Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Second time through, the characters make this just as good.

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith

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The thing about entirely plot-based books is that they don’t usually make for good re-reads, and I am a TOTAL book re-reader. “Do I want to re-read this someday?” is genuinely a question I ask before I will elevate a book to the four star level. If the answer is no, then there better be some damn fine extenuating circumstances as to why not (for instance a book that’s really good, but so traumatizing and upsetting that you can’t read it more than once). Mysteries sometimes can’t be re-read, because you already know what happened (unless you forgot, in which case, congratulations, […]

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8/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

Next time the Library, not Bookstore

The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

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I put off reviewing this one because I didn’t want to get my first full intentional Cannonball with a mild disappointment.  I’d picked it up because I wanted something to read on a trans-Atlantic flight but ended watching Moana (cute although the songs weren’t as awesome as advertised) and Assassin’s Creed (wow, was that a bad movie) instead. I picked it up to read a few days later because the premise sounded interesting and it was billed as the first installment of a best-selling series. I should have known better, since I don’t have a great record with best-sellers or […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:53 |

Splash down with Ninteenth Century Evil Science

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

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The basic storyline is thus: a group of daughters/creations of infamous literary scientists band together for self-protection and sisterhood, have adventures, and solve crimes. We have Mary Jekyll, the leader, Diana Hyde the wild and bratty little sister, Beatrice Rappaccini the beauty, Catherine Moreau the fierce one, and Justine Frankenstein the strong one. They are assisted by Mrs. Poole the housekeeper, Alice the maid, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as themselves. Their main target of investigation is Société des Alchemistes, a shadowy organization to which their fathers all seem to have had ties. All of this happens while trying […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:52 |

Trauma, Trauma EVERYWHERE!

Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson

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After reading Swanson’s novel A Kind Worth Killing which was like a cross between Strangers on a Train and Don’t Make Agreements with Psychopaths for Dummies (a book not yet written but should be), I was excited to see that Swanson had another book, which is why I picked up Her Every Fear.  A Kind Worth Killing had a hook immediately, Her Every Fear took me a little to get drawn in but after a few chapters, it was the thriller on steroids that I was hoping for. Our main character Kate Priddy decides to escape London (and something VERY […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

“Everybody feels better when there’s cake”

Greenglass House by Kate Milford

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Milo Pine lives at the large and sprawling Greenglass House with his adopted parents, Nora and Ben. The house is an inn that tends to cater to smugglers and other people not always on the right side of the law, but during the Christmas season, it’s normally empty and quiet and Milo is looking forward to a few weeks of relaxation and quiet with his family. His parents are extremely surprised and Milo rather annoyed when they seem to be absolutely inundated with guests only a few days before Christmas Eve. This is really going to put a damper on […]

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8/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:71 |

Oldies But Goodies

The Weiser Book of The Fantastic and Forgotten by Judika Illes

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The Fantastic and Forgotten, edited by Judika Illes (2016) – Usually when I review anthologies, I summarize individual stories and give an overall judgement, but this anthology is such a unique concept, I must discuss the entire anthology as a whole. First of all, I’d never heard of Weiser Books who published this anthology.  They publish occult, esoteric, speculative, and New Age works.  This collection, however, publishes stories of forgotten authors from the 1800s, mostly English, and includes such surprising (and not forgotten) authors such as Bram Stoker (yes, that Bram Stoker), Oscar Wilde, H.P. Lovecraft, Mrs. Lovecraft (who knew […]

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8/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

Why with the ridiculous female protagonist? WHY?

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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 I always feel torn about books like this one.  There are so many flaws, and yet, I still sorta enjoyed it. The main character, Lo, is a travel journalist who is setting out on the maiden voyage of a luxury yacht, headed to view the Northern Lights in Scandinavia.  Days before leaving on the trip, her apartment is burgled while she is home, she has a huge fight with her boyfriend, and is generally on edge. The first night on the boat, she hears a commotion in the room next to hers (a room where she had earlier spoken with […]

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8/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Like hope, stupid also floats.

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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Quite possibly the stupidest, most aggravating character in recent memory blunders her way through a mystery like an amateur Inspector Clouseau. It’s staggering how many poor decisions our hero Laura “Lo” Blacklock makes on a minute to minute basis. I had to keep checking that the author wasn’t actually a man writing under a woman’s pseudonym because this is one of the most misogynistic books I’ve read in some time. Sample dialogue: “I groaned at my own stupidity…” “Why didn’t I listen to…” “How could I have been so stupid…” Christ, lady, we get it. You’re an idiot. By the […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

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