Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Horror Month 2023: #5

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

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I don’t know that I’m ever going to be an out-and-out horror fan but I’m beginning to settle into the kind of horror I like and it’s similar to the kind of mystery/crime I like: give me characters, give them purpose. Why am I investing my time reading about this person, whether they’re doing something I find interesting (solving a murder) or not (turning into a werewolf)? If it ain’t got that purpose, it can’t hold my attention. Rachel Harrison does these kinds of character/theme-focused […]

A surprise favorite of 2023!

Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

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Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. Okay, but wow. So straight up it’s impossible to talk about this book in any depth without giving out information that should be preserved for the reading experience. As spoiler-free as possible is the best way to go into this one. But generally, and this is as far as the synopsis goes, Vesper Wright left her strict religious community six years before the book starts, when she was almost […]

Friends Forever Ever

The Return by Rachel Harrison

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Read as part of CBR15Bingo: In the wild. The story takes place mostly in a hotel set in the wild and also may-or-may-not feature a shifting character. You’ll have to read to find out! It’s such a joy when you pick up a story and connect with the writer’s style. I had been interested in this one for a few years since I saw it at the library. Horror where a best friend disappears and returns but is not the same…that had me curious. But […]

Here be spiders. (Cute ones! A little creepy sometimes, but cute. Do I like spiders now?)

Cackle by Rachel Harrison

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If you have been craving a feminist, witchy, creepy but somehow still cozy dark fantasy horror book, then here is a book for you! Our narrator is Annie, who just turned thirty, and fresh off a shitty break-up (her boyfriend of ten years decided he wasn’t into it anymore and just wanted to be friends, and then made her sleep on the futon) she decides to make a change, moving to the small upstate NY town of Rowan, which is cozy and beautiful and adorable. […]

The Last Month in Reading

The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher

Devolution by Max Brooks

The Return by Rachel Harrison

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

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I finished my last semester of college! I graduate on Wednesday! Yay!!! The last month has been completely filled with work and wrapping up assignments, so I haven’t read anything in the month of May. But I’ve got a few reviews from April that I never got around to posting, so here’s a dump filled with some great reads. Looking forward to having the summer to read! I think I said in a comment on my very first review for CBR (of The Hollow Places […]

“Will they stand their ground? Will they let you down?”

The Return by Rachel Harrison

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The return is Rachel Harrison’s debut novel which I listened to on audiobook from my library. It is the story of four old college friends; Molly, Mae, Elise and Julie. Not long after getting married, Julie disappears without a trace during a hike and is eventually presumed dead. Elise, our narrator and the friend who is closest to Julie, does not believe she is dead. She is proven right when, two years after her disappearance, Julie appears back home with no apparent memory of her […]



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