Cannonball Read 18

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Sapphic vampires but make it boring

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

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Eh. This was fine. I have never actually read Carmilla but know of its standing as a classic vampire story, so was intrigued by the description of this one as retelling/ reimagining. And maybe it’s unfair to expect anything super original from a retelling but that’s basically the feeling I left this one with – it was all very reminiscent of so many other novels I have read before, and not even in a particularly fun way. I will say that Dunn did a great […]

Soft red petals using white sharp teeth

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab

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V.E. Schwab is one of those authors whose books are always intriguing but sometimes I don’t quite get that emotional connection from them and feel slightly at a distance. This novel was one of the ones where I think I was more intellectually engaged than emotionally, especially in the later half. I’m sure I read the summary/synopsis when I ordered the book but all I really remembered/knew by the time I started this one was sapphic and vampires. The novel alternates view points and time […]

Oh Stephanie

Now Or Never by Janet Evanovich

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You know I love you girl, but I need you to look at your life. I need you to look at your choices. There’s really no way to not spoil the heck out of the thirty-first book in this series. I’ll do my best to put the really spoily stuff at the bottom though in case you have decided to catch up. This is a comfort series for me; you know what you’re getting before you even start reading. Stephanie is going to have to […]

Jumping on the bandwagon

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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This was my first Ali Hazelwood. I had heard her first few novels were basically Kylo-Ren fanfic and had very little interest in that but figured maybe this would be different enough to be a good entry point. Overall, I did enjoy it and think it was a fun read even if I have oh so many nitpicks. Misery was, for the most part, an enjoyable and likable character, and generally smart even while being completely oblivious and clueless about other things. I think the […]

Any Fake Date in A Storm

My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

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When Amelia impulsively claims to have a boyfriend, it’s only to get her nagging family off her back. But when they demand she produce him for a cousin’s upcoming wedding festivities, Amelia enlists the strange but charming Reggie as a fake date, quite unaware that he is in fact a vampire. This is the second book in the My Vampires series, in which vampires with a confused understanding of humanity and modern times meet classic romcom female leads, which much humor ensuing. While the first […]

And you thought your job was soul sucking

Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin

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I asked (texted) a friend the other day asking her, “Why do I find books almost a year before publication? Especially book one of a series?” She answered it was because I was in the early book business. Reader copies are machines to the future (publication of a book), but also they are the dynomite used to open the passages for the trains of reading in the first place. And if the found early book is a stinker, no problems. But when you find something […]



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