Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

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This is Sarah Andersen at their best! This time instead of following Sarah, we follow the Cryptid creatures and their everyday troubles, laughs, and ghostly loves in Cryptid Club. We follow the trials and tribulation of Nessie, Mothman, Slenderman, Sam the Big Foot and friends who are waiting to give you a laugh or ten.   You might need to know a few of the cryptids involved or some jokes will fall flat (Slenderman is great with children) and what a Siren is (and why […]

Women are blacking out and they don’t know why

Blackout by Erin Flanagan

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Holy crap this started out rough.  I almost quit it a bunch of times.  It’s one of those books where it feels like the main character creates a lot of her own problems. Maris is a psychologist, mom, and wife.  She had a drinking problem for many years.  She quit cold turkey after a scary incident where she almost drunk drove with her kid.  Since then (in her words) she’s been “white knuckling” her sobriety.  She doesn’t ask for help, and she doesn’t let people […]

Stephen Graham Jones is a genius. That is my opinion but it is a correct one. #CBRBINGO – New

My Heart is a Chainsaw (The Lake Witch Trilogy, #1) by Stephen Graham Jones

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I am having such a good reading summer. I have had a plethora of five-star reads, including this gem. Also, this book tried to kill me by making me feel too many feelings. Fitting, with the body count and the genre. Like all the books I really love and that give me feelings, especially when I’m not quite sure where those feelings are coming from, I am having a really hard time reviewing My Heart is a Chainsaw. Jade is a teenaged girl in a […]

An intense and timely YA thriller.

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

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I’ve decided to keep this rounded down to four stars for now, because while the rest of the book was absolutely great, the climax was a little underwhelming for me, and that’s the moment you’re waiting for in a thriller. The epilogue ended the book on a great note, but this wasn’t a perfect read. It was very, very good, though, and I will definitely be checking out everything from this author going forward. If this is the book she can write at 21 years […]

“These creatures have no power to harm you”

The Living Demons by Robert Bloch

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CBR14Bingo: Question (each story answers the question of the story with a twist ending) This is a collection of Robert Bloch short stories that I got from somewhere I’ve forgotten as a stripped paperback. This was an easy train read for the 3 hour journey I was on this weekend. The stories are mainly pulp horror with twist endings. I wouldn’t say any of them were unjustly forgotten in favor of Bloch’s more famous work, Psycho. They read more like they were written with the […]

This b**ch bites

Baby Teeth by Meg Grehan

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 cbr14bingo Verse  Level 1 (prose verses)  When I first saw Baby Teeth I thought “Finally, a book that is ‘cover different’ and still eye catching.” (Or in other words, it was not “just like all the other” covers out there.) And then “Ooooh prose poetry.” (When reading I would think, “Less poetry and more ‘poetic’ though”). After finishing, I thought, “Meg Grehan. You are one weird person.” In many ways this is a sophisticated read (and at times made me feel like I was missing […]



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