Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Women are always the strong ones. [gratuitous David Tennant]

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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“You couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.” I will admit I was not immediately into this book. It opens from the point of view of a father writing to his dead daughter which was a bit overly emotional to me. Then cut to one insufferable woman who hates on the other mother’s at her daughter’s basketball game all while munching down on junk food. Cut to other woman whose life is perfect (except […]

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9/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

“Hauntingly Intelligent” is a Bit Lofty Here

Valentina by S. E. Lynes

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So, according to Amazon the full title is Valentina: A Hauntingly Intelligent Psychological Thriller. I really hope everything after the colon was added by the publisher as advertising and to help with search engine confusion and not actually what the author titled the book. If the author did add it… wow, someone’s got some pretty confident opinions of themselves. It’s not a bad book, I enjoyed it and read it in about three days. The plot clips along and there isn’t a lot of fat to trim here, which I like. Towards the end it does falter a bit. I […]

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8/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:9 |

The Walled City

The Walled City by Ryan Graudin

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I was under the impression that The Walled City involved some sort of dystopian/monster/Maze Runner thing all the way up until I read it. It’s actually an action-filled story set in a realistic world. The Walled City, based on an actual city, is a place where criminals live. Our story focuses on three characters: Dai, Jin, and Mei Yee. Dai is secretly working to take down the owner of the city’s biggest drug business. He recruits Jin as his runner, whose job is to run the drugs while Dai waits as collateral. Jin is secretly a girl who is trying […]

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7/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

She’s up all night for good fun….she’s up all night to finish the girl with all the gifts

The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey

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“If the road to knowledge was paved with dead children she’d still walk it” I read this book in two days. I stayed up at night, survived work all bleary eyed and then went home to read more. This book is tense, y’all. It opens with Melanie a smart girl, a girl dreaming about greek mythology. She likes Pandora. She likes the name and the box and the hope that is unleashed with the evil. “And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or […]

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7/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

If it bleeds, it leads…

Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer

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Eve is a crime reporter for iWitness News, and in her zeal for getting scoops has found herself getting the attention of a serial killer with a penchant for staging very public and gruesome ‘exhibitions’. Juggling caring for her father, who has dementia, with her job, Eve is soon drawn into the killer’s game, putting her ethics on the back burner and giving him the airtime he craves, while  putting herself into more and more danger as the ‘game’ progresses. Death wants to claim his maiden, and the maiden just might let him… A fairly decent thriller, this was incredibly […]

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6/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:39 |

Sleeping Giants or I Wish This was The Iron Giant Instead by Sylvain Neuvel

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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I’m a big fan of epistolary novels, oral histories are particularly juicy and fun. Add in robots and aliens? The description sold me instantly! Sadly, the other problem with oral histories is that I inevitably compare them to Max Brooks’ World War Z. I realize that’s incredibly unfair as World War Z is an exceptionally awesome book, but that’s where my bar is set. Sadly, this book is nowhere near the level of World War Z. Short summary: big metal body parts are showing up all over the world. Turns out they belong to a big robot woman built by […]

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5/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

The Woman in Cabin 10 or How Unreliable is this Narrator, Really?

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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I love murder mysteries, especially on audio book—my commute just flies by! I especially enjoy murder mysteries with female narrators. It’s safe to assume I really loved Gone Girl. When The Girl on The Train came out, I was an early cheerleader. I “read” it through Audible and the narration was really outstanding, which I think made me like it more than I would have if I had just read the book normally. This is all to say, I came into this book with high hopes. It had to do quite a bit to disappoint me, and boy did it […]

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5/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

A thriller with a very dark theme

Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

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This review/book requires a trigger warning: Graphic depictions of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and stalking   This…is a tough book to recommend to anyone. And yes, you’ll see the high star rating I gave it and wonder how that jives, but my reluctance is purely over the subject matter and not the writing or characters or plot development. The novel follows Catherine Bailey, a British woman who we see alternately in her late twenties and then a few years later (depending on the chapter).  There are also parts (including the opening of the book) that take place even further […]

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4/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

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