Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Colonies, Cults and Crimes

The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton

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I have the Harris County Public Library to thank for this recommendation.  Before jumping into The Colony, I have to confess, I wasn’t really aware that the Mormon Church had much of a significant presence in Mexico. But it turns out there a number of prominent  fundamentalist Mormon families … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: History · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Technically Not A Mystery, But I’ll Allow It

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen

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Perspective is everything. To many readers, this may very well be a mystery. Reading as a disaster bisexual, however, my take was very different. The mystery is no mystery to me as a queer person, and I'm willing to bet a silk pajama that every single queer person who reads the book can determine … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:16 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: ·

“Luck is an undependable commodity.”

Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon by Michael P. Ghiglieri, Thomas Myers

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Two veteran adventurers and employees who worked in the Grand Canyon compile the stories of all the many people who have died in the canyon and the diverse fates which have befallen them. I visited the Grand Canyon about a decade ago, and I remember being struck by the sheer immensity of the … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Beach Thriller by Jamie Day

Beach Thriller by Jamie Day

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. This was really bad. I don't even know what to say. I think the ending was laughably bad. The parts in between weren't great and the character development was non-existent. Day has done dual POV's before … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:47 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , ·

“Despite what you seem to think, it’s not hard to love you, Cynthie; it’s easy. It’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”

Let's Make a Scene by Laura Wood

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Cynthie Taylor needs some positive publicity, fast. Once it was revealed that not only was the film director she recently broke up with married, but his wife is pregnant, former good girl Cynthie is now seen as a manipulative home wrecker (the cheating director is obviously not getting the same … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Well gosh darn, dang it all to heck

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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We all know the trend: young women deliberately turning their backs on the modern world and cosplaying the rural homesteading lifestyle, where they grow their own veggies, bake their own bread, butcher their own chickens and make their own clothing. The lifestyle is then perfectly captured on social … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: , , , ·


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