Cannonball Read 17

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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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Said the Spider to the Fly…

By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman

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I honestly don’t have much to say here except that I really enjoyed this updated look at Tess’s life. She is still suffering some aftershocks after the events in the last book. Having to kill someone or she would be killed left a hole in her. She and her boyfriend are living apart since she feels like he is trying to “fix” her and keep her safe. She is back to rowing and doing investigations again. Her uncle brings her a new client who is […]

What is Love?

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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So though I thought the ending was quite good, I had some issues with certain aspects of this book. All in all I saw love as a dangerous thing to be in since it seems to not work out for anyone that is in “love” in this one. And the first part of the book takes a while to get going. It helps that Audrey Niffenegger takes the time to include headers that show the date and age of Henry and Clare so you can keep things […]

Flow was Up and Down and the Beginning Was Boring

Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves

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Not too much to say about this one. It was fine. I was bored though for the first 1/3 until we get Vera interacting with characters. Any time Cleeves away from her I found myself bored. The ending was very good though and a surprise. I liked how it was wrapped up. “Telling Tales” takes a very long time to get moving. We start off with a young housewife, Emma Bennett who sits around having fantasies about the local potter, Dan. Things change one day […]

Epic Rant–Spoilers

Buried Prey by John Sandford

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So I can’t talk about this book without spoilers. That’s how freaking annoyed I am. I may just give up reading anymore books in this series or ensuring they are library borrows. Lucas is not the end all be all for women everywhere. The fact that Sandford cheapens Marcy’s death by forgetting her backstory and having her thinking about Lucas in a someday romantic style made me heave. And then of course everyone is not focused on Marcy. Oh hell no, everyone must be focused […]

Davenport’s Family is in Danger Again

Stormy Prey by John Sandford

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Honestly not too much to say about this. The POVs with the bad guys in this one don’t work. It was good to get more of Weather’s POV though and I realize it’s been a while since Sandford had her actually part of the story besides going to work and getting Lucas out of his bad moods. Other than that though, this book really doesn’t work. The bad guys are some of the stupidest people ever. The fixation on killing Weather makes zero sense. And […]

A Mr. Darcy With Heat

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Please note this book will be released May 7, 2019.  Wow. What a wonderful retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Only the Mr. Darcy character is gender swapped and instead of being an upperclass nobleman, we have a young surgeon whose family is descended from Indian royalty (Trisha Raje) I initially didn’t like that Dev had focused on the Mark Darcy character first, but I get why she did […]



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