Cannonball Read 11

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Apologies to whoever sat next to me while I read this

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

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The Library at Mount Char is a strange book. Sometimes it’s really interesting and suspenseful; other times, it’s horrific (as in horror literature, not general quality). The thing is, at least for me, is that the two don’t quite mesh together. The general story follows Caroline and Steve, who apparently has some kind of criminal past but now lives a quiet life as a plumber. He meets Caroline who seems a little off but who offers him an unusual amount of money to help her break into somewhere to retrieve something. She’s that specific. The story then shifts back and […]

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4/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Red Harvest

The Fools In Town Are On Our Side by Ross Thomas

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Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest is perhaps my favorite crime novel of all-time. It inspired one of my favorite movies of all time: Miller’s Crossing. It also inspired the Akira Kurosawa classic Yojimbo, which I have not seen, though I want to. Point being: I obviously have a thing for the specific genre where a political actor is caught in a corrupt city and plays both sides against each other for their own benefit. I don’t know Ross Thomas’ inspirations for Fools in Town but I’d be stunned if Red Harvest wasn’t one of them. This feels like an updated version, only more expansive. Thomas gives his protagonist, […]

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3/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

If ever there was a book that I needed to talk to someone about, this would be it

Blue Hours by Daphne Kalotay

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I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher. This has not influenced my review. Blue Hours is a book in three parts. It is part relationship drama, part international hostage drama, and part infuriating. The story begins in New York City with Mim, a recent college graduate trying to make it as a writer. She lives with several roommates and works in a retail clothing store. She is both too frugal to eat anything but liverwurst at the deli for lunch everyday and too frivolous to think about making her own sandwiches. Mim meets a man at […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Very Much The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Before Turning Into Another Book

The Woman in Our House by Andrew Hart

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on June 18, 2019.  So initially I thought this was a pretty good book. We follow Anna (a young mother who is attempting to go back to work and is looking for a live in nanny) and Oaklynn (the nanny in question). Then Hart decides to follow other POV’s in this one (Anna’s husband Josh, a neighbor of the couple, a police officer, and a FBI agent). Not all of the voices worked for this one. It also […]

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3/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

Enough to Turn You Off True Crime

Two can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

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I didn’t like the two leads (Malcolm and Ellery) and the whole book really showcases why a lot of true crime fans like Ellery suck. They don’t really care about the victims of a crime, they just want to play amateur sleuths and think they can find the guilty party. That said, there was not really anything suspenseful in this read. I was bored from beginning to end. Even though this is a Young Adult mystery novel, the actual mystery part should make sense and be intriguing. I maybe laughed in a disbelieving way when the guilty party is finally […]

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3/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

Creepy People Gonna Creep…and a Girl is Gonna Disappear

I am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll

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Sarah and Anna are best friends, excited to be done school, ready to blow off some steam in the city before they take their A Levels later that summer.  Full of verve and vivacity, they catch the eye of Ella Longfield, a middle aged mom headed off to attend a florist’s convention.  They also catch the eye of two handsome young men that seem very taken by the ladies, buying them beer, flirting and to the horror of Ella, sharing honestly that they had both just been released from prison.  Having overheard where the girls are from, she considers calling […]

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2/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

This Should Either be 5 Stars or Negative 100

Her Closest Friend by Clare Boyd

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on March 5, 2019.  I have no words guys. I stayed up until 1 am finishing this book. It’s engrossing because at times you can’t believe how bad the writing and flow is. I kept reading because I was wondering if the character of Sophie was finally going to snap and take out her closest friend Naomi. And I was baffled at how dumb Naomi was about a lot of things. So I just sat back and enjoyed […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

The Audacity of the Rich White Lady

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

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Oh man. I really wanted to like this book, and I did like the first 1/4 or so. But then it just kept careening into stupider and stupider plot devices and the main character showed all the logic and self control of a baseball bat and I honestly barely finished it, even then it was just to hope against hope that it wouldn’t end the way it was so obviously going to… but no luck for me.   The book is told from the first person view of Erin, an incredibly spoiled and sheltered documentarian who is engaged to her […]

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2/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |


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