Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A promising debut cozy fantasy romance that didn’t quite fully hit.

Letters from the Last Apothecary by Bita Behzadi

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Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House | Hay House LLC for the Audio ARC. It hasn't affected the contents of my review. This is a promising debut by Bita Behzadi, and I will be reading further books from her, but this one had some issues that mean I can't give it a full four stars. Mostly, … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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I really wanted to love this one, but it ended up not working out for me. That does not mean I won't be reading this author again in the future. This book showed a lot of promise, it just kept hampered I think by Mandanna not breaking this up into two novels. I really wanted to know more about … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:45 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: , ·

“Age would have taken her if they’d just had the sense to leave well enough alone.”

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence

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More fantasy with older protagonists please! With Daughter of Crows, Mark Lawrence is giving us a new trilogy—one that is not meant to be tied back to his previous works. Despite this, I thought we might end up covering some old ground when I first read the synopsis: a magical academy that exists … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·

A made-for-social-media mystery

Strange Houses by Uketsu

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Strange Houses was the first book I read this year, back in January, and it has taken me entirely too long to just sit down and jot down my thoughts about it. Part of it is because I was very disappointed with how promising the premise was and how it fully deflated by the time I got to the end, so … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , ·

Needs More Claude Rains

The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong

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All I knew about this book before picking it up was that it had been adapted into a movie starring Claude Rains. I caught part of that movie on TCM one time and it looked intriguing so I thought I would check out the book. However, the novel is unfortunately really a very silly little thriller, … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: ·

Hello Perry ! It’s Been a Minute.

The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom by rle Stanley Gardner

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Back to the curious mid-century rules of divorce, especially in a community property state like California.  No-fault divorce did not yet exist, so if either party wanted to get out of the deal fast, they had to file in the state of Nevada, and even then there were certain rules regarding … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , ·


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