Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Class and Murder in England

The Good Liar by Denise Mina

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I’m not sure how I first heard of The Good Liar (2025) by Denise Mina, but I probably saw it on some end-of-the-year-best-novels list. Mina seems to be a pretty prolific writer, but she was new to me. The Good Liar is a thriller/murder mystery that takes place in London. On the whole, I found this book well written and interesting to read. However, I’ve found I’m not too into murder mysteries these days. I’m finding them a little too dark and sometimes unrealistic. Claudia Atkins O’Sheil is a […]

Technically Not A Mystery, But I’ll Allow It

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen

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Perspective is everything. To many readers, this may very well be a mystery. Reading as a disaster bisexual, however, my take was very different. The mystery is no mystery to me as a queer person, and I’m willing to bet a silk pajama that every single queer person who reads the book can determine who the killer is almost immediately. Why? How? If you know, you just know. (I could be wrong, obviously. Queer folks aren’t a monolith. But I’ll still take the bet every […]

Beach Thriller by Jamie Day

Beach Thriller by Jamie Day

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. This was really bad. I don’t even know what to say. I think the ending was laughably bad. The parts in between weren’t great and the character development was non-existent. Day has done dual POV’s before and made it work, and this one just felt lackluster because Jade’s character was there for twist purposes honestly. And I felt like Holly was non-existent though she was the other POV […]

Marion by Leah Rowan

Marion by Leah Rowan

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. The first part 30 percent of the book I thought was really good, but then it started to just kind of spiral and I didn’t believe anything that was happening. After a while it just felt like Rowan wanted to keep upping the kill count, no matter how absurd it started to get. I also didn’t buy the ending even a little. For something that was supposed to […]

“The Next Right Thing”

Gigs by Mark Mosedale and Si Smith

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Right now, I really dislike Mark Mosedale, Si Smith,Top Shelf Productions, and the person who sent me the reader’s copy of Gigs by Smosedale and illustrated by Smith. I dislike you because you made me feel all the emotions at once. You made me unable to put my reader copy down. You made me want to finish before it comes out mid-June 2026 so I can get it on release day, stand at the front doors and tell customers, “You ain’t leaving until you buy […]

Up up and sorry please go away….

Super Roomies: Lake of Slime: A Star Chapter Book by Jarrett Lerner

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I found a book that happens to be by the author and illustrator Jarrett Lerner that I was not the audience for and therefore, I am not a fan of. Please don’t get me wrong, I appreciate and admire the time and effort that goes into creating any book, in fact, I’m envious as I couldn’t begin to know where to start to do what authors do. It’s just not a book for me. That does not mean I’ll stop reading Lerner, far from it. […]



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