Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Nemesis Games

Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

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You guuuuuuuuys. This one was so good. I think they’re ALL good, but I know some people struggled more with book four. I hope nobody struggled with this one, because it got deeper into these characters that we already know and love, and I was legit worried about the heightened levels of peril. Which seems surprising, given how often the crew of the Rocinante finds themselves in the midst of universe-spanning drama. In book five of the Expanse series, our intrepid crew finds themselves separated. […]

A new A plot, and some big progress in the B plot

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This is book three in the Inspector Gamache series, and I am pleasantly surprised and intrigued. I was worried that this would be yet another mystery series that follows checklists every book, like how Eve Dallas always has a consult with Dr. Mira and doesn’t like tea, and Stephanie Plum whines about borrowing Uncle Sandor’s Buick, blah blah blah. We get it, you’ve done that every book for 287 books. While there have been some repeats in the quaint, seemingly-frozen, deadly village of Three Pines […]

When does this get un-sad?

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I miss the days when a Pratchett book was just a Pratchett book – brilliant and wonderful and funny and sharp and thought-provoking. Now, rereading A Hat Full of Sky, it’s all those things, but now there’s this overlay of SAD. Sad that we don’t get to see Tiffany Aching grow up. Sad about what happens to Granny Weatherwax. Heartbroken and furious at the universe for what happened to Sir Terry. SIGH. But if you let the Nac Mac Feegle chase away the sad for […]

Wicked nuns and maybe-murders in a scenic setting

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Picture this: you get a letter from your cousin, who has run off to possibly join a convent in France. She asks you to visit her at the convent, and you have a slight hope that you can talk her out of it, so you hop on a train and dash off to France, running into your former crush on the way. You get to the (gorgeous, isolated, creepy) convent and a mean, aristocratic nun tells you your cousin died last week and is buried […]

473 pages = overly wordy review

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I have found some fun stuff while being a volunteer shelver at my library. The Moonstone was on the cart to put back, but after reading the blurb that said it was one of the first mysteries (written in 1868), I had to check it out myself. The first hurdle is the entire setup of the story. We’re supposed to root for the protagonists simply because they’re the protagonists, but if it weren’t for a heaping helping of racism, none of it would have happened. […]

Is it better to start a mystery with a character or a corpse?

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My mom got me the first two Inspector Gamache books for Christmas, and they are delightful! I saw that book seven showed up on a Cannonballer’s Best Of list for CBR9, so I’m looking forward to the rest of the series. Inspector Gamache solves crimes in Quebec, and these books are COLD. Both books take place in a tiny village called Three Pines, in the dead of winter, and Penny does an excellent job of building the atmosphere and setting. I wanted a croissant and […]



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