Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Let Me Forget

Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh

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Anna Johnson is home alone with her eight week old daughter. It’s nearly Christmas, and Anna is struggling. Around this time last year, her mother took her own life. She jumped off the cliff in a copycat move that also took the life of Anna’s father several months prior to that. Anna’s partner Mark is loving and supportive, but when Anna receives a mysterious note that tells her her parents’ death may not have been suicide after all, he tries to talk her out of […]

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

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Please not that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Wow. I got nothing. This was pretty awful. I don’t even know what the point of this one was. It was so lackluster. Things happen, serial killers run about Maryland, and then more things happen. The book ends. I honestly wish that Roberts would just write a straight up thriller and ditch the romance. You can see her heart is not in it much anymore. Her latest romantic […]

Where Men Are the Worst, and Menopause Gives You Magic Powers

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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In a quiet Long Island town, three women of a certain age discover that they have more power than they ever thought possible. Jo, a former hotel executive, owns a women-only gym, and has hot flashes that can literally set things on fire. Nessa is a retired nurse who can hear the dead calling to her and see their unsettled shades. And Harriet? Well, Harriet hasn’t left her house in months, her garden has turned into a wild place full of unsettling plants, and there […]

Alas, No Pagan Rituals Involved. But Still a Fun Read.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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OK, gotta admit, this was not the genre I was expecting when I started reading.  Upstate New York Gothic is my third favorite type of Gothic (after OG British Gothic and Mexican Gothic), but it took me a minute to realize that this was not that.  Lack of girl school on the lake, to start with.  So what we are actually looking at is a missing child, actually two of them, story. The Van Laars are a wealthy banking family who own a large bit […]

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

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The ending and reveal on how things ended up the way they did really just ruined my enjoyment of this book. I really wish that Ware had went a different way with this one. I liked the whole idea of this being a homage of “And Then There Were One” with everyone being moved to a deserted island via a reality tv show. But once you get to how they all got there and why and the big gaping plot holes about why X and […]

Who Killed Annabelle Cartwright? Or, Surrounded by Narcissists.

The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen

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The media is calling it the Crime of the Decade – Georgia Cartwright, the glamorous eldest daughter of a wealthy South Carolina family, has been accused of murdering her younger sister. Whether it was jealousy – Annabelle was the biological daughter, while Georgia was adopted – or pure insanity is up for debate. But just to be safe, Georgia is being kept in the locked ward of a psychiatric facility while she awaits her trial. Mandy is reading about the crime in the news when […]



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