Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Let’s take this to the neck level

The Confessional by Paige Hender

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Recently I entered a “Grab a Galley” sweepstakes thingie and I have been honored to win a few that I really wanted. But one of them I was on the fence about putting my name in for. This was The Confessional by Paige Hender. But (and I know one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover) the cover was calling me. Which might not be a good thing since it is about vampires. Picture it: New Orleans, 1922. Cora Velasquez is a fairly newly turned […]

And this is how the end begins

Countdown by Mira Grant

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This is one of many novellas that Mira Grant (also known as Seanan McGuire) has written to flesh out her Newsflesh trilogy – or her version of a zombie apocalypse. As a result, I would definitely not recommend this as the entry point even though this is chronologically first and goes back to the very beginning, explaining the circumstances that led to the beginning of The Rising. She had already introduced these ideas in the main trilogy but here goes into the details, introduces the […]

Indigenous family demons

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

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White Horse intrigued me with its mysterious cover. It follows Kari, an indigenous woman living in Colorado who is haunted by her past. Or rather her lack of a past because her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Her dad was stricken by grief and ended up in a car accident. Kari spent much of her life resenting her mom and being a caretaker. After some struggles with drugs, she has gotten her life together.  She hangs with her best friend and cousin Debby, […]

I Was a Teenage Slasher (or when the book title is so great you need to make it the title of the review)

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

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Set at the very end of the 80’s (1989) in Lamesa, West Texas, this book is exactly what the title says it is.  It’s about a slasher (think Ghostface from Scream, or Michael Myers from Halloween and so on) who also happens to be a teenager.  The story is told by Tolly, the slasher of the title, as he explains what happened over a few weeks in 1989.  Tolly didn’t wake up one morning and choose violence, or well he did, but it was only […]

“…and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don’t understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors better left closed. “

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

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A story about Windhollow Faire a fictional British folk band, who in the 1970’s England,  rented an ancient and super creepy country house so they could lock themselves down and record an album.  And oh, the text lets us know what an album Wylding Hall (named naturally after the home they were recording in) was, it was the one that made the band capital F famous.  But it came at quite the cost, as the groups lead singer vanishes into the house and is just […]

A different kind of Tingle

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

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Chuck Tingle is the renouned author of such classics as: ‘Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt’, ‘Bigfoot Pirates Haunt My Balls’, and ‘Space Raptor Butt Invasion’… I can’t even write this with a straight face. Let’s just say: Tingle seems to be quite a character! Camp Damascus is my first foray into his writings, and I have to say, I was won over. In fact, I was (at times) blown away by the beauty of his writing. He’s deft at painting a picture […]



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