Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Murder, Mystery and Mycology

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Wow. Not only is today a public holiday, but we’re also facing temperatures in Houston that would melt us faster than the Wicked Witch of the West. So of course this makes it an excellent kind of day to try and catch up with my sorely neglected reviews. I love most of Robert Jackson Bennett’s writing, but I had no idea what he was going to get up to after finishing The Founders Trilogy. Or when he was going to release anything after The Founders […]

Murder muddle maybe caused by drugs and other stuff

The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

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It might just be coincidence that I picked up The Last Devil to Die just as the tv cast was being announced, but I just need to ask how the heck is Pierce Brosnan Ron? Ron’s a grumpy rough around the edges old dude who does the right thing for his friends and fam, not James Bond. I can see Helen Mirren as Elizabeth though. Ok, I’m done now. Obviously, the story is a murder mystery, this time the Coopers Chase Thursday Murder Club has […]

Her Too?

Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

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Ok so this is actually one of the better Connelly books I’ve read. It definitely merits the 4-star. So why three? There’s just this one thing I can’t let go and I can’t discuss it without spoilers… Also, these spoilers are going to reference the #MeToo Movement and sexual assault in general. I won’t go into graphic detail but if any of that makes you uncomfortable, give it a pass… (Spoilers ahead) Ok so Connelly wrote this at the height of the #MeToo Movement. I […]

Summer of 1999

Home is Where The Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose (Author), January LaVoy (Narrator), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Brittany Pressley (Narrator), Andrew Eiden (Narrator)

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We sometimes (sort of jokingly but also sort of not) say in my immediate family that we only get together with the extended family when there is a wedding or when there is a funeral.  Big life events bring people together, and it is the passing of their mother (Laura) that brings the siblings in this novel back into each other’s orbits.  And once they are back in each other’s lives, old tensions start to rise, exacerbated by the little fact that, oh yeah, their […]

Murder She Wanted to Write

How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

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“Your future contains dry bones” so begins How to Solve Your Own Murder and the fate for one of the main characters of the book, Frances. Sixteen-year-old Frances receives a prophecy from a fortune teller that spells out a series of events that will ultimately end with her murder. Frances ends up obsessing over the prophecy for the rest of her life until almost sixty years later she is murdered. As a final tribute to her lifelong pursuit to solving her prophecy, Frances stipulates that […]

Matters of Inheritance and Love on the Brink of Waterloo

Deserted by Mary Lancaster

Beloved by Mary Lancaster

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Deserted – 4 stars Sophia thinks she’s escaped the clutches of her tyrannical cousins when she comes to be companion to the Duchess of Cuttyngham, even if it’s under strange circumstances. But when her employer makes her escape to Brussels and her family pursues her to her new home, Sophia is forced to turn to the icy but beguiling Earl of Frostbrook for help. This is the third book in The Duel series, which follows the fallout of the Duke of Cuttyngham’s death in a […]



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