Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

It started with death at the dinner party

Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn

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My reading of Deanna Raybourn’s new series led me to the Lady Julia Grey series, her previous historical mysteries featuring an intrepid heroine.  This book begins with death – Julia’s husband Edward suddenly keels over at the start of a dinner party, a seemingly natural tragedy.  Edward had a history of a weak heart, so it was assumed that was the cause of his death.  As it turns out, things are not as they seem and as Julia reaches the end of her year long mourning period she begins to believe he was murdered.  She reaches out to Nicholas Brisbane, […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:81 |

Loving your enemy

An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles

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This is book two in the Sins of the City series, set in Victorian England and it carries the tale forward that left the reader hanging at the end of the first book.  I won’t go into too much detail on that one here, as you can read my review on that one if you’re interested.  Nathanial Roy is a former lawyer, now crusading journalist who is helping his friend Clem with some legal battles.  In the course of his work, he meets Justin Lazarus, who is a con artist and so-called seer of London.  Nathanial is prepared to hate […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

If you can handle the multiple animals in peril, it’s a good read

Killer Weekend (Walt Fleming #1) by Ridley Pearson

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Ok I have to get this out of the way first.  Multiple animals are in peril in this book.  Some don’t make it.  I had a little bit of a hard time with some of it.  I’ll lay out the basics, and you can decide if you can handle it.  A dog dies, but we didn’t meet her first, and there are literally no details about it.  This one normally would’ve been rough for me, but because there aren’t any details, and it’s only brought up a few times throughout the book, I got over it.  A cat dies, and […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:51 |

Playing catch up (plus I want to complain about All the Missing Girls)

The Maid's Version + 14 more by Daniel Woodrell + 14 more

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The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell (3 stars) This is a very well-written but ultimately not very good story. By that, I mean that Woodrell’s writing is gorgeous — his descriptions of small town Missouri, his flashbacks to the 1920s — but the central mystery (who caused an explosion at a dance hall in 1929) doesn’t do much to grip the reader. I picked this up solely because I loved Winter’s Bone, but it definitely did not live up to my expectations. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (2 stars) This was some sappy shit, y’all. Zevin’s The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry was […]

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10/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:174 |

Are people really like this? Really? In real life?

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

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 So, immediately after reading The Break, I needed a palette cleanser – something a bit more mindless and light.  This hit the spot for that.   A fairly generic mystery that was entertaining, but it wasn’t a complete home run for me. The Lying Game is about four friends who are living their separate lives in England, all while hiding a secret that they have been lying about since they were in high school together.  When something threatens to expose their secret, they come together to protect their story and to support each other. I have a similar issue with […]

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10/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

Oops

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

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I forgot to review this book when I read it last month, so here’s hoping I can remember it well enough to write a review. It’s #6 in the Inspector Gamache series, a mystery series set in Quebec that I cannot recommend highly enough for those of you who like mysteries–but unfortunately Bury Your Dead was not my favorite entry in the series. Inspector Gamache is on holiday in Quebec City to recover from a case that ended badly. He’s staying with a friend, but becomes wrapped up in the investigation into the murder investigation of a local historian who’s […]

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10/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

Who Killed the Artist’s Mistress?

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

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This is the second book in the Veronica Speedwell mysteries, set in Victorian England.  Veronica, our heroine, is a spunky adventurist and lepidopterist who met up with Revelstoke Templeton (aka Stoker) in the first book.  Stoker comes from a noble family, but has been estranged from them for several years due to reasons he has kept to himself.  He’s also an adventurer who spent time in the Royal Navy, and now does taxidermy in his free time.  He and Veronica formed a strong bond solving the mystery of her true parentage, and while they are attracted to each other, there’s […]

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10/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:76 |

Let’s figure out why everyone keeps drowning themselves

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

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I have to admit that I really love my title.  It’s so conversational, and at the same time kinda shocking.  Anyway, now that I’ve complimented myself, on to the book.  I think it might be more like 3.5 stars, but that’s not an option unfortunately. This book took me a while to read.  Sometimes books take longer for me to read than others through no fault of their own, but due to my reading circumstances.  A Kindle book is always going to go faster than an actual hardcover book.  I read on my Kindle in bed every night.  I frequently […]

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10/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:49 |


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