Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Artist in Search of a Purpose (That’s Not Drinking Blood)

The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland

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Changed into a vampire by her step-grandfather and cast adrift upon the world, Anna falls in love and loses everything many times. Now a preschool teacher to the children of the wealthy, Collette becomes entangled in the troubled life of one of her students. Why do I keep striking out with vampire books? I’ve read a variety of takes on vampires, so I don’t think it’s not any particular trope that’s throwing me off. Maybe I just can’t take them and their existential angst seriously […]

It’s corn (I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing)

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

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One of the reading challenges I am doing this year requires reading a young adult horror novel.  I used What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell to check off that box.  To be honest I probably would have read this one anyway because of the haunted/mysterious corn maze, kind of punny title (corn has stalks …get it?) and time loops, well all those things check off internal “this is going to be good” checkboxes for me. The plot of the novel is that besties Sadie […]

Trapped in space with psycotic rage zombies

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

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Nowhere Book Bingo: An epistolary novel CBR16 Sweet Books: Binge (I have already bought the next two books in the series in paperback, so I can read all of them as soon as possible.) Official book description: Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing she’d ever been through. That was before her planet was invaded. Now, with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an enemy warship […]

Sabrina the Teenage Witches

The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

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Well they are all teenagers but definitely not the ABC Family Sabrina type witches, more the Netflix PG-13 type Sabrinas. Sadly no wisecracking Salem the cat here either, though there is a big silent demon. Zara Jones is desperately trying to find a way to bring her murdered sister back from the dead. Jude Wolf is a billionaire’s daughter suffering from a curse gone horribly wrong. Both girls urgently need a real witch to help them. Emer Byrne is a curse writer from a deceased […]

Weird West

Lone Women by Victor Lavelle

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“On Tuesday, Adelaide Henry had been a farmer. On Wednesday, she became a fugitive.” This is the story of Adelaide Henry who in 1915 takes off from her home in California in possession of a steamer trunk that has something trapped inside it.  Her parents are dead, and Adelaide is headed to Montana, planning to be a “lone woman” and going to homestead for two years before earning the land she has made viable for herself.  But the something in that trunk is going to […]

How Wretched Was My Valley

This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

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As this is a horror novel I wanted to start with some content warnings. The book contains a lot of gore, blood, and some body horror. There are instances of animal death(s) and, well, people deaths. Lots of deaths! I did not check content warnings before reading (that is on me) and was surprised by the level of body horror. This is the story of four adults (and one dog) who venture into the Kentucky woods to climb a previously undiscovered cliff face and conduct […]



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