Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

I hate myself a bit for getting sucked into this one….

The Likeness - Dublin Murder Squad #2 by Tana French

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 Ok…after wanting to throw book #1 across the room multiple times, this was a bit of an improvement. It is not so much a sequel, as it is a spinoff, which was interesting.  It didn’t resolve any of my questions from book 1, but at least I didn’t have to deal with the biggest asshole character ever written anymore. The premise in this book is so unbelievable that I rolled my eyes more than once, because, COME ON. Our detective is called to a murder seen where the victim is her doppelgänger, and is using the assumed name that she […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

I WANT TO PUNCH THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK IN THE TEETH.

In The Woods by Tana French

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 Oh sweet mother, did this book ever frustrate me. On one hand, the premise is interesting – a girl shows up murdered in a forest; the lead detective on the case was involved in the suspicious disappearance of two of his friends when he was a child – in the exact same forest.  Dun dun duuuunnnnn….  Who killed this girl? What happened to his friends all those years ago? Are the two cases related? 608 PAGES LATER AND ONLY ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. WTF. The modern day case was fine, a somewhat predictable and sorta infuriating ending, but […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

We need a new category for Mystery-Love Story-Religious Thrillers

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

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 The Wonder brings so many of my favourite elements together – a mystery, faith, a love story, and Ireland.  It basically hit all the right notes for me. Anna is a young Irish girl, who is gaining fame for being able to live without eating for weeks.  Lib, an English nurse and self-proclaimed skeptic, is hired to observe and substantiate the claims that this is an honest-to-goodness miracle. Tensions develop between Lib and Anna’s family, as well as members of the community, as she tries to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding this girl. Spoilers… (sorta): While I […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Wonder No More, This Book is Good!

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

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The wonder mentioned in the title is a young girl named Anna who lives in a small village in Ireland and has reportedly not eaten any food for four months.  The protagonist is a widowed English nurse, trained by Florence Nightingale, who comes to the village as an impartial judge to examine the claims of the village.  The nurse is judgmental of the poverty of the Irish village and skeptical of the community’s claim that this girl is somehow getting nourishment from God. Lib the nurse ends up taking eight hour shifts, switching off with a nun, to stand by […]

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3/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

You can never go home again

Faithful Place by Tana French

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A spring evening in 1985, nineteen-year-old Frank Mackie is waiting impatiently outside for his girlfriend Rosie Daly, as they plan to elope and move to London, making a new life for themselves away from the hard life of the Dublin working poor. When she doesn’t show, Frank goes looking for her in the abandoned house a few door down, and finds a note that suggests she’s gone off without him. As Frank’s father is a violent drunk, his mother is neurotic and shrewish and his siblings aren’t exactly anything to write home about, Frank’s not really surprised, but he is […]

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2/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

Historical Fantasy Takes a Weird Turn

Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle

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I finally got around to re-reading Betraying Season, the sequel to Bewitching Season, and now I remember why I was so reluctant to tackle this one again. Not only is it not particularly good, but it’s also weird. If the first book is a pleasant afternoon tea in a sunlit parlor, then the sequel is more like gnawing on stale fried chicken by the light of the full moon–odd, unsatisfying, and more than a little off-putting to witness. After her twin sister marries at the end of Bewitching Season, Penelope Leland travels with her former governess to Ireland to study […]

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2/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

Sweetness Follows is the best novel yet from Ciarán West

Sweetness Follows by Ciarán West

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It takes a talented writer to inject new life in to the well worn coming of age genre. It so happens that Ciarán West is just that talented, and then some. He takes a shopworn concept and spins it into a 350 page story that moves by so quickly it’s over before you’ve had time to properly say goodbye to the characters. Sweetness Follows is a sequel to West’s previous novel The Boys of Summer. Don’t worry though, you don’t need to have read that one, of course you should though (buy it here!), in order to enjoy this new […]

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1/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

My life was an absolute bastard with a chip on his shoulder.

The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern

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Who recommended this to me? How did this end up on my to-be-read list? Whoever you are, thanks, my friend! It was an absolutely fantastic interlude after the deep, dark despair inspired by the “Peculiar Children” series. Honestly, this is the kind of story-telling I think people are talking about when they talk about Rainbow Rowell (note: I have only read one Rowell book, and it was totally fine). The prose is very sharp and full of whimsy. It’s clever, but lands on the right side of a-dork-able. The protagnist is flawed and the issues are serious, but the journey […]

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12/28/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:52 |

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