Cannonball Read 18

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The Sleepless Nights of the Boy with No Eyelids and Other Twisted Tales by Marmalade Atkinson, Alex Thompson and G P Taylor

Say Hello to Mr. Wallaby! Volume 1 by Marume Goshika

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Before I started to write a review for The Sleepless Nights of the Boy with No Eyelids and Other Twisted Tales by Marmalade Atkinson, Alex Thompson and G P Taylor, I said to myself, “I have read too many books!” (Who am I and will the real Raven stand up???). You see, I couldn’t find another book I thought I had written a review for and I wasn’t sure how to start this review, as it was blending into another book (a third book) I […]

Into the belly of the beast

Wolf's Belly by John August and Simón Estrada

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Wolf’s Belly by John August and Simón Estrada (illustrator) is a fairly intense, unique but also familiar, graphic novel. It has a narrator voice, but is told from the perspective of the girl with the red cape (we always forget her name). So, to make sure she gets her due, we learn her name is Lu (Little Red Riding Hood), and in a turnabout, her parents and many siblings have no names. They have actions or a personality (her mother is a great warrior, her […]

Mild Twists

Solitude Creek by Jeffrey Deaver

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Bingo: Repair. The heroine has to repair many things: her reputation with the police department, her relationship with her kids, her love life. A few decades ago I was hooked on Jeffrey Deaver’s books. They were suspenseful and filled with amazing twists I never saw coming. I read a few books of his a year or two ago and they weren’t that great. He had some absurd methods of death, including a guy being eaten by a rogue escalator. Still, in my Kindle-buying binge of […]

The Witch by Fredia McFadden

The Witch by Fredia McFadden

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I really have to stop hoping that McFadden gets back to The Housemaid success in terms of her writing. I find myself so bored with her latter works. And now there is a blurb in the front that we won’t read about sex and other things since she wants her family to be able to read the books. Maybe that’s where things have gone wrong. This was boring from beginning to end and honestly just huge plot holes abound (per usual). Not much to say […]

A Copycat Serial Killer in a 90s Midwestern Noir

Scream City by Hannah Morrissey

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I’ve been a fan of author Hannah Morrissey since the debut of Hello, Transcriber, the first book in her Black Harbor series. She uses the term “Midwestern Noir” to describe her books – kind of like Scandi noir in tone, but set in rusting cities of the American midwest. While Morrissey’s Black Harbor books are cold and grimy, the organic warmth of characters trying to maintain their humanity always comes through. The humanity is what keeps me coming back – some human connection in a […]

Now This is How You Do It

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

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Bingo: Wheel. The mystery is wheels within wheels. I have enjoyed a couple of books by Peter Swanson, and Nine Lives is another strong mystery/thriller. Nine strangers are mailed a list with their names on it, alongside eight others. Everyone receives the same list. There is no return address or any other indicator who the sender is. Before you know it, they are murdered one by one. Law enforcement, including an FBI agent who is on the list, can’t figure out what the listees have […]



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