Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I could really use some money, if like a billionaire is listening or something . . .

The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 14/30 This was fun! I love puzzle books. Not that I even tried to solve any of the puzzles in here; as previously related in many reviews (one just last week, I believe), I am a more passive reader and not super great at puzzles or riddles, so I just sit back and let the characters do all the work for me, presenting me with mysteries and then serving up the answers. This particular puzzle book is […]

A solid mystery/thriller set in Wales.

The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 4/30 This got better as it went. I’m glad, because up until a key reveal over halfway through the book, I was pretty emotionally uninvested in what was going on. There so many point of view characters! Too many, I think. Made it a lot harder to get invested. Also, I much prefer mysteries where the people solving the crimes discover things, instead of us as readers discovering them via flashback, which is mostly what happens here. […]

Ugh, I’m still thinking about the thing with the hamsters.

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 3/30 I figured out about half of what was going on here before it was revealed, but it didn’t matter because this book was really well written. This is only my second book by Lisa Jewell, and she is two for two (both books about teenagers who have disappeared, and they have another similarity as well but that’s spoilers). I read this in a day, staying up two hours past my bedtime to finish it (and my […]

“She’s very proud of her crime scene; it must surely be the most pleasant crime scene the cops have ever been to.”

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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“You don’t describe your job like that,” Vera scolds. “Is a small job, hah! Can you see men saying that? No, men will talk it up with bullshit, that is why they get even bigger job next time. There is no such thing as ‘small job.’ And don’t say in that silly tone, oh so apologetic, I am just silly woman having a small job. No!” Her index finger shoots up and points at Julia’s face like a sword. “You go and do this job […]

Mr. Willoughby Rides Again

The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2) by Claudia Gray

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I enjoy this series so much. There’s just something so pleasurable about watching a talented author who knows Jane Austen’s work in all the right ways play around in that world and with those characters, and then add in a well-executed murder mystery on top of that and I’m gonna be happy no question. This is like, the essence of good fanfic, except it’s polished, professionally published fanfic (hence my shelf name). So last time we had Mr. Wickham getting his just desserts, and this […]

CBR15 Bingo: Europe (triple Bingo)

Folk med ångest (Anxious People) by Fredrik Backman

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#CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries (set in and written by a Swedish author, read in Swedish) CBR15 Bingo: Europe (see description for Passport Challenge) Official book description (translated by me): Folk med ångest (literally translated as People with anxiety, official English title Anxious People) is an unusually messy comedy about a hostage drama during an apartment showing, where a failed bank robber locks themselves in with an overly enthusiastic realtor, two bitter IKEA-addicts, a mean multimillionaire, a sad lady, a very pregnant woman, […]



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