Bea Pants – Page 11 – Cannonball Read 17

“You’ll feel light in your body”

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

August 12, 2019 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

I bought this book shortly after it came out because it sounded interesting and I want to support new authors. I also liked fantasy based on West African rather than European mythology for a change of pace. Overall I thought the story was solid and I’ll definitely be picking up the next one when it comes out. I found some of the main characters to be frustrating but this may just be a side effect of not reading a ton of YA lit. I’m […]

Well it ain’t Gone Girl but it’ll do

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks

August 9, 2019 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

WARNING. The review is a bit spoilery. On its face, The Wife Between Us is the story of a woman obsessed with stopping the wedding of her former husband and his new, much younger bride. The perspective change happens when we learn her true motivation for doing so and learn the story of her journey from blissful new bride potential homewrecker. The explanation for what is supposed to be the central twist is a little bit silly and detracts from the book but […]

“Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear”

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reed

April 29, 2019 by Bea Pants 1 Comment

This is a difficult novel to review without spoiling it but I’ll give it the old college try. An unnamed narrator is driving with her boyfriend Jake to visit his parents in their isolated home in the country. If the title wasn’t enough of a clue, the narrator tells us in the first line of the book that she’s thinking of ending things. As their journey continues, the narrator becomes continually more unsettled Jake and his parents behavior until Jake seems to abandon her […]

Doo doo, doo doo doo doo!

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

April 19, 2019 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

Did anyone else sing the title of this book to the tune of Baby Shark? No? Just me then. Despite my knowledge of kid-friendly ear worms, I do not actually have any kids. This book essentially validated that decision as it told the story of Hannah. She is seven years old and non-verbal but otherwise very intelligent. She’s the absolute apple of her father’s eye and she loves her father even more. However, her mother Suzette, who spends all day at home with Hannah homeschooling […]

“And I may have lost my mind but I believe that I rule my world”

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

April 10, 2019 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

While I wanted to enjoy this book much more than I did, it grabbed me enough for me to keep the sequel on my TBR pile. My main issues with it seemed to be that it lacked focus as all the main characters were introduced and found their way to each other which happens sometimes when a book is the first in a series. I think now that all the principles are working together, the sequels will be much more focused moving forward. If the […]

“Animals were hiding behind the rock, except the little fish”

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

March 28, 2019 by Bea Pants 3 Comments

Well this review is going to be a tough one. I’m not totally sure how to describe this book or what genre to even put it in. The basic story goes like this: Eric Sanderson has acute memory loss spurred on by the sudden death of his lover Clio while they were vacationing in the Greek Islands. He literally has no memories before the start of the book in which he wakes up on the floor of a strange house. He begins receiving letters […]

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