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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Curiouser & Curiouser

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

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Well this was an interesting first book in a planned trilogy (I am guessing). There’s enough there to maybe have me read book #2. The world building was interesting, but didn’t delve enough in the end. The character development of everyone in this book was not great. I absolutely hard sighed at a love triangle showing up which I am sure is going to get more play in the next book. I also think that the time jumps didn’t help matters and I think that […]

Love Story Between Two Sisters

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center

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I ended up reading another book by Center and wanted to revisit her other books. I honestly liked this one, but didn’t really need the romance for the main character (Margaret). Also I am not a fan of male characters ignoring it when a female character tells you what their name is and they refuse to use it. I swear I have seen this happen in other romance books and I want everyone to just stop putting that in there. The love story to me […]

The Fall of the House of Deschain

Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead by Robin Furth

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Not too much to say here. We get to see Gilead before it’s fall. Constant Readers know about some of the events if you have read the other Dark Tower books. We have Roland reeling from killing his mother and Cort on his deathbed. Oh Roland. He is really a tragic figure. I know that King took inspiration from the Tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table when writing the Dark Tower. You just see more similarities in the comics than […]

Lucas and Russian Spies

Hidden Prey by John Sandford

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Yeah this book actually deals with Russian spies. Who knew how timely a read this would be for a book that was published back in 2004. The whole Russia thing was a non-starter for me. It just doesn’t work and it feels like Lucas is going through the motions. He has a new female Russia spymaster (or whatever she is) along for the ride as Lucas investigates why a man was murdered with ties to Russia. The only interesting to me in this one was […]

Reminded me of “If Beale Street Could Talk” Though I Didn’t Like the Main Characters

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

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Well I went into this expecting a compelling read. It was that at times. I think the biggest reason why I just didn’t get into this story that much was that the story should have stayed between Roy and Celestial. Adding Andre actually took away from both of them. And having the narrative go to their letters to each other was a bit hard to get into since the rhythm was off. Except for a few clues here and there you are pretty unaware of […]

Becoming is Inspirational

Becoming by Michelle Obama

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I apologize in advance if this seems a little incoherent. What a great memoir! Michelle Obama hits everything that I love in memoirs. She goes into her childhood, her family, how her parents and family shaped her. And then you get to read about how certain incidents throughout her life defined her. I laughed, cried, grieved, and got angry reading about all of the highs and lows in her life. And I ended up smiling when we get to the epilogue and know that she […]



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