Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The end of the world is here, but we’re still loving and living

Space Story by Fiona Ostby

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CBR16SweetChallenge #Exciting I have been trying to read Space Story by Fiona Ostby since I first heard about it. But something always stopped me.  I lost my online link, the book was out of stock, or something would get in the way. I finally was able o get a copy via interlibrary loan and learned it might have been worth the wait, or not. I am still not sure as this is an odd book. A good book, but odd. The oddness mostly comes from […]

More Irish Drama!

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

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The strengths of this book lie primarily in the reader’s ability to more or less relate to the main character. The narrator, titular Rachel, is in her 30s, married and pregnant. She’s a journalist living in England, originally from Ireland. In passing she learns about the serious illness of a former professor, and this prompts her to reflect on her life in her early 20s. In particular, she focuses on the period of her life as she completed college. In her final semester, she takes […]

January Romance Roundup

Snow Place Like L.A. by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

Mixed Signals by B.K. Borrison

Scarred by Emily McIntyre

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Time for my first Romance Roundup of the year. I read a LOT of romance, and some of them just don’t lend themselves to lengthy enough reviews, so I prefer to condense them into one big review a month. Snow Place Like L.A. by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone (Christmas Notch #1.5) This novella takes place between the first 2 books of the Christmas Notch series. I enjoyed the Hell out of those so the completionist in me had to listen to the audiobook of […]

Fever Dream on the Northern Atlantic

The Last One by Will Dean

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Her trip on the luxury ocean liner RMS Atlantica is supposed to be the vacation of a lifetime, but when Caz wakes up to find that every other person on the ship seems to have vanished, it becomes a waking nightmare instead. It’s a good thing I went on my first cruise before I read this book. Partly because it makes it easier to visualize the setting, and partly I probably would have been more anxious about wandering around its deserted decks or corridors late […]

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone

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If you’ve read Sierra Simone’s New Camelot series, her new novel is probably going to feel familiar to you. It’s called Salt Kiss and is set in the same world as New Camelot. (There is reference to two characters from that series, but it is not at all necessary for you to have read it to follow this book.) If you’re at all familiar with Simone, you already know to check the trigger warnings. They’re needed for this novel as well. With the exception of […]

Lightweight

Ninja Kid by Anh Do

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On our holiday recently, my son insisted we pick up this novel for bedtime reading. He informed me that his teacher had read it to his class in prep, and it was ‘really really seriously good stuff’. Knowing that it was the first in a series, I gladly picked it up. Ninja Kid is Nelson, a nerd (apparently?) who discovers on his 10th birthday that he is a ninja. This seems to mean that he has excellent refleshes, a sixth sense for danger, strength, and […]



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