Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Where will you be when the world ends? (in a Taco Bell?)(Seems likely!)

Apocalypse Taco by Hale, Nathan

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Parents, have you ever thought to yourself, “When will I be able to share my love of bizarre, gory sci-fi horror b-movies with my child?” Has your kid ever picked up David Lubar’s “Campfire Weenies” series and said, “Man, it just ISN’T WEIRD ENOUGH!”  Does your tween love Stranger Things but wish it had a lot more “WHAT THE FUCK?” My friends, do I have the book for you! I’m a huge fan of Nathan Hale’s “Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales” series, which is a graphic […]

Dreamcatcher meets Lord of the Flies

The Troop by Nick Cutter

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Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I think I’ll go and eat worms! Big fat juicy ones. Eensie weensy squeensy ones. See how they wiggle and squirm! I will never again see that rhyme the same way. This book is bloody disgusting. A foul, body-horror, visceral experience usually reserved for John Carpenter movies. I was utterly unprepared to be so repulsed by the mere written word. The story centers on a troop of five 14 year old boy-scouts, their honourable scoutmaster, and a (very very […]

Wonderful Merge of YA, Fantasy, & Horror

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

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I don’t even know what to say. This book will break your heart, make you shudder in fright, and have you widening your eyes over how Connolly changes up some of our favorite fairy tales and myths. I thought this book was great from beginning to end and I worried throughout about would happen to David (our young protagonist). The book’s writing and flow were exceptional though in the end I wanted more. It felt like the book ended too soon. “The Book of Lost […]

Earlier Dean Koontz with a Pseudonym Doesn’t Work

Icebound by Dean Koontz

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So I found this book on my shelf and I don’t remember it at all. I either DNFed this thing or just erased the memory from my head because it was awful. At times I kept getting a case of deja vu, though now I realize it’s because I was mis-remembering this book along with Dan Brown’s “Deception Point.” That’s another terrible book that I don’t even want to get into right now. Look this is going to be short (for me). This book was […]

A Supremacy of Dunces

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

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Here’s my problem with The Last Widow: I wish I could say it was implausible and over the top, and ten years ago it would have been, but unfortunately, it’s not, and that makes it a scary and gripping read, but not a particularly comforting one. There’s nothing in this book that hasn’t happened before, and it’s going to happen again, sooner rather than later. We all know it. Karin Slaughter certainly does; there is a bleak and cynical current that flows through this book; […]

Sherlock vs. Elder gods, round 2

The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities by James Lovegrove

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Middle portions of the trilogy are always difficult. There is not the excitement of starting a story nor the anticipation of a conclusion. So how do you make the middle volume interesting?   In the case of this book the author changed things up a bit and focused much more on the Lovecraftian Elements then in the first book in the series. The strategy is largely successful. Lovegrove incorporates elements from a wide variety of Lovecraft’s tales From his stories involving the dream cycle to […]



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