Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

She’s a Killer Queen

Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain

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Read as part of CBR16Bingo: Part 2. This is the second in the Gretchen Lowell and Archie Sheridan series, which currently has six books and is apparently counting.  I’m trying hard not to be a jerk here. This is me. Look people should write whatever they want. And have fun with it. Writing books is hard. A gender swapped Silence of the Lambs? Hell yeah, baby! Sounds right up my alley, even if I don’t like serial killer books. Ok so this is gonna be a […]

Let’s Go, Bananas

The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen

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Read as part of CBR16  Bingo: bananas. The biography is on the life of Samuel Zemurray, the notorious “banana king” of United Fruit whose pursuit of wealth and product led to political destabilization in central America and the Caribbean.  It’s a shame that Samuel Zemurray has such an interesting story and yet only a so-so biographer. Rich Cohen takes on compelling subjects such as Zemurray and Albert Hicks (The Last Pirate of New York) but he tells their respective tales in such a slipshod and […]

James looked like a consumptive heroine from a painting, the kind that dies beautifully.

Dark Heir (Dark Rise book 2) by C.S. Pacat

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CBR16 Bingo: Dun Dun “What a pity you have two saviours and they’re both useless.” ― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir They called him the king’s blade in the shadows, though none knew the deeds that he was tasked to perform, or guessed that while many of the king’s victories were celebrated in the sun, they were won in the dark. ― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir There was something impossible about his beauty. He suited the sunset, as if he was part of the light that […]

“Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.”

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

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Towards the end of June Nart reviewed What I Did for a Duke by Julie Ann Long and I had an immediate urge to drop what I was doing and go find my nook so I could start a re-read. I don’t do a ton of re-reading but there was something about this story that has kept an urge to visit it again simmering in my brain. I had visceral memories of the way the characters spoke to each other being delicious, and the house […]

Stag Party

The Hunter's Daughter by Nicola Solvinic

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Read as part of CBR16Bingo: dun-dun. This is a mystery novel, also a backstory about the daughter of a serial killer, so there’s a lot of dun-dun to it.  Those who read my reviews know I’m not a fan of serial killer stories, particularly diabolical serial killer stories. It’s not just that Silence of the Lambs broke the mode, though that is part of it. It’s more because serial killer stories are so…F-WORD…boring! Oh look at me! I’m such a tortured soul because of trauma! And since […]

“Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark.” CBR BINGO – Smash (Cannonball!)

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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“There is a desperation to a novel that is unsettling. The world so painstakingly re-created in miniature; this tiny diorama made of words. Why go to all this trouble, to create me, to seduce you, to enumerate so many different breakfast cereals? To make the cunning tiny apartment, the itsy-bitsy Jinx? It’s like going to meet your new boyfriend’s family for the first time and discovering they are all paid actors. It’s almost easier to believe I’m real than to understand what’s actually going on. […]



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