Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“All signs point toward your murder.”

How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 4/30 This wasn’t as clever as I wanted it to be, and I think it wasted the premise a bit, but overall I had a fun time reading it, and I finished it in a day, so clearly I can’t have that many complaints. The main plot features Annie Adams learning that she has just been made an inheritor of her great-aunt Frances’s will, a woman she’s never met, and traveling to the small town of Castle […]

Not for me.

Secret Identity by Alex Segura

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 2/30 DNF @ 30% I gave it the ole college try, as none of the kids say these days. But this book was not for me! I’m really sad about it, because the gritty 70s NYC atmosphere, the love of comics built in to it, and the MC being a queer daughter of Cuban immigrants trying to make it in comics publishing all really sounded like something I would love, but this book was so dull. What […]

Love Lies Bleeding

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

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What kind of book is Rainbow Black supposed to be? I speculate here because I finished it three days ago and still don’t know the answer or how I fully feel about it beyond, “I really liked it, loved it in some parts, wish I was moved by others.” It’s such a rigidly unsentimental book from beginning-to-end and I’m not sure if that’s what made me dock it or not because the writing here is so good. The book starts off with a bang. I was enthralled […]

Not as good as I wanted it to be.

Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1) by Catherine Mack

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Thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books, and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This was one of my most anticipated books of the year, and in that way it was a huge disappointment. I expected something funny, clever, and unique, and this wasn’t really any of those things. In fact, almost immediately I had a really bad reaction to this book and almost DNFed it because I was disliking the writing style, but I was buddy […]

Just kiss already!

The Late Mrs. Willougby by Claudia Gray

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Miss Juliet Tilney goes to visit her friend Marianne Brandon in her charming home in Devonshire. They haven’t seen one another since the rather unfortunate house party where Mr Wickham was murdered, and Miss Tilney and young Jonathan Darcy managed to discover who killed him. Jonathan Darcy finds himself the rather reluctant houseguest of a former school bully, Mr. Willoughby. He goes to see him so as to not make his parents constantly worry about his lack of friends, but is rather miserable until he […]

“Imagination is hungry, and needs to be fed.”

You Like It Darker by Stephen King

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I have long maintained that, for me, Stephen King’s short stories and novellas hit harder than most of his books. I just like them more; they are snappier. While I do enjoy taking my 1,000-plus-page journey to Derry in IT, sometimes it’s nicer to have a story come in, do its thing, and then leave. You Like It Darker is Stephen King’s latest short story collection and is a mix of previously published stories (something I did not realize until I was like, “Wait… have […]



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