Cannonball Read 18

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“Why is it I tell you all my secrets?” “Because you like the way I look draped over a tree branch?”

Beast Business by Ilona Andrews

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Augustine Montgomery is the head of a very successful investigative agency and a deeply private man. He is an illusion Prime, who can alter his appearance at will, and there are very few people alive who know what he actually looks like. Augustine presents himself to the world as calculated, efficient, ruthless and detached. He is never swayed by emotion and has very few friends as a result. Diana Harrison is the Head of House Harrison and a very powerful animal mage. Like Augustine, she […]

Don’t get too excited about the psychic cats

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

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From the official plot summary: Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The tagline for this book is “Kidnappers. Alien Emperors. Psychic cats. And she’s out of coffee.” Two of […]

A parent’s worst nightmare

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

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This was my first “sitting and waiting for my allergy shot” book of the year. I go every Thursday (ish) at lunch time, and I have to get my allergy shot and sit there for 30 minutes to make sure I don’t have a bad reaction. I started last year and would usually play on my phone while I waited, but this year I decided to use my time wisely and read an actual physical book. So needless to say it took a while to […]

Starting off my CBR (in April!) with a trio of crappily edited books

Stolen in a Small Town by Marie Wilkens

The Willow Springs Kidnappings by Roger Hayden

The Cabin by Robert J. Walker

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Welcome to my first post for CBR 16. I know it’s April. I’ve been a CBR posting slacker. I’ve been reading like a maniac though! I’ve read 33 books this year, so I figured it was about time I started posting about them!! Let’s get started… I think I started this trio of books at the end of 2023, but didn’t actually finish the first one until January of 2024, so it counts! They came as one book on my Kindle, but they were 3 […]

To The Moon

Love You More by Lisa Gardner

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Here’s something funny: as evidenced by a thousand hammy postcards and Live Laugh Love-adjacent signs, Love you to the moon and back is a term of endearment in English. In Dutch, however, if you want to tell someone to fuck off, you tell them to walk to the moon. I’m not sure what that says about us as a people, but I was reminded of the duality by Gardner’s Love You More. Not because it involves either linguistics of astronomy, but because there’s an inherent […]

Max could practically hear Brand bark in his ear, “Now is when you keep your mouth shut and let the stupid bad guy explain every stupid element of their stupid life-plan-slash-life-story.”

The Eidolon: Magnus Academy #1 by K.D. Edwards

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“Anna counted five separate restaurants owned by this Howard Johnson. They looked very old – something from the years before she was born. Rune would probably know. He was always talking about the 1980s and 1990s as if they were the first decades of human existence.” ― K.D. Edwards, The Eidolon “He’s alive!” Quinn cried. “Right? Max right? Right?” Now he turned, desperate. “He’s alive and well and burning a path toward you,” Max whispered. He turned his gaze on Cornelius. Sometimes there were no […]



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