Cannonball Read 11

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History of Those Who Have Left Us

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

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I went back and forth on this one. I think in the end that one of the story-lines that we get introduced to ends up making no sense and was just used to introduce a character who would become important later. Two of the case histories I thought were done very well. That said, I ended up not liking a good portion of the characters we meet except for Jackson and Theo. Everyone else…eh. I also don’t know if I liked the ending that much either. The pacing of the book was so slow too. Since we kept coming back […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:128 |

First Part Setting the Two Main Characters Was Great, Rest of Book Didn’t Work

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

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Well not too much to say about this one besides it was ultimately a disappointment. I thought I was going to get into a psychological thriller about tihe ins and outs of a marriage. I think in the end I didn’t like this book because I didn’t have sympathy for “the silent wife” or Jodi. She just passively lets everything happen to her and she lashes out here and there, but not in a big way. And the ending left everything up in the air. You don’t know what really happened or who was to blame and I just felt […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:127 |

Men who hate women, parts 2 & 3

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

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Last year I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as part of CBR10 Bingo and loved it. Happily, I finally got back to the library to check out the two follow-up novels, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. For about the first hundred pages of The Girl Who Played with Fire, I was skeptical. The book picks up with Lisbeth Salander hanging out in Grenada where she’s getting a little R&R, studying math equations, getting pissed off at herself for getting emotionally attached to Mikael Blomkvist, and also having sex with […]

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6/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

Featuring the fastest copy machine available

The Firm by John Grisham

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  This book did not age well. The Firm was published in 1991. It is a fast-paced legal thriller that was made into a 1993 movie starring Tom Cruise. If John Grisham was not writing the entire book based on the mental picture of Tom Cruise playing the main character, Mitchell McDeere, I will eat my shoe. The entire book is written as distinct scenes for some men to jaw at each other in manly ways and then a quick cut to another scene. Mitchell McDeere is graduating near the top of the class at Harvard Law and is approached […]

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6/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks

The Rumor by Lesley Kara

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Please note that I received this book for free via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on June 18, 2019.  So I liked the general idea on how a rumor can catch fire and burn innocent people. However, I think Kara didn’t go far enough with it. Also some of the book read as repetitive after a while with Joanna thinking everyone was the child killer Sally McGowan in hiding. And then we have the reveal (which was ridiculous by the way) and the book went downhill from there. I was disappointed […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:121 |

Two Types of Breakdown

The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

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I do have to say that I liked parts of the book. I think the biggest reason why I only gave it 3 stars was that Cass seemed beyond ridiculous and naive at times. Can we get a strong female character in a suspense book for once who doesn’t do things like go out into the dark in search of a killer? We women do have common sense. Also it didn’t make a lot of sense to me why she didn’t want to go to the police at first with what she knew. Finally, the ending went way too fast […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:120 |

A Supremacy of Dunces

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

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Here’s my problem with The Last Widow: I wish I could say it was implausible and over the top, and ten years ago it would have been, but unfortunately, it’s not, and that makes it a scary and gripping read, but not a particularly comforting one. There’s nothing in this book that hasn’t happened before, and it’s going to happen again, sooner rather than later. We all know it. Karin Slaughter certainly does; there is a bleak and cynical current that flows through this book; no heroism, but an accurate sense of doom. On a hot summer’s day in Atlanta, […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

I Need To Stop Reading “Thrillers”

Saving Meghan: A Novel by D.J. Palmer

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I really need to stop reading “thriller” novels, especially ones written by people with initials in their names, because I always end up disappointed. Also, a note to mystery/thriller/suspense writers: an ending so stupid no one could have possibly guessed it is not the same as a good twist ending. Basically if a novel is described as “twisty”, I can conclude by now that I’ll find the “twist” insultingly stupid. This was no exception. That being said, the book is certainly propulsive. I think that’s the problem with this genre: you of course want to know what happens next and […]

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6/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |


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