Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


KKK Demon Hunters

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

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Ring Shout is set in 1915 Georgia, where Maryse Boudreaux and her friends Chef and Sadie work as bootleggers by day, and demon hunters by night. But unlike their K-pop counterparts, this trio of demon hunters is after Ku Kluxes: terrifying, pointy-headed monsters that fill the ranks of the KKK alongside regular (also monstrous) Klansmen. Ku Kluxes feed on hate, and in Jim Crow-era Georgia, there is plenty of that to go around.  But with Chef’s explosives expertise, Sadie’s sharpshooting abilities, and Maryse’s magical sword, […]

Get the garlic….

Love Kills by Danilo Beyruth

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What do I want to say about the graphic novel Love Kills by Danilo Beyruth?  This book was majorly screwed up! I mean, I liked it, despite the ending being blunt, ending on a smack you in the face realization, then nothing afterwards, but overall everything works out well. Though, I would say things lend themselves to be more of a 3.5 and not “just” a three, as I was not a fan of the violent images in some cases, but still thought they set […]

I don’t know who wandered more: the book or me writing this review

Tongues, Volume 1 by Anders Nilsen

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Tongues, Vol. 1 by Anders Nilsen   I have NO idea what was read. The stories all bounce all over the place. The images are busy, the text mixes and gets lost in the illustrations. The images are colorless but are not black and white. The characters are unlikable, even Astrid, who might be the one that will save the world. Or destroy it. It’s still up in the air. There is nothing good and positive. Even The Prisoner has faults and he seems to […]

Who Made Us Monsters? Narrative Psychology and The Female Jewish Gothic

Odessa by Gabrielle Sher

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Gabrielle Sher’s Odessa started from her doctoral dissertation titled “Who Made Us Monsters? Narrative Psychology and The Female Jewish Gothic.” I assume it evolved a lot to go from academic writing to horror novel, but I think the question was answered. The book doesn’t explain much. It doesn’t have a historic context note, there are no explanations or translations for the many words that I believe are Yiddish. This works because Sher is very good at giving you enough context to figure. For example, you […]

An Interesting Experiment in Meta Fiction

Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

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In the summer of 1988 a serial killer began stalking the small town of Edgewood, Maryland. Young girls killed and mutilated, their bodies left on display, and zero evidence left behind by the killer. Richard Chizmar, a recent graduate from the University of Maryland, returns home in the middle of the spree just as a curfew has been enacted. As he prepares for his wedding and begins his writing career, he finds himself more entwined with the case than he would have thought possible. Between […]

Hooked From the Start

Where No Shadow Stays by Sara Hashem

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I’m not really a horror reader, but I loved Sara Hashem’s Scorched Throne duology so much that I decided I had to give this one a try. And I’m so glad I took the chance because it was great! I was hooked from the opening line: “No one has tried to kill me yet today.” So narrates main character Mina, an Egyptian American high school senior who recently returned from a visit to Egypt. Something dark came back with her, and whenever she is alone with someone, […]



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