Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

An absolutely excellent horror novel that deals with disability, postpartum depression, marriage, income inequality, and never feeling like you quite belong.

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. My initial thoughts as posted to GR upon reading the summary: “biTe mArKs oN tHe bAbY”. You can tell by the funky usage of capitals that I was very intrigued and disturbed by this book’s possible contents. And it turns out my excitement/interest radar wasn’t wrong. This was fantastic, in a horrible, creepy, bugnuts and all kinds of fuckery sort of way. The general premise here is inspired […]

Creepy yet unsatisfying jaunt into a Japanese underworld with games.

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I liked this, but there are some pretty significant things keeping me from giving this any higher than three stars. The biggest problem being that several of the twisty details and reveals make no sense, and we get no explanations for them. Some of this I guess I can write off if it turns out this will be a series [note: yes, it will be a series, it […]

A genre-bending good time.

Mrs. Plansky's Revenge by Spencer Quinn

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge, a book I’m having a hard time slotting into a particular genre, isn’t going to rock your world, but you will probably have a good to great time with it. Just a solid, fun little book that tweaks your emotions a tad every now and then. I guess let’s call it cozy crime/adventure. It’s not a mystery, not a thriller, not (despite what the title […]

“Our minds do this all the time. They talk us out of things we don’t want to know.”

Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen

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Thanks to Macmillan Audio for the unsolicited audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. The blurb makes this one sound really interesting, which is why I accepted the ARC from the publisher. Catherine’s mother Ruth has been newly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, but some odd incidents lead Catherine to look into her mother’s past—their shared past—and secrets come spilling out not only regarding where her mother came from, but what her mother is doing current day, and even her medical diagnosis. […]

A surprise favorite of 2023!

Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

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Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. Okay, but wow. So straight up it’s impossible to talk about this book in any depth without giving out information that should be preserved for the reading experience. As spoiler-free as possible is the best way to go into this one. But generally, and this is as far as the synopsis goes, Vesper Wright left her strict religious community six years before the book starts, when she was almost […]

CBRBINGO – GETAWAY: Did I look up a bunch of hair braiding tutorials after listening to this? yes, yes i did

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I’m seriously so torn on whether to round this one up or down. I’d written this author off after reading their first book, which didn’t work for me at all. But this premise sounded really cute and I’d seen some good-ish reviews, so I thought I’d give them another shot. And this is indeed a much better book than their first! (I still don’t want to read […]



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