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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How to Love Your Neighbour

How to Love Your Neighbour by Sophie Sullivan

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I have been trying to finish this book for 5 months. It just did not hold my interest. Maybe because renovations are not that interesting to read about. And honestly, the design work that Gracie did sounded basic as anything. I started having flashbacks to that Nora Roberts Inn trilogy where we heard all about beds, painting, floors, etc. and my eyes glazed. Those three books became a hate read after a while. The romance between Gracie and Noah is good, it’s a nice slow […]

Suburban Hell

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So this wasn’t that great unfortunately. I loved the cover. I loved the synopsis. But it took me several days to finish this one. It just moved so freaking slow. And I just didn’t care about any of the characters. I kept hoping that something would happen, but nothing really does except for a scene about some baby rabbits. I just thought the whole book dragged and was hoping […]

The It Girl

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

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Well color me shocked. This may be the second Ware book that I have liked. The main reason why I gave this just four stars is I really didn’t enjoy the retconning of one character. I won’t get into it since it would be spoilers, but it just felt off based on what we read about what was going on between this person and Hannah while at school. The book does a great job of showing the “before” and “after” and even manages to do […]

Nettle & Bone

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

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This is only the second offering I have read by T. Kingfisher. I was blown away by “What Moves the Dead” so wanted to read a longer work. Definitely happy that I did. I would only say the only thing that was an issue was how slow the first part of the book was when reading. It got much better. But we start in medias res and you are wondering what is happening as you find Marra trying to craft a dog made of bones. […]

Castles

Castles by Julie Garwood

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Trigger warning: I just realized in the end, we’re dealing with a serial killer in this one. It gets graphic at times, but it didn’t put me off. Just wanted to point out to potential readers.  This was a great way to end the series. I would have loved one more book in the series, but there was really no one else left to follow. I loved the characters of Alesandra and Colin and thought they worked great together. The ending of the book was […]

The Gift

The Gift by Julie Garwood

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Trigger warning: It’s not shown, but we do know that one of the woman in this book is being physically abused.  Wow. This one and the next ended up being my favorite out of this series. By the third book Garwood has gotten her groove. I absolutely loved the characters of Sara and Nathan. We also get callbacks and scenes with prior characters Jade and Caine as well as mention of [spoiler] Colin. Who knew a book that starts with a child bride ceremony (seriously […]



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