Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“People always say that your wedding day is the happiest day of your life, but honestly, people should try solving murders more often.”

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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CBR18 Bingo: Joker – Vera is a wild card in the investigation around Malcolm’s murder, and shakes up the lives of the suspects out of the blue. After a dead man is found in Vera Wong’s teahouse, being rather unimpressed by the police’s efforts, Vera decides to investigate the death herself. Unfortunately, she finds herself liking all her murder suspects a little too much. A word to the wise: Don’t read this book while hungry. Vera cooks up veritable feasts throughout the book, and the […]

why do I have to wait so long to see the next installment :(

The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield by Claudia Gray

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CBR Bingo: Justice (which is served), although having just did my review for TKAM it is mildly more applicable there no? Okay first things first I think I speak for everyone when I say that I am just a BIT TIRED of the constant back and forth/two steps forward one step back nature of the relationship between Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney. Okay, fine, I vaguely understand why they are on some rocky footing at the start of this novel–Juliet in particular is dealing with […]

Some Bodies are None of Your Business, Pal

Defending Jacob by William Landay

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Bingo: Or. Father, the main character and narrator, tries throughout the book to convince the police that there is an option to his son as the killer. A month or so ago I decided to go on a tear of 12 mystery/thriller books one after the other. I wanted a break from some of the heavier stuff I read. I found some lists of top thrillers and blindly bought a bunch. I also found some traditional mysteries at the used bookstore. Well, I’m starting to […]

What’s so bad about expressing enthusiasm?

The Point! by Nasser Hussain

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The Point! by Nasser Hussain due early September 2026;  mostly “read” via an online reader copy. (My rating is an average of my feelings on the book, so actually it is a 2.5) After writing a draft of this review I read it again via a phyical finished copy. Didn’t change my mind, yet I just got a bigger giggle out of it. Also I read the publisher review for it and found the first line interesting. Which, I am glad I did not read […]

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

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First off, I can say that I have really enjoyed Harrow’s other book I have read, The Once and Future Witches and her short story which takes on themes shown in this book too, The Six Deaths of the Saint. The main reason why I gave this 4 stars though is that the first part of this book was slow. I was not really following what was going on and then once things started to click and we get some of the reveals. I do […]

CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”

A Trade of Blood (Shadow of the Leviathan, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Robert Jackson Bennett is on a mission to document the entirety of his own made-up world by creating unsettling, weird, fantastical murders that letting him explore it, and I am here for it. This time we’re exploring the complicated and fraught world of agriculture and how it intersects with capitalism, Romeo and Juliet-style. Also, FUNGUUSSSSS. ALSO! I had assumed that this would only be a trilogy, because his other three series are trilogies, but THERE WILL BE MORE! Maybe a lot more! (More than five, […]



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