Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance.”

Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2) by Rachel Caine

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 16/30 Okay, wow, that was so good. Partly I’m so surprised by how into this I was because it was a bit of a struggle for me to get through the first book. I got sixty pages in and let it sit for months. Finally I just decided to switch it up and do the audio, and then I finished it in two days. But the laggy, weird kind-of-want-to-DNF feeling stuck around when I thought about book […]

A collection that’s a little all over the place, but wholly enjoyable

Hex Life by Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering

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I do not think I am the target reader for a short story. I value stories that have complete resolutions. I want characters that have had the chance to rise and fall, succeed and fail, and sometimes more than once. These things are not always the aim of a short story. I get that, and yet I keep going back to these collections. This is one of the first collections that I have read that are all written by different authors. Though each story centers […]

Attack of the Mombot

Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

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On a sunny eve, somewhere in the suburbs of Wichita, Gina Royal comes home with her two young children to find a car embedded into her house. But that’s not the biggest problem. The real problem is that the car has destroyed the garage wall, and when the cops take Gina into the garage – her husband’s hobby domain – she finds a dead woman suspended from the roof of the garage. The woman has been tortured to death. The culprit? Gina’s loving husband Melvin, […]

A satisfying-ish ending to a too-long series

The Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine

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That title makes me sound way more down on this book than I actually was. I genuinely really enjoy this series and there wasn’t a book I hated, or even disliked, it just began to feel like the whole thing went on for too long. That coupled with the fact that just about everything else I’ve read this month has been stellar beyond words meant that well, The Sword and Pen was good, but not groundbreaking. Somewhere in the lack couple dozen reviews I did is […]

Get a New Line of Work?

Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake Book #4) by Rachel Caine

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I am a sucker for a series with a strong, capable woman.  Add the fact that she’s a mom on a mission? I’m alway sold.  I’m easy…always have been.  To catch you up, the Stillhouse Lake series is about a woman, Gina Royal, who comes home to find out that her husband was a serial killer and that he had been killing people under her nose for years (in a sound proof hobby room in the garage).  People did not believe that she wasn’t aiding […]

A familiar but not unwelcome story

Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre

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While I waited for my hold to come up on the finale of Rachel Caine’s The Great Library series, I dipped my toe into Honor Among Thieves. I am glad she chose to co-write this with another author because I very quickly saw a lot of similar themes from TGL and was relieved not to be reading an author’s remix of her own books, even if I like those other books. Honor Among Thieves is different enough to keep me interested and is yet another series I will […]



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