Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Leave It Up To Love by Kristy Woodson Harvey

Deadly Ambition Series #5 The Silent Muse by Lauren Ling Brown

Deadly Ambition Series #6 The Line by Tim Weaver

Deadly Ambition Series #1 The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty

Deadly Ambition Series #3 You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by A.R. Torre

Deadly Ambition Series #4 A Fatal Delivery by Lauren Oliver

Deadly Ambition Series #2 The Roommate by Andrea Mara

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Earlier this year I got a little bit burned out on long books and went on a bit of a short story binge. It also helps that there are a bunch of Amazon Prime free short stories. I love a free book. So this is a collection of the short stories I read when I was going through my regular book burnout. Some were good, and some were meh. None were really terrible. Five of the books were from the Amazon “Deadly Ambition” series, which […]

Review of Deadly Ambition Short Stories

The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty

The Roommate by Andrea Mara

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by A.R. Torre

A Fatal Delivery by Lauren Oliver

The Silent Muse by Lauren Ling Brown

The Line by Tim Weaver

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I really enjoyed this anthology. I thought most of the reads were 5 stars. The last one was not in my opinion, but that’s just because it felt like a really unfinished story to me. And when I got to his afterword and he starts talking about his other works and these characters may show up again, I realized that’s why I got that feeling well reading.   5 stars-I really liked this futuristic look at a woman (Honey Beckett) dealing with the funeral of […]

“That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.”

Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver

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Bingo Square: Friendship Liesl is an orphan. She has been locked in an attack by her horrible stepmother and hasn’t been outside in months. Sometimes she sits by the window to draw, and there a young boy named Will watches her from the street. One night a ghost appears to Liesl. He is Po. And he will help her escape the attic. Will is an alchemist’s apprentice. One night he is tasked with taking a very important box to a very important woman, but instead […]

I just can’t quit you, Lauren Oliver.

Broken Things by Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver is sort of my Cannonball nemesis. I adored her first book, Before I Fall, but have been disappointed ever since, and my disappointment is somewhat well documented. I disliked her Delirium trilogy (yet kept reading). I didn’t care for Rooms, and Panic was just ok. But for seem reason, I just can’t quit her. And I know, I have no one to blame but myself, really. Lauren Oliver owes me nothing. But still. I want more. I know that someday she’ll write something […]

Actress, knitter, author. Is there anything she can’t do?

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I’m a big fan of Krysten Ritter. I love her as Jessica Jones. She was a fun addition to Veronica Mars. She killed it as the B in Apartment 23. And she broke my heart on Breaking Bad. And now, she’s written her first novel **, a mysterious thriller that proves she’s an author to look out for in the future. Bonfire tells the story of Abby, a tough environmental lawyer at a big Chicago firm, who is sent to the small (AND TERRIBLE) town […]

I Wasn’t THAT Panicked…

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I finally got around to reading Panic after being burned by the “-ium” series (Delirium, Requiem, and Pandemonium…actually I don’t even think I ever even finished the series, something that shocks me. I can’t not read a book I start (usually), but man, were they baaaaddddd.  Anyways, I have fond memories of Before I Fall and I saw some decent reviews here and elsewhere of Panic, I thought I’d go for it. It helped too, that I’m looking for books for myself and a reluctant teen […]



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