Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Suburban Hell

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

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Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So this wasn’t that great unfortunately. I loved the cover. I loved the synopsis. But it took me several days to finish this one. It just moved so freaking slow. And I just didn’t care about any of the characters. I kept hoping that something would happen, but nothing really does except for a scene about some baby rabbits. I just thought the whole book dragged and was hoping […]

The It Girl

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

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Well color me shocked. This may be the second Ware book that I have liked. The main reason why I gave this just four stars is I really didn’t enjoy the retconning of one character. I won’t get into it since it would be spoilers, but it just felt off based on what we read about what was going on between this person and Hannah while at school. The book does a great job of showing the “before” and “after” and even manages to do […]

the great 2022 Bingo Catch-Up!

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

From Hollywood, With Love by Scott Meslow

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer

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It wouldn’t be CBR Bingo without me frantically catching up on everything I read but was too distracted to write about, now would it? Square: Cold – Fool Moon – DNF This is it, folks- my first DNF in YEARS! I just couldn’t do it. I started this book way back in JANUARY, and despite multiple formats and multiple tries, I just can’t do it. I know there’s a mythical “it gets better” carrot hanging out past the fourth entry, but I just don’t have […]

Satisfying conclusion to fun fantasy trilogy – CBR14 Bingo: Shadow

Siege of Rage and Ruin: Wells of Sorcery Book Three by Django Wexler

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CBR14 Bingo: “Shadow” – One of the wells of sorcery is Shadow, gifting the user with the ability to switch places with their shadow and move between shadows. Siege of Rage and Ruin is the conclusion to Wexler’s “Wells of Sorcery” trilogy that started with Ship of Smoke and Steel, and was followed up by City of Stone and Silence. Isoka’s plan is simple.  Sneak ashore outside Kahnzoka’s harbor.  Hitch a ride with a merchant traveling to the city.  Get to her sister Tori and slip […]

A Fairy Tale Beginning, but not the Disney Kind

Norroway Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway by Kit & Cat Seaton

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Bingo 8: Camel So this is both thematic and literal adaptation. Norroway, Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway is both thematic in that the main character (and maybe at least one other individual) has to adapt to all the new things going on in her world, and also this is a graphic novel adaptation of a Celtic fairy tale. Sibylla is the heroine, who is pretty standard for a certain kind of fairy tale: she want more out of life than most of her […]

A Job No One’s Ever Heard of But Sounds Kinda Cool

The Incredible Journey of Plants by Stefano Mancuso

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Bingo 7: Elephant This is going to be more of a thematic elephant and a major issue I had with key bits of the ideas; The Incredible Journey of Plants is about plant migration, and the various mechanisms plants have to get themselves places or grow in places you’d think would be impossible. The author blurb includes the following: “Stefano Mancuso is one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of plant neurobiology”. First of all, did anyone know this was a thing one […]



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