Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Entertaining but a Little Too Confusing

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

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I read this as a buddy read, which is always a fun way to approach a book, and this allowed me to be confused with someone else, instead of just on my own. Yay! While I liked the story, the time travel component was confusing in a way that might have just been me, but might have also been that it wasn’t well-explained. So basically, I don’t know if the problem was the book or me. We start in present day, where June Farrow has […]

An intriguing mystery revealed in an unintriguing way

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

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Me and my spouse have a Christmas tradition of buying each other a book. We generally try to find something that we think the other would like but might not be something they would usually pick out themselves. The Unmaking of June Farrow was my pick for her this year. Not to pat my own back, but I nailed it. She gave it five stars on Goodreads after finishing the whole book in two days. While we are both consistent readers, it is unusual for […]

“We were salt and sand and sea and storm”

Namesake by Adrienne Young

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I’m still loving this YA pirate girl trend, so of course I was excited to get back to Fable’s world. Also, I adore how the covers form Fable’s face! This is the second in the duology, and can’t be read as a standalone, so this review will contain spoilers for the first book. “We were salt and sand and sea and storm. We were made in the Narrows.” At the end of the last book, things were finally looking up for Fable – and then […]



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