Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Two (Reviews) for the Dough

Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich

Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

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I thought I’d keep going with the Stephanie Plum series, til I either get bored and need a break or finish up all the ones I have. For the uninitiated, Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series is about, you guessed it, Stephanie Plum, a divorcee who loses her job and goes to work for her cousin as a bounty hunter. She pretty consistently gets in over her head, ends up in danger or injured at various times, and as far as I can recall, she never […]

The Marriage Trap

The Widows of Malabar Hill: A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 1 by Sujata Massey

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According to the book jacket, this is “a mystery of 1920s India” and that was enough to make me very curious. “The Widows of Malabar Hill” is a murder mystery, and a fine one at that, but it is also a picture of Bombay (not sure why it’s Bombay and not Mumbai) shortly after WWI from the point of view of a young Parsi woman named Perveen Mistry. Through her, Sujata Massey immerses the reader in a world that straddles the traditional and the modern. […]

The pecan doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The Lying Woods by Elston, Ashley

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The Lying Woods is a quiet YA mystery surrounding a family scandal. Owen has just been pulled out of his fancy boarding school upon the news that his father has left town,  taking with him millions of embezzled funds from the fracking company he runs. The company employed most of Owen’s small town, so when Owen is forced to return home and enroll in the public school, he doesn’t have any friends left there – as far as they’re concerned, Owen’s cushy life was lived […]

Called Every Plot Element, But This One Holds Up Better Than “Behind Closed Doors”

Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris

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So going to flat out say this is much better than “Behind Closed Doors” or that book I referred to as when a woman keeps doing really dumb crap for no reason besides plot. “Bring Me Back” had an interesting plot, but what kept me interested were the characters. I didn’t really care for Layla or Finn, but did find the story engrossing. I was very disappointed by the ending, it didn’t really hold up with the rest of the book. “Bring Me Back” follows […]

Please Save me From White Savior Books

No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman

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  SPOILERS BELOW ON BOOK. So I thought about trying to edit this to take out spoilers, but screw it, I am busy today and don’t have the time or energy. It didn’t help that I ended up straight disliking this book and loathing Tess’s boyfriend Crow. There was an interesting plot in there that the white savior crap got in the way of while I was reading. I think showcasing Crow’s POV actually made things worse. He’s a terrible ass boyfriend who resents Tess […]

How can one drowning rat save another?

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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I really try to write reviews shortly after I read the book. If I don’t, books often tend to quickly fall to the bottom of my memory well. I can tell you whether I liked a book or not, but that’s about it. I may have waited too long on this one, but here goes. Psychotherapist, Theo Faber, is just starting a new job at an institution for the criminally insane. From the beginning of the novel, he is a little fanboy about a particular […]



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