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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Needed More Development

Redesigning Happiness by Nita Brooks

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Please note that I received this book for free via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. This book will be released on July 30, 2019.  So this book definitely needed a lot more development with the core characters and better writing in general. Yvonne and her “feelings” for the father of her son, Richard, was not believable. Heck her being in a relationship with Nathan didn’t feel believable. I also had a hard time believing that Yvonne was supposedly a sought after […]

Problematic Protagonist with Heart

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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So here’s the thing. Some people are not going to like this book. They are going to be upset by how Queenie conducts herself and how messy (she was super messy) her life was and how it’s not a good look for a black character. I would argue that is wrong. I don’t mind messy books or characters. Those books feel more real to me. I like the underlying message this book had about mental health and how our pasts don’t have to dictate our […]

Somehow Worse Than the First Davenport Novel

Dark of the Moon by John Sandford

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I still say that John Sandford was trolling his readers with the first book in his series. He took all of the complaints of the Lucas Davenport series and just went to level 10 with everything. Lucas was a man that no man can say no to, Virgil rolls into town and gets a woman interested in him in like 5 minutes. Lucas does things out of bounds, well Virgil just goes and works around local law enforcement until he needs them as well and […]

Prequel to Beginning of Series Offered No New Insights

A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George

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Seriously you guys. I hard shrugged this book throughout. Why George decided to throw out a book that shows events that took place before the first book in the series baffles me. Also there’s just a look at Havers and that’s it. I cannot read a whole book following Lynley and St. James again. My head was done in. Also the casual way that everyone reacted when a character was almost raped just made my jaw drop. Also the plot line following who murdered several people and […]

DNF at 10 Percent

Written in Red by Annie Bishop

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Look I tried. I could not get into this. Life is too short for books you are not enjoying. I ended up DNFing “Written in Red” the first book in the Others series at 10 percent because nothing I was reading was holding my interest. We have a prologue setting up the setting of the book and now we are just following a young girl on the run named Meg. We find out that Meg is trying to garner help from “The Others.” dun dun […]

This Was a Heck No Times Two

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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Seriously…I see that some of you all liked/loved this one but I am baffled. This is up there with “The Catcher in the Rye” with most loathsome young adult character I have read in like decades. Flavia is dancing towards being a psychopath. I would have brained her for the crap she was doing to her two sisters. And all of them were just the most dysfunctional family ever. I can’t even tell you much about the murder. Someone was murdered. Flavia “investigated”. Bah. At […]



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