Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The island might be unspoiled but some of its residents really stink…

Summer Shadows by John Harris Dunning, Ricardo Cabral, Brad Simpson and Jim Campbell

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The cover of Summer Shadows by John Harris Dunning, Ricardo Cabral, Brad Simpson and Jim Campbell is a tad misleading. It makes things look like a teen thriller in the line of a slightly darker Christopher Pike, RL Stine, or Richie Tankersley Cusick and the like. In other words, something from the late 1980s or early 1990s when I was a teen and actually reading realistic paranormal.  Instead of a “teeny bopper thriller with supernatural” we get sex, drugs, and vampires. We get some downright […]

We Sold Our Souls by Grady HendrixWe

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

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“We Sold Our Souls” follows Kris Pulaski. Kris is 47 and after a hellish night working at a motel realizes that her life has a hole in it that she never got back after her band Dürt Würk broke up in the 90s. Kris starts see billboards and ads that her former bandmate Terry is about to put on an epic show. And this makes Kris wonder what happened all of those years ago and what caused her band that was about to make it […]

Try to look away from the game of living and watching living

Spectators by Brian K Vaughan

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Spectators by Brian K Vaughan and illustrator Niko Henrichon is a train wreck I could not stop reading. This graphic novel (due late fall 2025) is in the vein of Revival by Tim Seeley and artist Mike Norton, and The Walking Dead but with fewer zombies and more ghosts.  When I finished my reader copy (and in fact through it) I thought it was the most screwed up book I’ve read in a while! DAMN! What an awesome read! There is so much going on […]

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

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“Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” follows 15 year old Fern. The book starts off with her father barely speaking to her and him driving her to St. Augustine, Florida. We find out that Fern is pregnant and she’s been taking away from her aunt’s home (where she had been sent) after she refused to stay i the house hidden. Now Fern is going to a home for other girls like her who will be kept hidden until they give birth. When Fern meets a librarian that […]

Cannonball! “Armed with a burrito, Edie rounded her car and sprinted to intercept the zombie.”

Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

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Olivia Dade may have asked herself, what if The Walking Dead had a baby with True Blood and it came out a rom com? What if fat women had post-apocalypse adventures and got the hunky vampire too? She may have asked herself those questions and then written ZomRomCom. Dade opens with Edie going after a zombie with a burrito to protect her seemingly oblivious neighbor, Chad. Chad is not only not Chad, he is also not oblivious. He is a vampire named Max* and furious […]

Stitch Head was the first creation. But not the last.

Stitch Head: The Graphic Novel by Guy Bass and Pete Williamson

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Cbr17bingo Favorite (in a favorite genre) Stitch Head: The Graphic Novel by Guy Bass and Pete Williamson is a cute retelling of the Frankenstein monster story with modern twists. Plus it includes the ideas of friendship and how they change and grow. While I am not in the BEST EVER category for this title, there was a coziness to it that I enjoyed, plus the humor was quirky and not too young or “stereotypical” (though there is some of that, too). Sometimes things are a […]



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