Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Mikki Blu

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I read to escape and to be entertained for awhile. My main choice is historical mysteries, with a side of supernatural. I don't want any part of dystopian books, or depressing reality tales - there is quite enough of that in the news these days! I'm a social media failure - I don't tweet, Instagram, Tumblr or Facebook - who has the time when there's books to read?

Mikki Blu's Reviews:

Diamonds and death

Secrets in the Stones by Tessa Harris

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This is book six in the Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mysteries, which are the exploits of an American anatomist in 18th century London.  I had read book two last year, and somehow didn’t realize this one was four books after that already.  Still, I was able to pick up the threads of the series without too much effort again. It begins with a duel between Thomas and another man, over the affections of Lady Lydia Farrell, whom Thomas hopes to marry.  She has been through some […]

Holmes would not be amused

The Mangle Street Murders by M.R.C. Kasasian

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The first in the charming, evocative, and sharply plotted Victorian crime series that is “a deft blend of accuracy and frivolity, sure to please lovers of historical mysteries.” (Shelf Awareness) So this is book one in the Gower Street Detectives, and based on the above blurb I thought it would be right up my alley.  It’s set in Victorian England, telling the tale of of a young woman who has arrived to stay with her guardian after the death of her father.  March Middleton, the […]

It’s a bloody thing, being a vampire

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Coldtown was dangerous, Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them. So imagine you wake up from a party to find you are seemingly the only one alive in the house – all your friends are dead, drained of blood by vampires.  This is how this book begins – with Tana freaking out over the discovery, finally finding her ex-boyfriend Aiden still alive but infected, along with a mysterious stranger.  They manage to escape, just […]

Faerie court intrigue at its finest

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Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. This book by Holly Black is the first in a new YA series, The Folk of the Air, set in the treacherous High Court of Faerie.  I haven’t read anything by Ms Black previously, but I’ve been in a reading slump for a few months and this book looked promising when I saw it in the hot titles section at the library.  The first […]

A showgirl’s life

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This is a book that may not be for everyone – there are issues of child sexual abuse, self mutilation, drug addiction and some domestic abuse.  In saying that, it’s also a well written, powerful story of a young woman who has to battle her demons and come out of it into a better place.  It’s also a story that has strong female friendship among the glitz and glamour of old Las Vegas in the 1960s, which Ms Church portrays very well. It begins with […]

A tale of two orphans

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The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one’s origins. It might also take true love. This is the blurb about this book, which led me to believe it would be a kind of off beat tale of eccentric circus type […]



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