Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR17
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • Suggest a Review
    • 2025 Registration
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

The Variants are evolving, breeding, speaking, kidnapping…… not good

October 27, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I searched Google for baby armadillo, because that’s how I’m picturing the Variant kids in my head. Baby armadillos are so effing cute, and not at all terrifying though, so my brain is wrong: The juveniles have evolved to be able to shoot venom from inside their armor-y bodies. Anyway, the juvenile Variants are bad news. The big ones aren’t slouches either though! With the help of human “collaborators”, Plum Island is attacked, and a bunch of cool people that we like are kidnapped. The […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

The Variants are BREEDING!

October 2, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

The Variants are still the new top of the food chain. They’ve got people in their lairs / meat lockers. They keep the people alive so that their meat doesn’t spoil. They’re adapting even more than before. Some of them have gills, others feathers, and some developed camouflage. The worst part though, is that they’re reproducing. There are now baby Variants, and they’re growing rapidly. Dr. Kate doesn’t know if they’re newest weapon will work on the babies… Also, the president and vice president are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith ·
· 0 Comments

The Variants are coming! The Variants are coming!

September 19, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Ok, so I finished book 3 (this book) the other night, and then IMMEDIATELY (like super instantly) started book 4, so I’m trying to separate the two. I should just go right to the CBR website and do my review before I start a new book. Especially the next book in a series. Anyway, here goes… As I inferred in my review for book 2 (I just reread my review), the Variants are doing terrible things to the human population. The human species is slowly […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

I read book 1 of this series on vacation, so book 2 is giving me beach flashbacks. It’s so not about the beach.

September 9, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

OK! This book is all about the super scary Variants. Good news / bad news… When Dr. Kate Lovato tried to “save the human race” from the hemorrhagic virus with a bioweapon she designed in book 1, it killed billions of people. That’s actually the good news. They all had this terrible Ebola-esque zombie hemorrhagic fever. So they really needed to be killed. The bad new is that 10% of the people hit with Dr. Kate’s bioweapon survived. You’d think this was the good new, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:35 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

Ebola mixed with something much worse!

May 24, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is book 1 of a 5 book series. I will totally be continuing this series! We start out with a team of soldiers in Vietnam who were part of a secret bioweapen project (not that they knew they were a part of it). They take this experimental pill and basically go nuts. They turn into violent killing machines. It’s such a huge failure, they scrap the “super soldier” program. Thirty years later, an elite army team embarks on a mission that sounds shady. A […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:23 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments


Recent Comments

  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission: Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2025 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in