Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Like Gosford Park by Way of Source Code, with a Zest of Black Mirror

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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This might have been better as an actual read rather than an audiobook: due to the complexities of the plot and many many characters, if my mind drifted for even a second I would find myself confused as to what was happening or who was who. But then, with all the moving parts I might have had a time keeping everything straight even if I were to have read it. I know this book has been reviewed by a number of Cannonballers in the past […]

The Puzzl-iest of Puzzles

The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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The reading experience for this one was something else. In the beginning, I was eagerly tearing the pages, desperate to learn more. From about midway to the 3/4th marker, I got exhausted with the characters and the bottomless plot that was too complex to appreciate. I remembered why I rarely read English countryside mysteries, even books like these that honor them as well as ape them. I just don’t care about puzzle box mysteries that much. But the last 1/4th of this book, when things […]

I am not this body that imprisons me

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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I didn’t really like The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle at first. In fact, after a few chapters I put it down and decided to read something else. But then I found that I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and even now, 2 days after I finished it, I’m still thinking about it. Somehow this book, in which there wasn’t a single character I liked or any ending I could picture that would’ve satisfied me, wormed its way into my psyche and if I […]

This post is a grab bag of fiction

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

A Lily in the Light by Kristin Fields

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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So I’ve got three fiction novels to review here — all of which are kind of hard to classify, which is how they ended up here… (4 stars) Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah I didn’t really know what to expect from this one, but I ended up really liking it. The writing was lovely and the characters were very realistically portrayed. “If she’d learned one thing in the last two years, it was that life could be hard enough without adding […]

Who Are You?

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle* by Stuart Turton

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Bingo Square: Reading the TBR In the crumbling country house of Blackheath during a party, Evelyn Hardcastle takes her own life. Except she didn’t. And it’s on Aiden Bishop to find out what really happened. Only instead of a straight forward murder mystery he’s stuck in a time loop, living the same day over again but in different host bodies, able to see events from different perspectives and question guests about their whereabouts. But there are others trapped in the same predicament and only one […]

Fun closed murder-mystery with a lot of men

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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I am so annoyed at this book. First of all it was way too long. It should have been edited down, not just for length but also several times there was language so floral that it took me completely out of the mystery. I mean stuff like this: “Thankfully, the leaves and twigs are so demoralized by the earlier rain they don’t have the heart to cry out beneath my feet.” Shut up. Just say what you mean. Urh. And every.single.character was a man. And […]



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