Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Well, THAT was Totally Unexpected

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

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“To call the scene a disaster does it a terrific disservice. The final death toll was never fully calculated, for heaven only knew how many bodies might lie wedged in the rubble. And alas, there was no time for excavation.” – Hale Quarter

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4/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

Book 2 in Newsflesh

Deadline (Newsflesh #2) by Mira Grant

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Ok so this is book 2 for the Newsflesh trilogy.  I loooved book 1.  Book 2 was kind of a chore.  I listened to it on my library’s app.  Sometimes I feel like an audiobook swims or sinks based on the voice talent.  I know that’s not a revolutionary opinion, but hear me out.  I know The Girl with All the Gifts was a freaking awesome book.  Listening to Finty Williams read it made it nearly magical.  I loved it so hard.  I don’t think I necessarily like the guy who voices Shaun Mason, and he’s basically the narrator for […]

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4/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

Back to ZOMBIES! Yay!!

Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy Book 1) by Mira Grant

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I loved this book. I really did. I just spent the last two and a half hours finishing it, because I couldn’t stop. I loved the characters. I loved the point of view. I loved the idea of the virus and where it came from. Ok, enough praise. If you’ve ever read Mira Grant and liked her, I suspect this book is for you. I started out last year with her Parasitology trilogy. I liked them a lot, and I kept hearing about the Newsflesh series. I guess I just had other books on my list, because I kind of […]

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3/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

I Believe the Zombie Children Are Our Future

The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

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Or, at the very least, they are the future in M.R. Carey’s book, The Girl With All the Gifts. The book is about Melanie, zombie child extraordinaire. She’s being held, along with several other (albeit less extraordinary) zombie children, at a research facility in England.  At the facility, they attend classes, eat grubs and occasionally get dissected, all in the name of science.  Dr. Caldwell does the dissecting, and Helen Justineau does the teaching. Below is a song I “wrote” about their adventures (please to be sung to the tune of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All”): I believe the […]

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3/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Titles, shmitels. He’s rich.

Cell by Stephen King

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Stephen King is the undisputed master of horror. He’s written about everything from rabid dogs to aliens, to plagues that wipe out most of humanity; he’s covered ghosts, vampires, serial killers, and the visceral terror of evil manifested as a clown. Hell, he’s even covered machines coming to life with murderous intent. He’s done it all. But it took until 2006 for him to cover zombies? Weird. Especially considering that the real villain here doesn’t seem to be the zombified denizens of New England, but the cellphones that created them. One day, for reasons that are never particularly explained, a […]

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3/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

Round 2 of me reading book 2

Through the Killing Glass by Mainak Dhar

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Ok, here goes round 2 of me reading book 2.  I did finish it this time!  It wasn’t that long, so I’m not sure what exciting thing was happening in my life 5 years ago that I couldn’t finish it.  I guess I just wasn’t reading books to raise money for cancer back then.  Silly me! So again, there are some editing mistakes, and the writing is a little clunky.  I looked this book up on Goodreads, and man do people have things to say about it.  I echo some of their comments with this: 3 stars for the idea, […]

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12/6/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:49 |

Book 1 of the trilogy that I read book 3 of

Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar

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OK, so Amazon doesn’t seem to have just book 1 of this trilogy as an option, so my link above is to the whole trilogy.  As I said in my Book 3 review, I already read book 1 a while ago, and then got stalled on book 2, and never made it to book 3.  So… I just read book 1 again.  I remember liking it, and I liked it again.  You have to take some things into consideration to enjoy the book though.  I really don’t mean this in a mean way, but you can tell with some of […]

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12/6/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:48 |

Book 3 of a trilogy that I don’t think I finished book 2 of?

Off With Their Heads: The Prequel to Alice in Deadland (Alice in Deadland #3) by Mainak Dhar

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So for some reason, I’m really into all Alice in Wonderland stories.  Alice in Deadland also has zombies (a virus causes “The Rising”), so for me that’s a win-win.  I think I downloaded this Kindle book like five years ago.  I read all of book 1, and loved it.  I’m pretty sure I’m going to read it again to finish out my Cannonball this year.  The problem was book 2.  I think it stalled me, so I never got to book 3 (this one).  Conveniently, book 3 is a prequel, so it’s a perfect jumping off point to get back […]

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11/28/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:47 |

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