Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This is how I get in trouble when ppl ask me what books are about

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Wrong Alibi by Christina Dodd

Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

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Because none of these three books was technically focused on what these reviews are focused on, but still, I promise these reviews are about these books.  Somehow. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter – Gory & intense, but it probably should be, given the subject matter, which is kidnapping, rape, torture, missing women and children. It was a rough read, that’s for sure, but I also thought it was pretty good.  Thought the author did a great job of talking about the way tragedies impact families, how […]

Meat(ball) Cute

Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

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CBR Bingo: ‘Purple’ I loved Brynne Weaver’s Ruinous Love trilogy (consisting of Butcher & Blackbird, Leather & Lark, and Scythe & Sparrow) about serial killers falling in love, so I had been eagerly awaiting her latest novel, Tourist Season, ever since it was announced. Released last month, this is the first in a planned trilogy, set in the same universe as the Ruinous Love series, but with (mostly) new characters. The main characters are Harper, a resident of the seaside tourist town of Cape Carnage, and […]

“It’s okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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About a year ago The Ruinous Love books by Brynne Weaver entered my world, and now I’ve read the final one and it was just what I wanted it to be without me having known what I wanted it to be when I went in. Scythe & Sparrow tells the story of Fionn and Rose that has been teased since Sloane and Rowan show up on Fionn’s doorstep in Butcher & Blackbird. Fionn is the youngest Kane sibling, a doctor who walked away from a promising surgical […]

“I’d take a racoon to the face for you any day, Rose Evans.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Transportation Doctor Fionn Kane is doing just fine in the little Nebraska town he retreated to after leaving his promising surgical career and ex-fiancee behind. He doesn’t really want anything to do with the past-times of either of his brothers and is keeping his head down, running and working out when he’s not working in his small medical clinic or the hospital. He also crochets. Then a beautiful woman with a severe leg injury ends up nearly unconscious on the floor […]

Killers & Cotton Candy

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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So, I read the first two books in Brynne Weaver’s Ruinous Love trilogy last year. I didn’t expect much from the first, Butcher & Blackbird, and ended up loving it. Naturally, I had great expectations for the sequel, Leather & Lark, (review here), and while I liked it, it didn’t quite live up to the standards of the former. The third and final book, Scythe & Sparrow, was released a few weeks ago, so I picked it up, but I did go into it with […]

“There’s power in finding secrets and blowing them up in a beautiful, bright light.”

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

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The second book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy, Leather & Lark, hinges on a marriage of convenience trope, but that kind of undersells the stakes, this is a marriage of safety and sacrifice. Sure, it’s convenient to keep Lachlan and Rowan alive… but there’s more happening here. This book is way more character driven than its predecessor, but not because the characters are necessarily super strongly developed, but because the plot kind of disappears for a while. Action picks up about two years before the […]



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