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Two Completely Unrelated Books

Death to Anyone Who Reads This by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

October 20, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo – free (replacing Arts) Death to Anyone Who Reads This  So almost immediately after I said I wasn’t likely to read this short (100-page) sequel to The Balloon Hunter, I went ahead and read it. I’m not sure what had made me think it would be more of a horror novel than the first one. It isn’t really, although there is some more violence in this once. Similar to The Balloon Hunter, this one is a “found novel,” but this time through journal entries instead of postcards. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor, Megan Bannen, postapocalypse

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:75 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor, Megan Bannen, postapocalypse ·
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Wish You Were Here

The Balloon Hunter by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

October 17, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo – review (from TikTok) I think this might be the most unique book I’ve ever read. It’s a short novel told exclusively through postcards (that seem to be actually hand-written). The two characters are Rita, who writes the postcards and sends them out attached to balloons, and Clayton, who finds them and writes on the backs as a sort of journal. We learn from these postcards that there was an apocalypse of some sort, and Rita’s postcards bring Clayton hope. He sets off to find […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Elinor Taylor, Hugh Howey, Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor, post-apocolyptic

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:73 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Elinor Taylor, Hugh Howey, Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor, post-apocolyptic ·
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