Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The Perfect Marriage: Meh.

The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

by Leave a Comment

Meh. That’s about my whole review.  But in the interest of following CBR rules, here we go.  Adam and Sarah Morgan are a couple in crisis. They are growing apart thanks to Sarah’s demanding job as a lawyer and Adam’s failure to publish a quality follow-up novel to his first one. And Adam is having an affair. But when Adam’s lover is found dead in the Morgans’ beach house, he is the prime suspect.  Sarah runs herself ragged as she tries to both keep up […]

The Echo Wife: Come for the thriller, stay for the ethical quandaries

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

by Leave a Comment

I came to this novel for a domestic thriller, and I left with thoughts about science, ethics, and the nature of humanity and personhood.  Evelyn is a world-renowned scientist known for her work with clones. She’s developed a process by which you can have a fully developed adult quote cumin within about a little over three months. She’s kind of a big deal – winning awards and making waves in the scientific communities.  Personally, her life is a bit of a mess. She’s estranged from […]

Someone’s Listening…

Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass

by Leave a Comment

I read this in a flurry with several other “domestic suspense” novels, so, admittedly, I had to refresh my memory. When I read the synopsis, I remembered that this one has a slightly different angle than some others, but it doesn’t stand out in my memory that strongly.  This could be more due to the fact that I read SEVERAL domestic thrillers in the course of a few weeks, and it’s now becoming much easier to predict what’s going on. Or it could be that […]

Plural Marriage Made Interesting

The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

by Leave a Comment

Before I get into this review, I think it’s important that I tell you I was born and raised in Mormonism and spent a great deal of time in Utah. So the polygamy of it all is extra interesting to me. That’s right. The title of this novel refers to “plural marriage,” which is what fundamentalist Mormons call (and called) polygamy from the 19th century to today. Thursday is the second wife of a man who is married to three women. His first wife, Monday […]

Love a good domestic thriller

When I Was You by Amber Garza

by Leave a Comment

I have a theory. It’s not necessarily original, but I have a theory. I think this wave of “domestic thriller” or “marriage thriller” novels is filling the cultural lacuna left by the disappearance of mid-budget thriller films. What once was Sleeping with the Enemy and Basic Instinct and Enough and all the rest is now filled with these novels of married couples who seem to really hate each other. Full discloure: I’m a singleton. Loud and proud. So when reading novels like Gone Girl or […]

Generic title, author name and book.. but it was fine

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones

by Leave a Comment

It has been around two weeks since I’ve finished this book and frankly, its taking me some time to conjure up details of the book.  Not to say that it’s bad, maybe just a bit generic?  I’m sure I’ve read a lot of psychological thrillers like this.  You know that ones where the bad guy could be anyone, and there is definitely a *SPOILER ALERT* big twist or some misunderstanding.  This one book just hangs along the with the rest of them and does not […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo