Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About CaribbeanClaire

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I'm a UK Expat who has been living in the Caribbean for 25 years. I love reading and used to have to negotiate how much suitcase space could be devoted to books each time we left the island. Unbelievably I moved to an island without a book shop so I learned to read an eclectic mix of styles and genres as I swapped books with anyone and everyone. Now I read pretty much exclusively on a Kindle (I'm on my 5th one after wearing most of the others out!).

CaribbeanClaire's Reviews:

Love stories and survivor guilt make for a surprising good read

The One Who Got Away by Roni Loren

The One You Can't Forget by Roni Loren

The One You Fight For by Roni Loren

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Apologies I could only find an image with two of the three books in it!  This series of books has been written/released pretty quickly.   First in January 2018, the second in July 2018, the third was released on January 1, 2019 so you don’t have a long wait between books in the series like you do with some authors.  Unfortunately the 4th and probably final book in the series is not slated to be published until December 31, 2019. TRIGGER WARNING here for gun violence, […]

Probably a less than 10% chance I’ll take up running after this

Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run by Alexandra Heminsley

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This is an older book published in 2014.  I live on a small Caribbean island and spend a lot of time in airports travelling to just about anywhere.  On one such trip, I was hanging out waiting for my mid morning flight home and I realised that as the flight should be boarding that I was not only at the wrong gate but also in the wrong terminal.  I was then faced with trying to make it from terminal D to B as quickly as […]

Pride & Prejudice retelling set in Pakistan (which doesn’t quite work)

Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal

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This is a new publication (pub Jan 22, 2019), a retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice set in Pakistan.  I love, love, love Pride & Prejudice, re-read it regularly and also read most re-tellings/re-imaginings (except the zombie one, I can’t get my head around that at all!!).   My favorite of these is Eligible by Curtis Sittenfield.  But it feels rude to talk about that book in a review of a completely different book but do check it out if you like P&P re-tellings. Ms. […]

Backpacking in Thailand goes terribly wrong

The Suspect by Fiona Barton

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I pre-ordered this book and it was delivered to my Kindle on January 22nd, just as I finished my previous book.   Perfect timing.  Fiona Barton is a UK author and the book is set in the UK and Thailand.  Two 18 year old girls go backpacking in Thailand at the start of their Gap Year.  A Gap Year is largely an English “thing” (although South Africans and Australians tend to do it too), where teenagers take a year off between school and college.  They work […]

A fun light-hearted read with shifters

Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

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From the book blurb, because it explains this bonkers book better than I could – “It’s not every day that a beautiful naked woman falls out of the sky and lands face-first on grizzly shifter Berg Dunn’s hotel balcony. Definitely they don’t usually hop up and demand his best gun. Berg gives the lady a grizzly-sized t-shirt and his cell phone, too, just on style points. And then she’s gone, taking his XXXL heart with her. By the time he figures out she’s a honey […]

Do not judge this book by the cover

The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert

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What a terrible cover!!  I ignored this book for months totally put off by it and I’ll admit the book blurb too.  But it popped up on a few “best of 2018” lists so I gave it a try.  I loved it, and will be re-reading it shortly.  I’ve read some other Talia Hibbert’s so I am not sure why I waited so long (oh yes, the cover!). Ruben is our wayward Prince (of a small made up Scandinavian island) and he meets Cherry at […]



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