Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Never Tell Collection

The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne White

The Other Side of the Road by Andrea Bartz

Scorpions by Rachel Howzell Hall

Everywhere You Look by Liv Constantine

The Bad Friend by Caroline Kepnes

Jackrabbit Skin by Ivy Pochoda

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OK this whole Amazon Kindle and Audible collection is called “Never Tell”. It’s supposed to be about secrets, lies, and mind games. Sounds intriguing, right? Well some of these six stories were really good – like five stars good. And some of them were “but why?” mediocre. Like “I guess this story had to be told, but why?” I’ll rank them in order from five stars to “but why” (according to me of course). Grace Logan, a successful ghostwriter is lured in by a new […]

How much does your maid see?

The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

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Two friends and I started a virtual book club. We decided to start with our Kindle Free Reads (totally not what it’s called, but I can’t remember right now!). This was the free book for February I think?   The main character is a maid named Kit. Her life seems pretty fine at the start, aside from not having a lot of money. She does have this problem where she snoops around in the homes of her wealthy clients though. She has a best friend […]

Great mystery and setting hampered by repetition

In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

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I’ve been in a bit of a book rut lately. I had such high hopes for the past few novels I’ve read, but they were all disappointing. I needed something reliable to give me a win.  A few months ago, I ran across Loreth Anne White’s In the Dark. I devoured the fast-paced thriller in a couple of days, and it left me eager to read more of her work. In the Barren Ground has rave reviews on Goodreads, so I thought it might be […]

In the Dark grabbed me and never let go

In the Dark by Loreth Anne White

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I actually read this back in January but have had trouble organizing my thoughts in order to review it. The problem is that it is so spellbinding that I absolutely blew through it. Afterward, I was left feeling like I had walked home during a windstorm – tired but invigorated. But a lot of the details were fuzzy because I read it so fast.  In the Dark is the story of eight strangers who have been invited on an all-expenses paid vacation at a luxurious […]

I read three thrillers about people getting murdered in remote areas — while attending a wedding in the literal woods

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

A Dark Lure (Dark Lure #1) by Loreth Anne White

The Dark Bones (Dark Lure #2) by Loreth Anne White

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Luckily, the woods I stayed in were friendly, not murder-y. Still, my scenery definitely lent some atmosphere to my reading. A Dark Lure (Dark Lure #1) by Loreth Anne White Scenery and atmosphere definitely make this book. It takes place in a remote part of Canada — where everything is covered in snow, people protect their own, and no one can hear you if you cry for help. It is out of this environment that Sarah Lake stumbled 12 years ago, after spending an entire […]

To my great surprise and delight, the dog lives!

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So spoiler alert, there’s an awesome dog in this book, and he doesn’t die! To me, that is very important information to have when reading a book. If it’s not important to you, then I really don’t want to know you 😁. A dog dying in a book really sours the whole experience for me. This book is about a serial killer and rapist who everyone thinks is dead. However, obviously he’s not. His last victim survived months and months of rape and torture. She […]



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