Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“Maybe I still haven’t become me. I don’t know how you tell for sure when you finally have.”

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

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This is one of those books I can appreciate more intellectually than feel in my gut, though I think I’m going to chalk that up more to the style than anything else. I wasn’t in the mood for a slow, thoughtful, book that is more traditionally literary in style than I usually prefer. This book is LONG as well, almost 500 pages. Which is on the high end for contemporary YA. Aside from my own style preferences, I have no complaints. It’s a beautifully written story about a girl coming of age in the 90s in the Midwest, and coming […]

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3/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

Sophomore Slump?

The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton

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Honestly I am always worried when a debut author puts their second book out. I always worry that I am comparing it too much to the first. However, since the first book by Clayton was the first book in this series, I can’t help but compare it. And I have to say that the second book didn’t work for me at all. I was bored and just kept waiting for something (anything to happen). This book didn’t expand the world the reader had found out about in book #1. There was barely any development to any characters. And then things […]

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3/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:78 |

A lack-luster follow up

Access Restricted (Word$ 2) by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

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I enjoyed All Rights Reserved last month and sought out Katsoulis’s follow-up Access Restricted only to be disappointed. I began reading this book almost 3 weeks ago when I was in Arkansas for a funeral but I only finished it this weekend when I realized I needed to turn it back into the library on Monday. Spoilers for All Rights Reserved~ At the close of the last novel Speth Jime, along with Kel, Henri and Margot, have disrupted the WiFi of their dome in order to give people the ability to communicate (literally) freely. This novel picks up right where we left off and […]

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3/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Good, but not great. Even with a hero modelled on David Bowie in Labyrinth

Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

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3.5 stars Liesl dreams of becoming a famous composer, but is left to write compositions for her talented younger brother to play instead. Her beautiful younger sister is set to be married to the most eligible young man in the village, while Liesl helps her long-suffering mother and bitter father run their inn, their days of musical success and glory behind them. Jealous of her sister’s beauty and brother’s opportunities, Liesl becomes careless and suddenly, it seems her sister has been enchanted by the goblins, and taken away by the Goblin King. Even worse, no one seems to even remember […]

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3/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Heavy Vinyl – not so heavy on plot but still fun!

Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva, Irene Flores

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Heavy Vinyl appears to have gone through some adjustments over its publication.  Its title was originally Hi-Fi Fight Club and then for some reason they changed the name of the record store it is set in from Vinyl Mayhem to Vinyl Destination. Both changes are better, but many of the web descriptions of the comics have the old names so that’s confusing. Anyhow, spoiler alert: it’s about a fight-club in a record store! Sort of. I haven’t read or seen Fight Club, but this seems to be more of a vigilante group than the Fight Club of Palahniuk (and later, […]

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3/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

The first three books of the Lunar Chronicles

Cinder (Book 1) by Marissa Meyer

Scarlet (Book 2) by Marissa Meyer

Fairest (Book 3.5) by Marissa Meyer

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Let me start out this review by saying SPOILERS BELOW!  After the first picture, all bets are off.  I can’t review these books without using details, because some of them get me feisty.  I actually wrote these reviews on paper last night because I had many #feelings.  I randomly found this series from my library through the Overdrive app.  I’ve listened to all three books that way.  Cinder is #1, Scarlet is #2, and Fairest is #3.5.  I’m on a waiting list for #3, but I figured that since Fairest is more a of a prequel / backstory, I could […]

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3/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

A completely unsatisfactory review of a good book.

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

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Contemporary isn’t usually my genre, but this was really well put together. A good follow up to The Hate U Give. This is one of those reviews that makes my review backlog pile up, because I’m having a hard time saying stuff about it. So I’m just going to wing it and live with the fact that my review will not be as good as I want it to be, or say what I want it to say (whatever that is? I don’t even know). I liked this book quite a bit, but not as much as I liked THUG. […]

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3/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Once there was a mermaid

The Magic Threeof Solatia by Jane Yolen

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Jane Yolen has been called America’s Hans Christian Anderson. It is an apt comparison. Most of her work is either for children or young adults, yet the work has that quality that can also attract adults. There is much going on there. Magic Three of Solatia functions in part as a reply to Andersen’s Little Mermaid. Not the Disney version with its happy ending but the dark original tale. In that one, the prince is, perhaps, not truly deserving of the mermaid’s love. Yolen looks at what comes next, both above and below the surface of the sea. It isn’t […]

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3/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:42 |


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