Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

Bird families and our own

A Bird Will Soar by Alison Green Myers

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Axel is fascinated with an eagle family nesting in the woods behind his house. He loves all birds and everything about them, but checking in daily on the eaglet (eaglets?) and their parents is particularly meaningful. When a tornado decimates Axel’s neighborhood and injures one of the eaglets, his world is rocked. Under the capable hands of the local wildlife rehabilitation vet, Axel hopes the bird will heal. And in the meantime, his own broken family attempts to piece their home and their lives back […]

A very lovely romance about two complex people on the search for belonging

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

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4.5 stars 15-word review: Trying to get some direction in her life, Georgie turns to a new-found teenage journal Longer review: Georgie is feeling adrift. She’s worked as a personal assistant for a number of industry people in L.A, and was really good at it. Now, however, her former boss decided to retire to the countryside and doesn’t need a P.A. anymore. Georgie is free to go home to her family to realise her own dreams, the only problem is, she has no idea what […]

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

Dead Man Dancing by John Galligan

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Two years ago, I spent a weekend up near Spring Green, Wisconsin, and discovered Arcadia Books.   It was there that I bought my first Bad Axe County mystery featuring Sheriff Heidi Kick.  It was one of the best books I read that summer, and when I wrote this review, I was eager to track down Books 2 and 3.  However, for some reason, I didn’t. However, two weeks ago, I found myself back up in the area (meeting with the same friends for a long weekend) […]

Love is a bourgeois construct

The Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon

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An anti-romance, sometimes referred to as a satire, is a type of story characterized by having an apathetic or self-doubting anti-hero cast as the protagonist, who fails in the object of his journey or struggle.  (Wikipedia) Ruth Patchett lives in a nice suburb of Eden Grove. She is married with two children, a dog, a cat and a hamster. The house has two bathrooms and picture windows. It is very new. It is a good life. Unless you consider the fact neither husband nor children […]

I can’t think of a reason not to give this five stars.

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

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Just FYI, I do not want to write this review. I’m feeling real cranky but I need to catch up on reviews, and it just so happens that I have to write a review for this book that was just a perfect little YA romance that I don’t have much to say about (this may change as I type), so I’m just basically starting this review by stream-of-conscious word vomiting to try to get the thoughts flowing because I read this back in fEbRuArY. Oh, […]

Ice Queen

The Stolen Heir by Holly Black

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I absolutely adored The Folk of Air trilogy so naturally, I’ve also been reading all the additional novellas and follow on novels associated with the series. That is, however, also where I went wrong with this one because I thought it was another stand alone novel in the world, like How the King of Elfhame learned to Hate Stories and as a result, I think my expectations were a bit off vs what I got. This is the first of a duology so there is a bit more […]



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