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book will be out on April 9th. Daisy Emmett is an excellent PR manager and has successfully managed a number of difficult clients, but trying to repair the image of famous romance author Caleb Miller, after he very publicly declared to the world that “happy endings are for fools”, might be her most difficult job yet. Their mutual dislike of one another started when they were […]

“No meaning–that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end”

A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck

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We can’t care about anything here. We can’t make a difference–all meaning has been subtracted, we don’t know where anything comes from or where it goes. There is no context for our lives.” Steven Peck’s A Short Stay in Hell is a horror book without the gore. A man named Soren dies of brain cancer in his 40’s and finds himself confronted by a lesser demon who tells Soren and some others that the only true religion is Zoroastrianism, and as none of them follow […]

“It was as though they hadn’t seen me, as though I was here, and yet not here.”

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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“You’re nobody, son. You don’t exist–can’t you see that?” Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is an electrifying study of a young Black man and his different experiences as he journeys through a racist society. The narrator, who is never named, starts the book telling the reader he lives in the sealed off basement of a Harlem apartment, the dark and cold offset by over 1,300 electric lights. The very first line of the book is “I am an invisible man.” In the beginning he recollects an […]

There is no Chinese Princess Anastasia

The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang

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The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang is about two mysterious women. Caroline Stanton is a rich orphan American living in China right before the 1912 fall of the Qing Dynasty. She met her not nearly as rich (but still rich) husband Thomas when he saved her during the Wellington railway disaster. Although she has mysterious memory gaps about the event. Together, they have money and live in Thomas’s uncle’s Shanghai mansion… or do they? No. Uncle Mason is a liar and he doesn’t own the […]



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