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.

 

I read this so you don’t have to

The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn

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Warning: I’m going to spoil the shit out of this book because I don’t want to subject anyone else to it. I don’t normally post truly negative reviews (at worst, my reviews are lukewarm-ish). Most of the time when I don’t like a book, I stop reading it, and usually, it’s because I’m bored (and I don’t usually have much to say beyond “I was bored”, which hardly justifies writing a full review). I wanted to quit this book so many times, but the masochistic […]

Beauty and the Yeast Infection

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

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If this is what counts as a fairy love story these days, then consider me permanently checked out. A Court of Thorns and Roses is one of the most poorly written, boring, and utterly unbelievable ventures into fae romance I could imagine. Centered around a protagonist named Feyre — which is somehow both an absurd and fitting name for such a ridiculous character — the story begins with her starving in the woods and shooting a wolf with her bow and arrow. This apparently triggers […]

Slamming My Head Into A Wall Would Have Hurt Less Than Reading This Book

Over a God's Dead Body: A Supernatural Comedy by Joel Spriggs

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When Dorothy Parker said “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force”, she wasn’t talking about Atlas Shrugged, she was talking about Over a God’s Dead Body. Not only were there multiple grammatical errors, not only was the writing piss poor, but the plot, to put it bluntly, sucked. This read like the author and a bunch of the dudebros in his frat house/high school/ middle school playground/pick whichever group has the lowest maturity level, got […]

Unreadable Things

Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

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Well, that’s a bit harsh … but I found Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey difficult to follow and pretty boring. Full disclosure: I love thrillers and horror novels. The more real they are, the more terrifying I find them. So I was anticipating the experience of reading this book because it’s “inspired by a terrifying true story” according to the back of the book. And I am not super discriminating about the thrillers I read, either–I have torn through so many Freida McFadden books in […]

Wakey wakey!

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Oh, I love this! Die Zeit recently included this in a “Best of the 21st Century So Far” list. Since I had an unsuccessful odyssey trying to order Lapvona earlier this year and loved Moshfegh’s introduction to this short story collection, I had to buy it. I swear that’s the reason — I’m not creepily copying Zirza’s reading list, this just keeps happening! Anyway, our young, hot, skinny and rich protagonist decides to spend a year sleeping to recalibrate her body and life, as she […]

The Best Dick is Mysterious Dick

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

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I’ve read a few PKD novels by now, and now my favorite by far is Ubik. It is a true mindfreak of a novel. It’s got all of the stuff that makes a great science fiction novel – interesting technology and culture, real philosophical questions, and plain old entertainment. I ditched my plans this weekend to read this whole thing in two days. I can’t stop thinking about it. The story starts simply enough. Down-on-his-luck Joe Chip works as an anti-psychic. That may sound exciting, […]



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