Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Patience Didn’t Save Me From This Book

The Patient Wolf by Karen Hodges Miller

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Nope. Nope. Nopenopenopenopenopenope. I can’t think of a better way to tell you all about this book. It’s just… bad. And not entertaining bad, or annoyingly bad, or even stupidly misogynistic bad. It’s just… bad. The characters are trite. The writing is bland and full of telling not showing. The plot is rote and any ‘surprises’ are telegraphed from page one. The book also contains one of my pet peeves in novels about shape shifting humans where human physiology is assumed to be the same as animal physiology.  At least it was a fast read. The plot is very basic. […]

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8/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:73 |

Brownies and Broomsticks – Because Sometimes You Need to Read Fluff.

Brownies and Broomsticks by Bailey Cates

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I usually alternate serious books with fluffy books. This book may just be the epitome of fluff. I was on maternity leave for 6 months and, let me tell you, I did not have the brainpower to watch a TV show let alone read a complicated book. So when Audible recommended a “cozy mystery” for me, I was intrigued. Katie Lightfoot just broke off her engagement and moved from Ohio to Savannah to open a bakery with her aunt and uncle. Just as their bakery is about to open, a wealthy local woman is killed and her uncle is accused […]

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5/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Paranormal Romance for Those Who Enjoy Such Things

Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk

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This review required a little research from me on the genre distinction between paranormal and fantasy, so I could resolve that Widdershins is the former. The first in a series, which takes its name from the main characters, this paranormal romance features a couple interacting with occult forces and things that go bump in the night. I would recommend Widdershins, even though it was not my cup of tea. It was fun, but I like significantly less violence and prefer a dearth of imaginary creatures in my kissing books as a rule. Set in the late 19th century, a linguist […]

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3/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

I miss when I cared deeply about this series

Feversong (Fever #8) by Karen Marie Moning

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This review will probably not be coherent to anyone except those familiar with this series, and maybe not even then. There will be spoilers. And conflicting feelings. The shortest version of my history with the Fever series is that I instantly fell in love with the first five books, reading them all in succession over the course of a weekend. I had Fever fever. I’ve read those original five several times since then. When I learned that Karen Marie Moning planned to continue the series, I was thrilled. I was skeptical when I learned that she would be continuing it […]

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3/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

The continuing adventures of the freakishly beautiful supernaturals

Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh

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3.5 stars This is book 9 in a series. It’s really not the place to start. If you want to join in at the beginning, start with Angels’ Blood. Two years have passed since the last book in the series, and Elena is slowly growing stronger, even though she’s virtually a baby in angel terms. The Cascade seems to be on hold, and all the archangels are trying to investigate what exactly is going on in China in the murderous Lijuan’s territory. Has she gone to ground, into (hopefully) centuries long sleep? Her generals claim she’s still very much in […]

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2/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Not as great as the first one, but still a fun read

Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

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Disclaimer! I was granted an ARC copy of this through NetGalley. That has in no way influenced my review. Spoiler warning! This is the second book in The Kingmaker Chronicles and as such this review may contain mild spoilers both for the first book in the series, A Promise of Fire and for the beginning of this book. If you’re new to the series, start with book one. If you like going in not knowing anything, come back and read this review once you’ve finished the book. Griffin has discovered the truth about Cat’s parentage and past and is none […]

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1/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Ashes to Ashes

Spirit and Dust by Rosemary Clement-Moore

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If Texas Gothic is Scooby-Doo meets Nancy Drew, then the companion novel, Spirit and Dust (Ember, 2013), is Harry Dresden: Girl Detective. As I was reading this YA paranormal romance, I began to realize that it was really similar to Dresden Files #3, Grave Peril. Like, really similar. Like, “let’s weaponize the spirits of the dead in Chicago and then unleash Sue the T. Rex during the book’s climax” similar. (This is not a spoiler; like Chekhov’s gun, if you introduce a dinosaur skeleton in a fantasy novel, at some point that skeleton is going to come to life and […]

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1/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

A hunter on suicide mission falls in love with an angel of death

Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews

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Steel’s Edge is the final entry in the Edge series. Once again, two unlikely people are thrust together by violence and fate. Charlotte de Ney is a healer who devoted her life to others in the Weird. Her adoptive mother, Lady Augustine, is a powerful noble and mentor, which makes Charlotte an honorary noble and able to marry well. Sadly, Charlotte is unlucky in love and learns her husband is a complete asshole who married her only to produce an heir to receive his inheritance. Once he learns she is barren, he wants a very fast divorce. Charlotte is shocked and destroyed by […]

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12/31/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:7 |

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