Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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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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This Should Either be 5 Stars or Negative 100

Her Closest Friend by Clare Boyd

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on March 5, 2019.  I have no words guys. I stayed up until 1 am finishing this book. It’s engrossing because at times you can’t believe how bad the writing and flow is. I kept reading because I was wondering if the character of Sophie was finally going to snap and take out her closest friend Naomi. And I was baffled at how […]

No One Was Likable

Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

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Wow. No one was likable in this one except one character (Nan). Maybe you can read a book about fairly unpleasant people, but I tend to not be able to especially when the writing isn’t that great either. The ending was a laugh too. I think Fuller wants to have a sense of mystery about Ingrid Coleman, but if we are supposed to believe what Fuller is hinting at, she’s probably the worst of the Coleman’s. “Swimming Lessons” is about the Coleman family. About 11 […]

See Into the Beast

The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well, this was okay. No big issues really, I just found myself bored reading it. We have how many retellings following Beauty from Beauty and the Beast? Well we get one told from the Beast’s point of view. I compared this book a bit to “Beastly” since that’s the only book I have read that told the story from the Beast’s point of view. I have to say […]

Not as Good as Christie

And Death Came Too by Richard Hull

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Well. This was a bummer. I was hoping for a smart and interesting murder mystery. I just didn’t like how this was written sadly. We had many characters and Hull doesn’t develop them enough for you to care. The book also ended on a weird note before pushing me to another book that he wrote. I have no interest of that one at all. “And Death Came Too” […]

Presidential…or How to Not Be like Donald Trump

Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

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So I am a moron. I had no idea there were two other books before this one. I felt like I got plopped into Theodore Roosevelt’s life and felt confused. Once I realized that I was on the third book I felt better since I was all, why is the book acting as if I read about Theodore Roosevelt before now? I have to say though that my attention kept straying away while reading this. I thought that Morris does a good job of bringing […]

Once Upon a Time…

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

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Yes! My soul needed a good magical realism book. It was crying out for it you guys. “Once Upon a River” delves into many characters but manages to thread the needle with keeping an eye on the main plot from beginning to end of this book. I absolutely loved “The 13th Tale” so I was looking forward to see what Setterfield did with this. She weaves stories, fairy-tales, and myths together to tie around the Thames River and the people who live alongside it. “Once […]



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