Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

There is Such a Thing as Having TOO MUCH of a Type!

Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson

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Okay, so, full disclosure: I’m trying to burn through my Kindle Unlimited backlog list, because I’m cancelling my subscription next month, because I hate a price hike. (The new fees system also charges readers more to pay authors less, which is corporate greed at its finest. But, theoretically, this review isn’t supposed to be my Rant About the Evils of Capitalism, but I digress). Lord of Eternal Night is your typical monster-y romance: ingenue protagonist gets sacrificed to the monster, finds out they’re not so monsterous after all, […]

Come for the Denver airport conspiracy theories. Stay for the lizard-people meet-cute.

White Trash Warlock (The Adam Binder Novels Book 1) by David R. Slayton

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“You’re a sword-wielding being of immense power, an immortal. And you’re teasing me.” “Yes, I am,” she said. “What use would I have for a mortal soul?” “I don’t know,” he said. “I’m not some sort of petty hoarder,” she said. “Not like dragons.” ― David R. Slayton, White Trash Warlock CBR15Bingo: North America square Adam Binder has been on his own for as long as he can remember. Disturbing visions have plagued him his entire life, the intensity peaking during his adolescence. Eventually, his […]

Sausage Dogs and Murder

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

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CBR Bingo, Edibles Arsenic and Adobo was a Cannonball book review choice, but I couldn’t get it from the library until after the discussion passed. Still, I do look a cozy mystery and I especially like a cozy mystery with recipes, I usually cook something from the recipes in the back of the book. (Full disclosure, I do not cook it, I show my husband the recipe and he makes it for me.) So I read this and enjoyed it, it was cute, and the […]

At least it was free

Jack and Andrew: Hope (A Southern Thing) by Samuel York

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CBR15bingo: Strange Worlds square – Evangelical Christianity in America and pray the gay away Jack is what his father calls “a man’s man.” Jack is the son of an evangelical Christian preacher and the oldest of ten children. He is terrified of his father and doubly terrified of what his father would do if he ever finds out that Jack likes guys. Jack’s youngest sibling, Billy, loves dressing up in girls’ clothes, wearing his mother’s pink lipstick, and playing ballerina. Jack watches over him, constantly […]

CBR15 Bingo: Strange Worlds

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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CBR15 Bingo: Strange Worlds 15-word-review: Delivering food during the pandemic leads Jamie Gray to a monstrously exciting new career opportunity. Longer review: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Jamie Gray is working a dead-end job as a delivery driver for the very same company he got fired from. One day, when delivering food, Jamie runs into an old acquaintance, Tom, who remembers that Jamie’s thesis was on science-fiction and therefore thinks the job opportunity that KPS, the “animal rights organisation” that Tom works for might be a […]

To Catch A Killer…but make it funny

Killing Me by Michelle Gagnon

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Read as part of CBR15Bingo: On the road. The characters here take a couple of road trips, don’t want to say where or why, lest I spoil a big part of the book. You know a writer is really good when you’re enjoying a book solely for the writing even if you couldn’t care less about the plot (and not much more about the characters). That’s high praise — or perhaps even damning with faint praise. But I really enjoyed the experience of reading Michelle […]



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