Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I’m sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don’t know.”

Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) by Louise Penny

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I’m officially hooked on this series. With the exception of books two and three, which I thought were dips in quality, this series just keeps getting better. Part of my enjoyment comes from this being essentially now a serialized story. The first four you could pick up out of order and still get everything out of them that Penny wanted you to. But this one almost entirely depends, narratively and emotionally, on the previous five books, but mostly the fifth. Spoilers for previous books to […]

Probably Not a Zebra

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Lethal White is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series, and it’s the one I liked best besides the first. This series has, on the whole, been a bit of a letdown for me. I really liked Cuckoo’s Calling and got excited about the possibility of a new series to enjoy, but then The Silkworm and Career of Evil were both so gross that I really didn’t enjoy them much at all. I still wanted to give this one a try because I like […]

A poor murder mystery in sci-fi clothing

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A murder mystery with sci-fi dressing, One Way is set in a not too far distant future in which humanity is about to colonise Mars. Getting there is going to be extremely costly though, and so the billion-dollar corporation responsible for the project has decided to cut corners. One of the ways in which costs can be kept down is by sending humans to do the initial habitat building required and, due to the dangerous nature of the work, disposable humans at that. Which is […]

Trying to review a series without spoilers

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Murder in the Mystery Suite   I think I’ve found my favorite of Ellery Adams’ series.  Murder in the Mystery Suite is what I was looking for in a clever murder mystery novel.  There is no magic and the romance aspect takes a backseat to the solving of the murder. It’s all more realistic than her other books, in that it theoretically could happen in an only slightly alternate universe.  The way the narrator pronounces certain words can be a bit irksome,  Jane Steward is […]

There’s fiction, and then there’s unbelievable

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Ok, so this is my second Ellery James book.  Things started out okay. Then they got weird.  Well, I mean things were a bit implausible all the way through.  Let me give some examples: We begin with our main character, Ella Mae, going home to Georgia after witnessing her husband’s infidelity.  So far, so good. The parts that I don’t get are: she found him boinking the two (reheaded) twins from another apartment in the elevator.  Like, she presses the button and the door opens […]

Tartting up Rick Riordan and Castle

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The Immortals strikes me as a combination of Castle and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. I liked Castle until the romance ruined it. In The Immortals, there’s a relationship developing between Selene (aka Artemis) and Classics professor Theo, but it’s not quite clear until towards the end what exactly it’s turning into. Selene is an avenger of wrongs against women in modern day Manhattan as an unlicensed private investigator, and Theo is the academic rock star with a bit of a past who gets pulled […]



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