Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“With this book, I wanted to pit a man freed from all responsibilities but his appetites against women whose lives are shaped by their endless responsibilities. I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom. As you’ll see, it’s not a fair fight.”

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

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Despite very recently giving five stars to the latest Grady Hendrix weirdo horror book (review HERE), I was surprised by how much I liked this. As I’ve been exploring the horror genre over the past year, I’ve learned that my tastes usually run towards the lighter end of the horror spectrum, and that I don’t do well with gore and violence just for gore and violence’s sake*. I need that sort of thing to have a purpose, and I need it to not make me […]

A bit of a perplexing read for me. Half of this was great! The other half was . . . fine.

Sign Here by Claudia Lux

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I held off on rating and reviewing this book because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it and I wanted to “let it simmer a bit.” I regret this stupid decision now because I still don’t really know how I feel about the book, and now I also don’t really remember the book! I mean, I remember the book, but I don’t remember like most of the characters names. Who knows what else I’ve forgotten. What I do remember is that this book is […]

“You really named her ‘Linnea’?” “Linnea’s a survivor.” “She dies in every movie.” “Her characters do, but she goes from movie to movie,” Letha says. “She never dies.”

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Lake Witch Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones

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So this was a really good book! But it had extremely large shoes to fill. My expectations weren’t that high for it, but only because I purposefully set them low knowing that living up to the genius that was My Heart is a Chainsaw was just going to be a really tall order. I feel like I need to re-read both this one and the first one pretty soon and take it slowly, and tab and annotate, because I got in my own way here. […]

“For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.”

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

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This was a weird and unique read. If you like darker fantasy that plays with ideas as the basis for stories, this might be a good one for you to check out. It was relatively short, but the imagination the author showcases was really fun, and the icky elements were icky in a good way. I’m not quite sure how to talk about the book, though! The main character here is Devon, a Book Eater, which is a human-like being who instead of eating food, […]

I couldn’t think up a title so this is my title.

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

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This is a tough one to rate because half of my strange reaction to it is I’m sure just bumping up a little against the writing style, but the other half is that it genuinely could have been written better in parts. There was A LOT of telling not showing, and the third-act conflict made the MC come across as pretty stupid. A lot of the elements here were interesting individually but didn’t seem to come together at the end? Our main character is Kari […]

Wolf Women

Watch the Girls by Jennifer Wolfe

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Whew. This book is something. Don’t know if I loved it or hated it but I know I won’t forget it! I almost quit it five times and yet I couldn’t put it down. I can usually handle bleak, depressing crime fiction but oh man, this one is bleak!* It mostly works until it doesn’t…but the ending kind of comes together but it doesn’t? I really need more people to read this so I can parse it out. A few more points… -Loved: Jennifer Wolfe […]



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