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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Weather Girl

Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Trigger warning: This book has a solid trigger before reading warning readers regarding depression and suicide.  Thought this was a solid romance though have to say that the initial crush/like that Ari has on Russ doesn’t really ring true. I wish that Solomon had explored more why Ari was so ready to open up to Russ but not to her former fiancée who complained about her wearing a false face about how happy she was. I never got the sense he didn’t love her or […]

The Children on the Hill

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

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McMahon is such a hit or miss for me. The latest, was definitely a miss. I liked the idea of reimaging Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, but the results were not that great. I think that if the book had stayed more focused on the past before moving onto the “present” maybe the book would have worked better? I don’t know. There were so many plot holes that after a while I just threw my hands up in the air. Also there was a weird subplot with […]

Empty Smiles

Empty Smiles by Katherine Arden

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Sorry but this was just a solid 3 stars. I think the biggest issue is that Arden tried to rewrite The Smiling Man and based on the first book in the quartet it never squared. We also didn’t get a lot of time with our trio of Ollie, Coco, and Brian together. The ending also just felt very rushed. Finally, the whole book was pretty short. I got to the 80 something mark and the remaining part of the book was excerpts from the first […]

Desperation in Death

Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb

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I will say one thing that is something that I didn’t want to mark this book down for since the book setting is 2061 in an alternate version of the United States. Most sex trafficking victims are marginalized people. Also most girls are not just kidnapped off the street like “Desperation in Death” shows. I don’t want to jump up and down on this book too much for this, but wanted to point that out to potential readers. I also say this because there’s a […]

The Weight of Blood

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

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Wow, that a fun retelling of “Carrie” by Tiffany D. Jackson. She did her own spin on it, and incorporated many different elements that make it more updated. I have to say though, I wish that Jackson had followed along with how King chose to end Carrie. The ending on this one didn’t really work for me and it was honestly not realistic. It took me out of the story a bit. “The Weight of Blood” follows a podcast that decides to take on the […]

Vampire

Vampire by Richie Tankersley Cusick

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A solid YA horror novel with some elements that at times had me going what is happening a few times. The only thing that gave me pause was our heroine (Darcy) possibly getting involved with a relative in the end [read the book if you want to know about all of that]. I loved Richie Tankersley Cusick books as a teen and I still like them now even though I noted some minor things here and there. The main reason why I gave this 4 […]



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