Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Death & Intrigue at a Wizarding School

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

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Ivy Gamble is a private detective who is also kind of a mess. She drinks too much, she has trouble forming lasting relationships, and she is tired of following cheating husbands and uncovering insurance fraud; Ivy wants to prove herself as a real investigator. So when the headmaster of the Osthorne School for Young Mages appears in her office and wants to hire her to investigate a mysterious death at the school, Ivy jumps at the chance. But Osthorne isn’t just a magic school, it’s […]

My Kind of Western

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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This novella has been sitting on my kindle forever and I don’t know why it took me this long to read it but I’m so glad I finally did! I think I’ve talked before about my struggles with short fiction, I always want more. This one wasn’t any different. I don’t know if reading any of Gailey’s other novellas would help clear up some of the background on this story. It’s set in a dystopian America torn apart by war with most people reduced to […]

“Some things, Vera knew, were made to die.”

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

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If you enjoy seasonal reading, I’d put this on the list for October – it has nice spooky bones and a strong creepy vibe (as you can pretty plainly tell from the cover art). Whenever you’re ready, the Crowder House will be waiting for you. Vera Crowder’s dad built the home that she grew up in – the home that she would leave at 16, and the home where she would return to witness the death of her mother.  The Crowder’s are a complicated family, […]

Just Like Home

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

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Wow. This was really good. I didn’t know where the book was going at all, but I had fun just hanging on for the ride. I wonder how do other readers think this book is going to end? I have some thoughts noodling around in my head. “Just Like Home” follows 30 something year old Vera Crowder. Vera has been gone from her family home for 15 years. Something drove her away. But now that her mother Daphne is dying, Vera is home to take […]

Hoo boy, does this book bring the creep!

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

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Vera Crowder has A Past. A Past filled with things that are Very Bad. When she gets the call from her mother to come home, Vera very much does not want to…but she goes home anyway. Her mother, Daphne, is dying, and needs Vera to help clean up/sort through/clean out the house. The house, which is a living museum to Vera’s father, Francis – plexiglass screwed down over tabletops and carpets, everything perfectly preserved. Daphne also wants Vera to make nice with James Duvall, an […]

When do clones become people?

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

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BINGO – Scandal Evelyn, famed geneticist and ground-breaking scientist, discovers that her husband is leaving her for– well, her. A clone of her at least named Martine that her ex-husband created using her own research. A clone that should just be a tool used for a specific purpose and not something that should be treated like a human being. And yet, Martine the clone exists and operates in the world as a fully formed person, and Martine the clone has done something else that shouldn’t […]



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