Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood

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For context, I have been allergic to all romance not written by Cat Sebastian, Alexis Hall, or K.J. Charles for almost two years. I finished Romantic Hero first thing this morning and was super tempted to just slap five stars on it, because I’m so happy that I found another romance author that works for my brain. Which means, they actually know how to write. Like, the actual SKILL of it. THE CRAFT. Kirsty Greenwood can write! She knows how to pace a book. She […]

“All stories are love stories if you love stories.”

The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer

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I can’t really tell whether or not it was a good or bad thing that I was able to predict every single twist* and reveal in this book, well before I should have been able to. I was entertained, so I guess good? Or it doesn’t matter. I’m just not used to being able to do that. So we’ll table that for now. Anyway, I went into this one grudgingly and with a bad attitude; I will admit that. And then as the book went […]

“Uncovered and propped on a pillow, the opening around her toes nests five half-starved, featherless birds with expensively pedicured beaks.”

An Evil Premise by T. Marie Vandelly

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This book tried to make Fetch happen. Fetch did not happen. January is a new record for my first one star book of the year. I made it to the end of October last year before I uno-dubbed my first book. I can’t believe I actually finished the book, but the premise (what drew me to it in the first place) was too intriguing, so I had to know how it ended. Honestly, what I found was worse than mid-book-me could have imagined. This book […]

“When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it’s a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it’s a Tragedy. Don’t use bullets. Use meteorites. Don’t commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.”

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

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Basically, this book is murder heists. As I finally sit down to start typing this review, I still haven’t decided if I’m going to round up or down from my 4.5 star rating, so I guess we’ll see what I talk myself into by the end of these several paragraphs. Rupert Holmes, of “Piña Colada Song” fame, has given mystery lovers a real treat. Especially if you like mysteries that play with genre and format, which this very much does. Something I didn’t know going […]

A meta murder mystery about writing murder mysteries.

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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I had a really good time with this book. I am honestly pleased with most mysteries that I read because something about the genre makes me inherently happy, but I am always very excited when I find one that goes above and beyond the expectations of the genre, and plays around a little. This one definitely did that. It was like brain candy for me. A little treat. The book is split into two parts, the first being a rough draft of a murder mystery […]

“Do geese see God?”

A Line to Kill (Hawthorne and Horowitz, #3) by Anthony Horowitz

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I didn’t realize how in the mood I was for the vibes this series gives off. I read this book so fast. There’s something so strange yet so compelling about Horowitz’s fictional detective, Hawthorne, who continues to be unlikable, baffling (to us the readers, and to his “biographer,” a fictional version of Horowitz himself), contradictory, and yet he gets the job done, thwarting both reader’s desires and the fictional character Hawthorne in the process. It’s strange, but it works. This third pairing of the duo […]



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