Cannonball Read 17

“It is early fall, the cold is beginning to descend, and in three months everyone in this house will be dead.”

Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito

October 3, 2025 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

It fascinates me, the fact that human have the capacity to mortally wound one another at will, but for the most part, choose not to. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House, the familial home of the Pounds family, fully prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll tutor her charges, … [Read more]

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:130 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: dark comedy, gothic, horrible people being horrible, Insanity, Virginia Feito ·

And now there’s a ghost cat, as if a dead body wasn’t enough.

Something Whiskered (A Cat in the Stacks Mystery #17) by Miranda James

October 3, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Charlie Harris is a mid-fifties librarian in a small college in Athens, Mississippi, who shares his house with a cast of characters, and two cats; Ramses, an orange tabby, and Diesel, a 35 lb. Maine Coon the size of apparently a Beagle (why this cat is not in the Guinness Book of Records, I don't … [Read more]

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:129 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: cozy mystery, Ireland, maine coon, Miranda James, murder mystery ·

“That is horrifying and I want to go home,” I said, although I pronounced it, “Ah, I see.”

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) by T. Kingfisher

October 2, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Alex Easton is never going to get a break. First, it's childhood friends of theirs getting slowly consumed by sentient mushrooms. Then it was nearly being killed by something that haunted dreams. And now, it's America. They never wanted to visit America, especially an abandoned West Virginian … [Read more]

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:128 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: mining, not the dog!, so many pronouns, t kingfisher ·

What Love Story?

Liquid: A Love Story by Mariam Rahmani

October 2, 2025 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

Our unnamed narrator is a post-doc struggling to find even adjunct-level jobs in the cutthroat world of academia. When she's told that she's not getting a single course in the fall, her best friend Adam - a marketer by day and poet by night - suggests she just try marrying rich. It's a joke, but our … [Read more]

RouletteGirl's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17, Mariam Rahmani ·

Dependable, violent fun from Ilona Andrews

The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

October 2, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: I If you pay attention to the writing duo/married couple behind the pen name Ilona Andrews, you know that they every once in a while publish serialized stories on their website/blog, and often these intended short stories turn into novellas or full novels. Apparently, half of them are … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:91 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Breach wars, cbr17bingo, ilona andrews ·

Not What You Expect To Happen in a Locked Room on Your Wedding Night

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

October 2, 2025 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Seishi Yokomizo is, at least according to Amazon, one of Japan's most popular mystery writers. His series of novels featuring amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi have only recently started being published in English translations, and The Honjin Murders is the first of the series. Kenzo Ichiyanagi … [Read more]

jeverett15's CBR17 Review No:60 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Seishi Yokomizo ·

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