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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Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

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I thought this was a good collection. Per usual, I rate overall and then for each story in the collection. Trigger warning: Rape I feel really bad I accidentally dropped this one in the bathtub the other day. I was reading (as one does) and then slip! And now it’s dry, but definitely a little swollen. Oh well! “The Switchin Tree”(5 stars)-I really liked this story that follows a young girl named Man whose family and community gets turned upside down in 1958. The children […]

The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen

The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger warning: Description of rape I was surprised at how much I didn’t really like this newest offering from Sarah Pekkanen. I think that the dual POVs was the reason why it didn’t work. And the ending was just kind of not finished in my opinion. But this one was a hard one to get into and I just didn’t really find some parts of it realistic. “The […]

The Chow Maniac by Vivien Chien

The Chow Maniac by Vivien Chien

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Great installment in the “Noodle Shop Mystery” series. I think that Chien has hit their stride. At this point you should know all of the key players and how things work. Reading this series at this point is like taking a nice warm bath. I liked this one much better because Chien included some Chinese mythology and it seemed to be more “serious” I think than previous installments. […]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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Wow. This was pointless. I understand why authors sometimes come back and do prequels to best-selling novels. You want to see how did person A get to where they are. But I really do not understand why anyone cared at all about Snow. Collins does not provide any insight into the character. And then the ending leaves some things unresolved that you can just ‘guess’ at. Ten bucks there’s another prequel coming out about [redacted] in a few years. And honestly, the worst thing about […]

Attack of the Fiend

Attack of the Fiend by Joseph Delaney

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“I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born.” Honestly, this to me was the book that really has things set into motion that I assume will play out across the series. We start off with Tom finding out that his family has been attacked, and the trunks his mam left her have been stolen. If you read the last book, you find out that his mam did something […]



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