Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Elegantly written Edwardian fantasy, murder mystery, gay romance

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

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First of all, Thank you, again, llamareadbooks for gifting me this book in the Cannonball Book Exchange!  A book that combines several genres I enjoy was almost guaranteed to be a hit but it is the beautiful writing that makes this such a wonderful read. You look like a Turner painting and I want … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: , , , , , ·

“But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.”

The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1) by Agatha Christie

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This was a fun outlier in Christie's body of work, though it is actually one of her earliest published books. She doesn't normally do thrillers or espionage (and when she does it's often not all that great), or feature one-off main characters, or feature a narrative that has travel and adventure in … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , ·

My conflicted thoughts about SJM continue to be conflicted.

House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

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I've gotta say, this is related and unrelated to this book, I've been seeing quite a few status updates on Goodreads (the vast majority from people I don't follow) expressing pretty negative and dismissive opinions about romance and people who read romance that seem borderline misogynistic to me. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: , , , , ·

So many characters die in this book!

For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing

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This is one of those books that I randomly saw on the list of available mystery / suspense / thriller audiobooks list at my library.  I usually just search for audiobooks that are in English, "Available now", and fall into the horror, mystery, suspense, or thriller categories.  Those are my … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , , , ·

A voyage of outcasts.

Dragon Haven (The Rain Wild Chronicles, #2) by Robin Hobb

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Ultimately, I decided not to round up on this one because this book (and this series so far) just doesn't cut as deep as previous Hobb books have for me, though it made some really good progress on that, hence the 4.5 star rating. This is basically part two in what should have been one book, but was … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , , ·

“Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear.”

Night Shift by Stephen King

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Took me long enough to get through this one. But my brain was not in a great place when I started, and I had to wait to read a bunch of freaky-deaky stories until my brain felt better. Which it did over the weekend, and I zoomed through this. Stephen King's imagination is a wild place, especially … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Horror, Short Stories · Tags: , , , , , , ·


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