Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


It’s Nutcracker Season, Y’all

The Turnout by Megan Abbott

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Jumping right in to my first review for my very first Cannonball Read! I am a librarian by trade, and I talk a lot about books. I’m hoping that the Cannonball will help me get into the habit of writing more about what I’m reading! This was my first Megan Abbott, and definitely a slow burn. Our main characters are Dara and Marie Durant, sisters, and Dara’s husband, Charlie. All three are co-proprietors of Durant School of Dance, and they also live together in the […]

A Tale as Old as Patty Hearst

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

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Oh boy, where to begin with this one.  On a crisp autumn evening, art teacher Mia is kidnapped by Colin, a low level criminal. He is supposed to hand her over to a notorious gangster who plans on using Mia to demand ransom from her influential lawyer dad. But Colin knows the gangster, knows what’ll happen to Mia, and impulsively decides to take Mia away himself. He takes her to an abandoned cabin in the woods where they settle in for the winter. As Colin […]

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

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones

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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 […]

Swampy

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne

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I’m not the biggest reader of thrillers, but my mother bought this for herself at a train station once, it looked interesting, so I “borrowed” it. Helena Pelletier is a woman with a dark past, her mother was kidnapped by her father as a child and kept in a cabin somewhere deep in the Michigan Upper Peninsula’s marshes. For the first twelve years of Helena’s life, she has no contact to the outside world, only knows her controlling, sadistic father, her shellshocked mother and a […]

What to do with the murderous siblings?

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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A darkly fun, twisted ride, exactly what I needed to clean my palate. I’ve been cursed a little with my book reading lately, one I really liked I forgot at my father’s place before finishing it and another one that I’m reading is amazing, but also so freaking depressing, I manage like five pages and then I need some time to recover from them. This I found by chance, I remembered the cover from the bestseller stacks, ordered it and devoured it in one day. […]

Way darker than the classic Joshua Jackson vehicle “Skulls”

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Secret societies and magic have existed at Yale for centuries…didn’t you know? Don’t worry, most of the students don’t either. But the members of the secret societies are elbow deep in literal blood magic that keeps their alumni wealthy, famous, well-connected, well-liked….you name it (Bush the second’s election makes SO MUCH more sense now). Who keeps this kind of power in check? College students aren’t exactly famous for their good judgment. Enter Lethe House, the ninth house, created as a watchdog to keep the other […]



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