Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Aladdin Fanfiction? I couldn’t possibly….*downloads immediately*

The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury

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So this book poses the question that I know we have all just been secretly dying to ask: what if the genie was a hot lady instead of Robin Williams? Turns out it’s a kind of cute and fun romance! And ok there are actually quite a bit of changes other than the hot genie lady thing. ‘Zara’ is the aforementioned genie who is found in her lamp after hundreds of years by the thief Aladdin. Aladdin uses his wishes to set up a plot […]

Foley Double Feature – Two books for the plot of one!

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

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My library decided to drop these holds on me a week apart even though they were expected WEEKS apart so I ended up getting both right after the other. I do not think Foley is for me after both these middle ground books. The Guest List I don’t think this book is necessarily bad, but I am not quite so sure why its so popular either. The Guest List is not your typical mystery/thriller, while we know that SOMETHING happens in the future what we […]

Who are the monsters here?

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

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Inti Flynn is a woman with A Past. She arrives in the Scottish highlands leading a “rewilding project”: her team is going to reintroduce wolves to Scotland, where they were hunted to extinction hundreds of years before. Not only is Inti a prickly character who understands wolves better than people, she also suffers from a neurological condition called Mirror Touch Synesthesia, which means that she feels the sensations of everything she sees. We also understand very early on that Inti has been profoundly damaged by […]

“You can’t discover what’s true based on how many people think it’s true.”

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

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I’m not going to let this excellent book be the one that let me get behind in reviews in 2022. I’ve been too intimidated to start writing this review because the book was so smart, so I sat down just now and decided I was going to type until a review came out. So that’s what’s happening here. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is just as cheeky as its title would imply. The book is (darkly) funny, and the story of Katharina Kepler […]

Not Quite Golden

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

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Ok this one is tough because I am not entirely sure what happened here. There is a lot of caps and exclamation marks and questions in this review. I guess I had some feelings. First, I think an audiobook might have been a mistake because there are points where I am honestly confused about what happened. Yes, I was cleaning while I listened to this but I do that with most audiobooks and am not usually so lost. It felt like multiple plot lines or […]

Wild Ride

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

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Y’all this was wild. It felt like getting wine drunk and watching a lifetime movie and you have to yell at the tv. Was it entertaining? Yes. Was it entertaining to me the way I think the creator intended? Ummm…….. So in Ugly Love we have a story in two parts. The first part follows Tate, a woman who moves in with her pilot brother and gets involved in a sexual relationship with the man next door. The man, Myles, tells her he can’t and […]



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