Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Siskel101

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The best gift my father ever gave me was a love of reading. He lost his batttle with cancer last year. I'm doing something we both love to support him.

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Enemies to Lovers Romance with a Little Bit of Spice

The Wedding Game by Meghan Quinn

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This came up as one of the Amazon February First Reads pick and I thought a good enemies-to-lovers rom-com was a good way to spice up my recent reading list.  Meghan Quinn is the Queen of quirky characters and witty banter. What woman hasn’t dreamed of getting revenge on the entitled white guy that demanded you fetch him a cup of coffee even though that isn’t your job? The story focuses on Luna Rossi, crafting genius, and Alec Baxter, jaded divorce lawyer.  The each have […]

Not another Night Circus

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

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Normally I review a book right after I read it, but I had to sit on this a few days.  I’m not sure I can do the book justice in a review. This read is magical, much like her last book.  Its set in a world of stories with a labyrinth of underground libraries you can only access through magical doors and guarded by a secret society.  The members of this society guard the stories and the Starless Sea. “A boy at the beginning of […]

A fresh take on Beauty and the Beast

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmer

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This is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast but takes place in a two worlds, a modern D.C. and fictional Emberfall.  The “Belles” are taken from our world each season and held as prisoner in hopes of breaking the Beast’s curse.  Our heroine is named Harper and she’s a bad ass with cerebral palsy.  She gets transported to Emberfell while trying to stop a man kidnapping an unconscious woman. I’m not typically a fan of Beauty and the Beast retellings because of Stockholm syndrome […]

I didn’t see that twist coming!

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

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The book opens  with our protagonist, Rowan, writing a letter to a lawyer/solicitor from jail, begging for him to help her. She tells him that she is innocent of a crime of murder that she did not commit and that she needs his assistance with her trial that is coming up soon. She wants him to help prove her innocence so she begins her tale. If something seems too good to be true, it usually is – or so the saying goes.  When Rowan comes […]

Interesting Historical Fiction

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

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This book is based on the true revelation that the CIA used Dr. Zhivago to spread the message about life under communism in the Soviet Union. The story is told from multiple perspectives with two of them being young woman who work as spies (Irina and Sally) during the height of the Cold War. They become involved with the CIA’s plan to get copies of Dr. Zhivago into the Soviet Union where it had been banned because of its portrayal of life under Communism. In […]

I read this in one sitting!

Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy Book 1) by Clair Legrand

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This story follows the path of two young women, who were born centuries apart but somehow connected by a prophecy.  In this prophecy there will be a Sun Queen, the savior of all, and the Blood Queen, who will bring about desctruction. The book bounces back and forth between the two main characters and timelines.  I confess that did take some adjusting to in the beginning, especially because the chapters are short. Because its the first in the trilogy, it is slow in the begining […]



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