Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This book was a ride.

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

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What it comes down to with this book is that I just had a great time while reading it. I really feel like Janice Hallett is getting better with every book. She had the puzzle element down in the first book but I didn’t care about the characters or connect emotionally with the story. In her second book, The Twyford Code, I connected hard with the characters thanks to some clever twistiness and she still had the nice puzzle element, even leveled up a little. With […]

“Literarily speaking,” he said, and proceeded to lecture. Christie, he contended, was overrated. More of a popular author.

Last Word to the Wise by Ann Claire

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Ellie and Meg Christie, sisters and co-owners of the Book Chalet, have been winkled into testing out their cousin’s new matchmaking service. Ellie’s date is odious, but Meg hits it off with hers – until it seems like he’s stood her up for brunch the next day. Except it turns out that Joe Darcy is actually dead, and Meg is at the top of the suspect list. This is the second book in the Christie Bookshop Mystery series, a new cozy mystery series. I read […]

Panic! At the Book Show

I Didn't Do It by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

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I don’t have any perspective of being a published writer but as an aspiring one, I know all writers have an ego. You kind of have to; I mean, it takes a certain level of arrogance to think people are going to pay their hard-earned money to read what comes out of your brain. Hours, days of their lives they’re never gonna get back they’re willingly going to give you money for this experience. So yeah, you have to have one. However, I just attended […]

Monks & Nuns & Ivy Oh My!

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

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I’ve read some real stinkers lately but luckily this gentle gothic mystery wasn’t one of them. The story begins in London, 1925, with young Ivy Radcliffe hurrying to her appointment with an unknown solicitor. Ivy lives a life of poverty and struggle in the East End. She has lost her whole family somewhat recently, her father and brother in the trenches of the Great War and her mother of illness soon after. The solicitor informs Ivy that she is now Lady Hayward, inheritor of the […]

Fellow CBR reviewer for the win

Komarr by Lois Bujold

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I typically get bored or annoyed before completing most long sci-fi or fantasy sagas; Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is the lone exception so far. Lois Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga has the potential to join that tiny club, although to be fair, I’ve only read one, Komarr. I’m pretty sure I saw someone’s rave review on here, but I’m sorry I don’t remember whose it was. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this series before then, but I’m glad to have found it. Komarr is both very […]

I just can’t with this book

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

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Reasons why this book grated on me (mild spoilers but I don’t care, you shouldn’t read it anyway): Copious boob descriptions. Behold: The twin peaks that strain against the middle buttons of her blouse Her soaked T-shirt leaving her as good as naked from the waist up.  But even though her breasts were resplendent – small but perfect, with nipples standing up like finials in the pelting rain… The nipples inert in the heat of the day The way she let it all hang out […]



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