Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The Children by Melissa Albert

The Children by Melissa Albert

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I didn’t really enjoy Albert’s Hazelwood, but had hopes for this one, but again, I think she has issues with one with the book premise sounding great, and then the execution not really working. I had similar issues with the characters not really drawing you in as you read. I know I was supposed to see Guinevere’s mother Edith as  dark figure (she gets mentioned as being similar […]

The Goddess Game

The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

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Yet another excellent young adult horror novel by the author of The Hinterlands series. Four people vanish from four different locations without a trace on a single winter’s night. There seems to be little to connect the four- a teacher, a teen girl and boy, and Nora’s estranged best friend Becca. Although Becca had been acting strangely in the months before her disappearance Nora knows that she would not have just run away. She must follow the clues Becca has left for her, clues that […]

Into the Woods to Grandmother’s House and Home Before Dark

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

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I was the kid that had the Complete Collection of Grimm’s Tales and The Illustrated Hans Christian Andersen and got really annoyed when Disney didn’t get them right. Cinderella’s sisters are supposed to mutilate their feet to try to get the shoe to fit! The witch needs to kill Snow White THREE TIMES! The Little Mermaid is supposed to die, dammit! That’s the only way the story really makes sense! Basically, I was that kid who wanted her stories dark and gorey. I have a feeling Tales […]

A promising start for a new author

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

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So, we have Alice and her mother Ella living a fairly transient lifestyle.  They seem to constantly run in to bad luck. Things catch fire, or strange things happen, and Alice even gets kidnapped once.  Ella’s mother, Althea, is an author of a book, Tales from the Hinterland.  It’s a book of dark fairy tales that is no longer published, but has a fanatical cult following.  It’s also a book that Alice has never read, despite her efforts to find a copy. One day they […]



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