Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Agatha Christie, in the Library, with a Revolver

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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My mother got me into reading — specifically, Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey. This turned into a lifetime of love of reading fantasy and science fiction novels. My mother’s favorites, however, were always murder-mysteries and she had a special love in her heart for Agatha Christie. She’s read every book Christie published in multiple languages. She had the entire collection in French! Given all of that, it’s quite surprising that I had never read an Agatha Christie novel until recently and I’m so glad I did! These are the “cozy” mysteries I’m always looking for: mildly creepy, well written, and full of […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

Excellent book, God-awful cover. Seriously, Avon Marketing Department, WTF?

White Hot by Ilona Andrews

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This is book 2 in a trilogy and if you’ve not read Burn for Me yet, that’s where you really should begin. While you could begin the story with this one, you’ll get a better introduction to the story, characters and world-building if you start with book 1. It’s been a few months since the events of the first book, and Nevada has been practising her abilities, learning more about what she can do and how she can control them. She insists makes Augustine Montgomery agree to let her question a suspected serial killer of little girls, in order to […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:58 |

Lacking Evil-Geniusness

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

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I should have seen it coming. The first of this series was a best-seller, and I didn’t think it was that great. The second installment was also a NYT best-seller, and I figured maybe this one will be better. I was wrong. It was not better; if anything, Moriarty was worse than The House of Silk. I can at least understand why people were interested in the book. They premise involves what happens immediately after Reichenbach Falls to both Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, a time-frame Conan-Doyle never really filled in, and there’s a pretty good twist at the end that […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

A Tana French wannabe

False Mermaid by Erin Hart

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This is a mystery starring a bunch of Irish people with a taste of the possibly-supernatural thrown in. It reads like Tana French wrote it when she was in eighth grade, before she learned to actually be good. Nora’s sister Triona was murdered five years ago. She suspects her sister’s husband Peter, but the rich golden boy was never charged, and the murder is still unsolved. Nora fled home to Ireland to recover, but returns to her family’s relocated home in the States when she learns that Peter is getting remarried in five days. She wants to solve her sister’s […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

More Harry Magic

White Night by Jim Butcher

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I read the first in Jim Butcher’s new series and kinda liked it, so I figured I’d check out his other stuff. I read the first Dresden novel, and though it was only ok. Then I saw that multiple people were saying that the Dresden series only gets good after about book 4. My local library does not have the entire series thus far, and the branch near me does not have all of the book in the order I might want them (chronologically). So I’ve been reading them a bit out of order. This seems to work out ok, […]

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6/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Sanderson does detective fiction with a sf twist.

Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

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I swear, one of these days Brandon Sanderson will write something that I dislike—something that is boring or trite or that just plain doesn’t work—but that day is not this day. This day that son of a gun has written yet another clever, entertaining story for me to four or five star. And this time he takes on detective stories! With a fantasy twist, of course. In the near future, some sort of supernatural event has reshaped the world, and made it possible to recreate exact, life-size replicas of entire days. It’s left vague why this ‘technology’ was actually created, […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

You’re gonna love whenever they make this into a tv series

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

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So I have to admit I don’t know that this book (series) is for everyone. There’s a conversation I had or something I read or heard about the difference between a puzzle and a mystery. A puzzle is designed to be solved and the pieces and clues necessary to do so are all available. And so whether you’re going to an Escape the Room or playing a Resident Evil game or reading an Agatha Christie novel, you’re enmeshed in an a puzzle or series of puzzles. A mystery is more of a vague thing. It’s mysterious because it doesn’t have […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:245 |

More fun than the DaVinci Code and at least as plausible

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

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In our house, we tend to purchase hard copies of most of the books we read, as opposed to, say, going to the library or downloading digital versions. So I wish I could say I bought Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore in a quaint neighborhood bookstore, nestled between an independent coffee house and and an artisanal cheese shop. The truth is, though, that I bought it online during a “half price on used hardcovers” promotion. Then again, since this tale merges a world steeped in tradition with the high-tech sector, perhaps my path to acquisition was perfectly appropriate. In Mr. Penumbra […]

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6/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

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