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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Great Horror Book, but Definitely Dated

A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson

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I really enjoyed reading this one! I watched the movie starring Kevin Bacon when it came out and I thought it did a great job with updating this source material into modern times. They do keep some of the same elements here and there, though they change the person who was murdered and why. I liked that since I then went into this book cold and had no clue who did what to whom or why. I will say though that this book was published […]

How to Fall in Love With a Peacock

The Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt

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There are slow burn books and then there is this one where nothing of importance happens for a good 70 percent of the book and then you just have an ineffectual heroine through most of the story who somehow saves herself in the end by talking. Definitely not one of Holt’s best. With a hero that I was rooting against and then the setting moving to Australia, this book just had too much that in the end didn’t work for it. “The Pride of the […]

Black Lives Matter

Stay Woke by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Please note this book will be released on September 24, 2019.  So I read this book a while back when I got it via NetGalley. I honestly just wasn’t in the mood to review it though. Not because it wasn’t a good primer about systematic racism and why black lives matter. But because I am just sick of justifying my existence to people out there. I don’t know […]

And This is Where I Leave You…

Secrets of the Chocolate House by Paula Brackston

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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 October 22, 2019.  I was hoping that this book could turn it around, but honestly I was just bored. You would think a book about time travel would be interesting, but it’s really not. I think Brackston is hoping to set up Xanthe so have an epic nemesis like in her “The Witch’s Daughter” series and I just cannot live through that […]

Return to Form with Silken Prey

Silken Prey by John Sandford

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Well it was a few short months ago when I almost quit this series. I was tired of the Letty is definitely a psychopath but let’s ignore it shall we that was going on in the series. And the total retconning of a character in order to make them die so Lucas could be “torn.” Bah. Fridging women characters is BS and I wish authors would stop. “Silken Prey” has Lucas trying to find out if a Senator running for re-election was looking at child […]

The Beginning of the Evil

First Evil by R.L. Stine

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Oh Fear Street, how I have missed you. I think next year for Halloween bingo I may just read nothing but Fear Street books for squares. This is the first book in Stine’s Fear Street Cheerleaders series. There are five books. As a teen I loved this whole series and couldn’t wait for all of the installments. Fear Street and Shadyside High sounded like such dark and scary places and I always cracked up when something would happen and the police would just be all, […]



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