Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You rescue me. I rescue you. That’s how this works.”

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

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This is the second book in the Alex Stern series. This review will contain some spoilers for the first book in the series, Ninth House because I’m not sure how to review it without referencing things that happened in the last book. So if you’re new to this series, start there. Darlington is still missing, “in Spain” to those not in the know, and in Hell, possibly dead to those initiated in the secrets of Lethe House. Galaxy “Alex” Stern doesn’t have a lot of […]

A really good fantasy debut, with one glaring flaw.

The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) by Richard Swan

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This was promising! I’ve had my eye on it since it was published, and an audio sale at Libro.fm finally gave me the incentive to pick it up. I was originally reading The Pariah by Anthony Ryan at this spot in my February TBR, but listening to that book was a better sleep aid than it was a story*, and after only a couple of hours of attempting to listen, I swapped it out for this one, and that was a great decision. I particularly […]

“When you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why”

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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CBR15 Passport Challenge – New to me author Five years ago, blonde and beautiful high school girl Andie Bell was murdered, although no one ever found her body, despite careful searching. However, Andie’s boyfriend Sal Singh confessed in a text message to his dad and then committed suicide before he could be arrested by the police. So everyone knows that he did it, and the case is closed. Pippa Fitz-Amobi remembers Sal Singh as a kind and considerate young man, with a promising university career […]

Bored in the House, Bored in the House

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

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A review of another book summed this one up perfectly for me: this is a rebound book. You’re kind of interested but not really. You’re not ready for anything heavy so you pick it in an I-guess-it’s-you kinda way. You have some mildly entertaining dates but you feel like you’re just passing the time. You’re holding its hand while in the relationship waiting room, hoping for something better. This is that book for me. It’s been a rough week professionally and I don’t want to […]

“It’s true on a technicality. I’m being held unlawfully. I didn’t commit the crime for which I’ve been convicted. But if you look at it another way, I deserve to be here. I did a lot of other shitty things, for which I wasn’t punished.”

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

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I wish I would have known this was a retelling of The Brothers Karamazov before I purchased this book and got all excited about it. I probably never would have picked it up. There is a reason that I have never read any of Dostoyevsky’s stuff (or Tolstoy for that matter). The Family Chao follows the titular family, owners of a Chinese restaurant in a small town in America. The parents of the family are immigrants from China, and there are three sons. When the […]

Did Something Bad Actually Happen or Is She Just An Addict? *Sigh* I Hate These Books

The House in the Pines: A Novel by Ana Reyes

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Maya is haunted by the death of her best friend years earlier when they were on the cusp of high school graduation and planning their futures.  This is brought to the forefront of her memories when she sees a video on youtube of a woman dying on camera despite not being touched.  Maya knows though, that the man in the video, Frank, (someone she dated for a few weeks at 18)  is responsible for the stranger’s death, just as she knows he was responsible for […]



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