Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Killing Pretty by Richard Kadrey

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Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday tooo meeeee. I got me some Richard Kadrey! As I demonstrated back in March and April, I love Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series. Killing Pretty was released a few weeks ago, but at a higher price point than my budget will tolerate, so I decided to save it for my birthday. And yes, I woke up this morning at 6:30, bought it and began listening to the audio narration. Now I’ve written an off the […]

Your French methods are surprising

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“Rene looked more hatchet-faced than usual.” This is my favorite Maigret yet. Our esteemed Inspector is only a whisper in the first ninety-some pages of this book: is he the “Broad-shouldered man”? No matter, there’s a cracking good mystery going on here. The setting is Liege, Simenon’s birthplace, and his intimate knowledge of the town and it’s underbelly really gives depth and quite a bit of humor to this story. Jean and Rene are a couple of young men out on the town. Jean works in […]

Ashwini the Guild Hunter finally catches her Cajun for good

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This is book 7 in an ongoing series, and as such, not the place to start reading. This review will contain some spoilers for the previous books in the series, because it’s impossible not to mention some of the things that have happened before this book began. The first book in the series is Angels’ Blood and I highly recommend it. After the devestating attacks on New York, archangel Raphael and his consort Elena are trying to re-group, rebuild and calm the population. When a […]

The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they are always lying

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This is book 3 of a trilogy. This review, and even the book summary, is likely to contain spoilers for previous books in the series. Skip this until you’re caught up. This is book 3 of a trilogy. This review, and even the book summary, is likely to contain spoilers for previous books in the series. Skip this until you’re caught up. In the third and final volume of Holly Black’s Curse Worker trilogy, Cassel has forced his older brother Barron into working for the […]

If people could murder you with a touch, you’d probably want them to wear gloves too

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This is the second book in a trilogy, and as such not the best place to start. This review will contain some spoilers for book one, because it’s impossible to write about this book without talking about things that were revealed in the first one. So if you are new to these Holly Black books, go find White Cat – that’s where to begin the trilogy. Cassel Sharpe lives in a world where a select percentage of the population have certain gifts. People who, if […]

One last Ride with Deputy US Marshall Raylan Givens

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Elmore Leonard doesn’t write mysteries, not really. The reader knows what is going on ahead of all the characters. The fun is in watching the characters learn the truth, seeing how they work it out in their heads, and then what they do with that information. The criminals are mostly dipshits. Charismatic and colorful, but still largely dipshits. It’s been a year since the events of Pronto and this time Deputy US Marshall Raylan Givens is trying to locate the recently kidnapped Harry Arno. Raylan […]



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