Cannonball Read 18

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The Twilight story we never knew we needed

Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer

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My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight? It’s Twilight, but from Edward’s point of view. So, boy meets girl. Boy is actually a vampire and wants to kill said girl, but before he can he falls in love with her. But soon he realizes his love for her will only put her life in danger and does put her […]

Maybe not his best, but not terrible either. Bingo #3

Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

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Cbr11bingo TBR/Bingo #3 There’s nothing like a book sale to help me stock up on a ton of books that I would probably never have given a second glance to otherwise. Last spring, our local library’s book sale coincided with the going-out-of-business sale of the local Warehouse Books. This is how I ended up with Midnight Sun. I recognized Jo Nesbo’s name and figured this was a good opportunity to familiarize myself with his work. Midnight Sun does not feature Nesbo’s well known detective Harry […]

I don’t generally root for the bad guy…

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..but maybe when you mess with the bull you get the horns, or some dumb stuff like that. I have a hard time being on the side of someone who does something that’s not even all that honorable or whatever making choices that piss off of the big bad boss and now they’re on the run. This novel is more or less just a novella, especially given that most of Jo Nesbo’s novels are 500 pages. It feels thin, and almost, and this wouldn’t surprise, […]



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