Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

We’re all mad here

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

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I never would have picked this on my own – it was a book club choice. On the other hand, it definitely wasn’t boring and it was short. Hungerstone was the other horror novel set in 19th century England I read in October, and I will say as bonkers as Victorian Psycho, I also preferred it because it just kept me engaged – like a train wreck(Hungerstone was just kind of boring). As much as the narrator’s actions might make you cringe, there’s also just […]

This broke my heart, and not in the good way

The Dravenhearst Brides by Lindsay Barrett

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I haven’t had a book break my heart the way The Dravenhearst Brides did in a long time. Since Lindsay Barrett is a new to me author, I went in with few expectations, but I was immediately drawn in. The Dravenhearst Brides is a gothic romance set in Kentucky in 1933, towards the end of Prohibition and is described as a loose retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Since the book is a loose retelling of Rebecca, I wasn’t surprised that two of the characters […]

A Two Week Vacation with Everyone who Hates You at Murder House

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles

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Zeb Wykham doesn’t much care for his family, but when a cousin says he wants to get to know him, Zeb accepts an invitation to spend two weeks at Lackaday House on Dartmore. Zeb is distressed to find that his brother, sister-in-law, another cousin, a fourth older relative, and his ex are all there too. His host has lied about the purpose of the visit. Instead of a cozy getting to know you visit, Wynn Wykham has decided he will make the man who marries […]

Gals being literary rivals, then pals, then more?

Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

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Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. Lady Georgiana Cleeve was disowned by her father when she announced that she was the author of several popular novels, and has lived alone with her mother ever since, cut off from all contact with her brothers, convinced that the scandal she brought on herself and her family would irrevocably tarnish the reputations of anyone connected to her. She is selling well and her books are popular, but for […]

“It is early fall, the cold is beginning to descend, and in three months everyone in this house will be dead.”

Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito

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It fascinates me, the fact that human have the capacity to mortally wound one another at will, but for the most part, choose not to. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House, the familial home of the Pounds family, fully prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, teach them about the French Revolution, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines dealing with the dreary family, the […]

Not Enough Bite

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

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I wanted, probably even expected, to like this more than I did. I was so excited about a sapphic vampire story that predated Dracula but that isn’t really talked about—I certainly hadn’t heard of it until some time within the past year. The book is narrated by Laura, who lives with her father in an isolated castle. They take Carmilla in when she is injured in an accident just outside of their home, and the two young women become close. Meanwhile, other girls and women […]



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