Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A book to experience, but you are not always glad you did.

Man-Eaters Volume 1 by Chelsea Cain

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I was not sure what Man-Eaters Volume 1 was going to be about by the cover. But since it was in the children’s/young adult section I figured it could not be too bad. Okay, maybe a few big cats or dogs or some funny-looking “scary” monster were going to attack people but nothing I hadn’t seen before. Just a thriller story. There was a “funny-looking scary monster” all right. It is called the Female Teenager. Chelsea Cain and various illustrators created a graphic novel series […]

Splashing into the Rivers of London

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

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I’d seen this author and series pop up from time to time in CBR, and my curiosity finally overcame my aversion to jumping into a series. How could I continue to ignore the siren call of that terrific cover?! I am ever-so-glad that I went ahead and judged a book by its cover, because I thoroughly enjoyed this police-procedural-gone-off-the-rails. It had all of the inner workings of the police bureaucracy that I, for some reason  find strangely enthralling. The officers had all of the spark […]

Sublime horror classic

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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This pandemic is giving me a chance to read some classics that I’ve never read before- silver lining!  Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley in 1816, when she was all of 18 years old (Lainey Gossip would call her a First Book Bitch although this was actually her second book…).  Frankenstein was Shelley’s entry into a horror story challenge between herself, her lover and soon to be husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend, Lord Byron. Despite what Hollywood might have you believe, Frankenstein is […]

“Don’t go, Bobby,” said my friend.

Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

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This is a horror novel that when it gets right down to it is pretty scary because of how subtle the actual terrifying moments of it are. It’s very much like being in a black room and a tiny amount of light slightly unveils the horrors in the room and even if your image of them are unclear and the immediate danger isn’t fully realized, it’s all the scarier. In addition, the mix of real world scary and fantasy scary intermix in convincing ways. The […]

Fun series, but not sure how far I’ll go into it.

The Stonekeeper's Curse (Amulet #2) by Kazu Kibuish

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Before the current events started happening, I took out a few graphic novels from my local library. One of those books was The Stonekeeper’s Curse the second book in the Amulet series.  I am still not OMG THIS IS THE BEST SERIES EVER, but this installment was stronger than the first. Where The Stonekeeper (Book 1) was there to set up the story, give the background and introduce you to the main characters, The Stonekeeper’s Curse has more action. It has more of a story […]

Rolling with my homies

How to Vex a Vampire by Alice Winters

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  How to Vex a Vampire by Alice Winters reads like a cross between a script for Will & Grace and an early Laurell K. Hamilton novel, with a side of True Blood thrown in for good measure. Honestly, I can’t decide if I love it or hate it. Maybe a bit of both. Finnigan is an enormous flirt who is apparently a wee little man blessed with the capability to make just about anyone like him. He’s also a human homicide cop who has […]



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