Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Understandable how you could mistake this knife fetishist for a murderer, but he didn’t do it.

Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin

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Thanks to NetGalley, RBmedia, and Recorded Books for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Yes, this book was written by a TV chef. Apparently he was on Masterchef—I’ve never seen it. But unless he used a very secret ghostwriter, he did a good job! I truly have no idea why the ratings for this book are so low coming out of the UK*, or why the cozy mystery people have not come flocking (though this isn’t a cozy, it does have […]

The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas

The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  This wasn’t anything too surprising in the end. I just thought there were way too many plot holes to be believed and the ending was a letdown. I thought that the main character, Tasha, was written inconsistently. And per usual, writers make it seem like the police are just going to hard shrug about murders and let them go, especially when there’s enough evidence to make you go, […]

The Bachelorette Party by Camilla Sten

The Bachelorette Party by Camilla Sten

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. You would think a locked room mystery (an island cut off from everything except by boat or ferry) would be my jam, but this was boring and at times defied any type of logic. I think jumping around the timelines didn’t help either. All in all, just a snooze. “The Bachelorette Party” takes place off the coast of Sweden. During timeline one, we have four friends–Tilly, Anna, Linnea […]

The Lost House by Melissa Larsen

The Lost House by Melissa Larsen

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I was so hopeful on this one, but the book falls apart before it even gets going and the ending had me going okay then. I liked the idea of the Agnes going to Iceland to see if she can figure out what happened to her grandfather’s wife and daughter, but it was so hamfisted and it just didn’t work. I am realizing that maybe it would have been […]

Ghosts and Halloween are nothing to fear, but what about another holiday cheer?

The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt by Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler

The Little Ghost Quilt's Winter Surprise by Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler

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In 2020 The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt was published. And according to its publisher description, it became an instant Halloween classic. In July 2025 a new gift edition will be published. I am not sure how this differs from the original as I read this as an online reader copy. But regardless of the extras it might have, it will still be the same sweet book about being yourself and the adventures you will have because of it.  The story is sweet and […]

A champion, mimic and sorceress beat some bad guys and might have saved the world

Sword of the Champion by Eric Lide

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I have no idea when I started the online reader copy of Sword of the Champion by Eric Lide. I do know that it was sometime in early to mid 2024 as I saw I might not want to start it as it was such a future publication. So I put it aside and promptly forgot about it. (Sorry!) However, I was smart enough to know I needed to save as many links as possible to it. I am not sure why, but thankfully I […]



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