Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featuring A Gold-Toothed, Tattooed, Mystery-Solving Nun

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

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Sister Holiday is not your average nun. She came to the Church later in life, after a misspent youth full of punk rock, tattoos, and a love affair that broke her heart. But she’s committed her life going forwards to the Sisters of the Sublime Blood, a very small progressive order located in New Orleans, and the only order in the whole country that would accept her. As one of the sisters, she’s also expected to teach at St. Sebastian’s, the parochial school attached to […]

“We all had tattoos, scars, secrets, and losses. We all wanted to be forgiven.”

Scorched Grace (A Sister Holiday Mystery, #1) by Margot Douaihy

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 10/30 The ending killed my buzz a little on this one, which up until then had been extremely interesting with arresting imagery (not something I normally care about!) and an extremely unique look at modern religion, from the perspective a queer, chain-smoking, tattooed Catholic nun who was a former punk rocker until traumatic events pushed her to seek solace—as her mother did before her—in a sisterhood of fellow nuns. Plus, there is a mystery here, but honestly, […]

Nun of the Above

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

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As readers, we all dream of books that are specifically written for us. Certainly, we sometimes like to be challenged and pulled out of our comfort zone. But most of the time, we sit around asking questions like: Man, I wish someone would write a book in the hardboiled vein of a badass Catholic nun trying to solve a mystery in sun soaked New Orleans. Or words to that effect. Anyway, yes, Margot Douiahy wrote a book that was basically fine tuned to someone who likes the […]



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