Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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 […]

what a ridiculous, ridiculous book

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

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I REALLY wish I’d written the review for this sooner, because I remember this being just the most ridiculous book and probably would have written a nicely scathing review had I gotten around to doing so on time. Instead, we will have scathe by proxy as I try to piece together what I thought from the four parts I highlighted. Here is what this book is not, I suppose: a tense thriller, a whodunit, a murder mystery, a psychological treatise on humanity or any combination […]

A Stupendously Traumatic Story of Terrible People

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

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I came across this book when I saw LurkeyTurkey‘s review back in December. Anything being described as “a kick in the teeth” is going to intrigue me, if nothing else. I’m so thankful that this review is spoiler-free, because I went into this book not really knowing anything about it, and I think that was the best way to experience this story. Thanks, LurkeyTurkey! For what it’s worth, synopses I’ve seen of the book give much of it away. So be forewarned. This book takes […]

The cowboys are Librarians who work with more than books

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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Upright Women Wanted has a really interesting set-up: take your standard Western setting, and instead of cowboys, substitute a group of women called Librarians, whose supposed job is to delivery Approved Materials for reading and pick up the old or worn out materials for fixing up. Esther wants to join the Librarians to get away from her past and she stows away in a Librarian wagon. Obviously she gets caught and reaches a tentative agreement with the Head Librarian Bet about apprenticing. The novella follows […]

The Downside of Genius

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

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Well if this book wasn’t a kick in the teeth….. Evelyn Caldwell is a brilliant geneticist with a specialty in adult human cloning.  She is married to Nathan, a rather mediocre scientist, and utter shit husband.  At the pinnacle of her scientific career, Nathan leaves Evelyn and marries another woman.  A woman who unsettles Evelyn to her core. It would be a shame to give away any of the plot details more than that, as this was really an incredible book to go into cold. […]



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