Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


My Pen is Dry, The Door is Open, and Something is Waiting

Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry

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This is a modern novel that strikes the perfect feeling of a Gothic novel in the style of Poe or Shelly. It is eerie and creepy with a ton of atmosphere and most of the fear and horror coming from not jump scares, but just that feeling that something is going to happen. Also, the monster is the humans. It’s always the humans… but not always int he way you think. Fair warning, I don’t give any major spoilers ahead, but this is a very […]

You probably don’t want this, actually.

You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

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Remember ‘Cat Person’? The viral short story published in The New Yorker last year that literally everyone you know sent to you with the message ‘Oh my god, you HAVE to read this!’? Well the author, Kristen Roupenian, has published a collection of short stories with the tempting title ‘You Know You Want This’. I heard about the book via a podcast interview with the author herself. It centered on Roupenian’s shock and amazement at the juggernaut that Cat Person became, and her new book […]

DNF at 10 Percent

They Thirst by Robert McCammon

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I did not finish this at 10 percent. I got nothing to say besides the writing hurt my head. I either love Robert R. McCammon or I don’t. This is definitely one of the ones I don’t love. There is too much thrown out and none of it makes much sense. This is a shame though because the prologue was so freaking good. And then when it moves to LA I just started to feel overwhelmed. Since I only got up to 10 percent I […]

Apparently I Am Not Fond of Phantoms

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I tried very hard to get through this book and was very relieved to get to the last page. I didn’t enjoy this at all and thought the melodramatic “Phantom” was awful and the love triangle between him, his love Christine and Christine’s love Raoul was a bit much for me. I have to say the main reason why I gave this 2 stars was that Leroux definitely […]

First of 3 potential Halloween reads

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

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I had to go back through old reviews to see if I’d done this one before, and it turns out that 1) I seem to have done the rest of the series but not this first novel, and 2) a novel from this series was close to my first ever Cannonballer review (third one I think). Good times. I decided to re-read this for 2 reasons: 1) I wanted to do a Halloween read that was not Cassidy Blake 2 because I’m saving that for […]

I thought he went to the gun show.

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

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Newest collection of stories by Joe Hill, including two previously published and co-written stories with Stephe King “In the Tall Grass” and “Throttle”. “Throttle” is a remix of the Richard Matheson short story “Duel” and “In the Tall Grass” has recently been made into a Netflix original film. So, this collection covers about 10 years of story writing, and this kind of disparate path is indicative of a variable quality of these stories. A few of them are great. I thought “Faun” in which a […]



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