Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Cat-and-mouse in the New Orleans bayous

The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart

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BINGO – Time (spoilers) I checked this audiobook out from my local library on a whim. I wanted a thriller/horror for Halloween time and this was available. I figured since the author, Alaina Urquhart, was the host of a popular true-crime podcast that this book would be a fun but forgettable book. I did not anticipate how much I would enjoy it. The book is told from the point of view of two people: Medical Examiner Wren Muller and a serial killer known as The […]

And I had such high hopes

Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater

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When I first heard of Swamp Thing: Twin Branches I figured it was going to be how the human who is to be Swamp thing became ST like the TV show of the 1980’s. (Good camp, bad everything else.) And like many of the DC graphic novels, Maggie Stiefvater was going to have a teen boy come of age and then, turn into part of nature. I thought it was going to be bittersweet but still nice. Afterall, I always thought that this creature was […]

Don’t say, “Bite me” to this family

What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

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What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo is not for everyone. It has an odd theme, with odder imagery (though no illustrations). Yet, while it is interesting nonetheless, it does have several weaknesses. Some plot point holes are one of them, and another (for me) was that the characters are not overly likable. One would assume that werewolves would not be likable, but you would hope that as a family unit you could empathize with them. But I have little empathy for a family that sends a […]

Name. Time. Hell.

The Hellbound Volume one by Yeon San-Ho

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This, to say the least, is an unusual book.  What is/was the point? Who are these people that grace the pages? Why do they do what they do? (Okay, the officer who had his wife murdered, and his son, make sense, but still). When is this book taking place? (Is it now? Or a future timeline? Or even an alternative timeline?) So many questions, so few answers in The Hellbound Volume one manga graphic novel. The creators, Yeon San-Ho, Choi Gyu-Seok, Danny Lim (translation) and […]

One typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won’t stop.

Asadora! Vol. 4 by  Naoki Urasawa

Asadora! Vol. 5 by  Naoki Urasawa

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The idea of this series is simple, a girl growing up in Japan during the late 1950s to mid-1960s. We see her ups and downs, all the while she deals with the government and trying to stop a sea creature so the Japanese can put their best foot forward so close to the end of the War, a war that left as many scars as the storm and monster have.  Asadora! Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa is a continuation of their not so horror graphic novel […]

If you think your flat is haunted by a murderous ghost, why would you try to summon said ghost?

Svarte-Mathilda by Tor Arve Røssland

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3.5 stars Twenty years after a teenage girl was brutally murdered in a small town near Bergen, Elizabeth moves into the long-empty flat with her mother. Elizabeth’s parents are going through a divorce, and in a tragic accident a while back, Elizabeth’s older brother died in a fire. She hates that they had to move away from her old home and her friends in Bergen, that her mother doesn’t seem to want to talk to her at all, and she certainly doesn’t like their new […]



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