Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Confusing, in a good way

The Reader by Traci Chee

by Leave a Comment

Sefia is the main character of this book, and we follow her journey throughout. As one does with the main characters. Her father was murdered when she was young, and is taken in by a family friend, Nin. Nin teaches her how to survive, and not just by following the law. Hunting and stealing are not about Sefia and Nin, which eventually leads to Nin being kidnapped. Sefia has no idea where to find her, or even begin searching. This was a good book, with […]

Rivers of London

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

by 1 Comment

I’m so glad I finally took the plunge (into the river wink wink nudge nudge) and started this series! Peter Grant is a police officer at the beginning of his career in London, a career that seems destined more for the never-ending paperwork division than the exciting chasing down dastardly criminals type. One night he receives some crucial information about a very strange murder from a witness who happens to be a ghost. This brings Peter to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Nightingale, the […]

Nowhere Nothing and I Don’t Care All At Once

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

by Leave a Comment

Potentially unpopular opinion forthcoming: I didn’t think The Atlas Six was all that great. There is little plot; not much happens in detail except time passing and people wondering what is going on with {insert current person and/or situation of concern here}. Not much happens with characters either; what is {person} hiding from the group and/or themselves? What is being hidden from them that might possibly matter? There is also not a lot of world building; this is a world in which there is magic […]

Might have found my worst of the year with my first of the year

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

by 1 Comment

1.5 stars Warning! This review will contain spoilers, because after my book club discussion yesterday, I’m actually quite cranky about this book, and it’s impossible for me to rant properly if I can’t spoil the heck out of these stories. Don’t worry, you don’t really want to read this book anyway. Also, most of the spoilers are only visible if you go to my blog. In a small, dark basement café in Japan, visitors can travel briefly back in time, if they observe a series […]

Nothing inspiring, but not horrible

Spark by Sarah Beth Durst

by Leave a Comment

This book was a high fantasy world in which the main focus is dragons. The setting is in this land surrounded by mountains, in which the weather is always perfect, because the dragons control it. Anything beyond the mountain range is the wildlands, in which everyone is bloodthirsty, and it’s not at all propaganda. Don’t think about it too much. I think the single best thing about this book was the level of immersion, the level that when you finish reading, you miss something so […]

Sigh. Scent memories are real, y’all.

Claimed by JR Ward

by 4 Comments

If you are a long time reader and/or participant in Cannonball Read, you may remember that Phatty and I reviewed several of JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood (BDB) series as PattyKates. (No, I’m not making fun of Patty. Ward likes to add the letter H randomly to names to make them edgy or something.) Unfortunately, we experienced diminishing returns with her books. We loved the first couple. Really liked the next two or three. Then quickly tired of the trauma, brand name dropping, grunting and […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo