Cannonball Read 18

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Blood – Thicker Than Water?

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

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Bel Price was in the backseat when her mother went missing, but because she was two years old, she doesn’t remember the answers everyone wants, and she’s finally made peace with it. But when Rachel reappears sixteen years later, it upends everything Bel knew. I haven’t read Holly Jackson’s wildly popular A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series yet, but I requested up this book on NetGalley for the rave reviews those received as much as for the intriguing premise of this story. Certainly the […]

I still don’t understand how you get “Jet” from “Margaret.” CBRBINGO – ‘N’

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

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This was a bit of a disappointment for me, but I still had an overall good time with it. I don’t understand why Holly Jackson keeps writing books about Americans when she is very British. (Nothing of hers has hit for me like A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.) There was also a key moment at the end of the book that was totally dumb and out of character, which I’m deducting 0.25 stars for. But the mystery was very well plotted and intricate, and […]

She’s Only Mostly Dead

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

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Jet Mason will be dead in seven days. That means she only has a week to solve her own murder. No pressure! On Halloween night Jet is violently attacked in her wealthy family’s small town Vermont home. She’s left for dead but found by her childhood best friend Billy. The traumatic head injury she received during the attack has triggered an aneurysm that is guaranteed to kill her within a week. With Billy by her side Jet is determined to figure out who killed her […]

“When you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why”

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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CBR15 Passport Challenge – New to me author Five years ago, blonde and beautiful high school girl Andie Bell was murdered, although no one ever found her body, despite careful searching. However, Andie’s boyfriend Sal Singh confessed in a text message to his dad and then committed suicide before he could be arrested by the police. So everyone knows that he did it, and the case is closed. Pippa Fitz-Amobi remembers Sal Singh as a kind and considerate young man, with a promising university career […]

Mum and Nan are going to love this

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

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As the family’s Designated Reader, I usually make a note of who the book is destined for – The Best Niece in Australia gets the quality YA, my brother gets most Fantasy, and anything involving violent death and appropriate comeuppance has Mum and Nan written all over it. Everyone in Five Survive is off to Spring Break – though they’re high school students, this falls somewhere between YA and New Adult.  Red and Maya, best friends forever, Maya’s older brother and his girlfriend, their long […]

This series is my jam. And now I want some actual jam.

Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2) by Holly Jackson

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Dudes, I read this so fast. Nobody says dudes anymore except for me. Sometimes I call my boss dude, just coz, and he’s like, Did you just call me dude? Anyhoodle, I read this book so fast, like super fast. There is something about this series that just gets to me. I love it. Even when it is not being the best objectively. I was so happy when I found out that this book was in large part going to be about consequences just like […]



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