Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I honestly am shocked at how much I loved this newest offering by Hawkins. I did not care for “The Heiress” and thought there was too much going on in that book to really enjoy it. “The Storm” though has the perfect plot (who killed a Presidential hopeful in the 80s, his teenage mistress or a storm?) and the characters we meet are really intriguing. I found myself […]

The corruption of the rich

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

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I think I discovered The Heiress (2024) by Rachel Hawkins when I was browsing through my library app looking for available books. Surprisingly, I don’t think I saw it on any lists. But the first paragraph was written well, and the main characters were living in Golden, Colorado–a town close to my heart. So, I decided to read it. The Heiress is the story of a very rich family in Tavistock, North Carolina. They live in a beautiful house named the Ashby House, surrounded by the gorgeous views […]

I wanna live like common people

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

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This is the second book I’ve read by Rachel Hawkins. I loved her first book, The Villa, which centered around an Italian villa which was the site of a mysterious death in the seventies. This second book centers around heiress Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodwar Miller Kenmore. Ruby first became famous when she was just a toddler after being the victim of a famous kidnapping (think Lindbergh baby with a happier ending). She’s been married and widowed four times which only adds to her notoriety. When […]

Isolated South Sea island. What could go wrong?

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

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cbr15bingo Relation”ship” Reckless?  Hmm.  Not the adjective I’d use.  Girls without a plan.  Girls who bounce from one dire situation to another without a whole lot of forethought.  Girls who rely on their good looks to temporarily find themselves in a cushy position, but never learn how to leverage it.  Girls who live in a sketchy rich bro world and don’t mind it at all.  Girls who eventually start dying left and right.  At least the bros do as well, so there’s that. This book […]

Reckless Girls

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

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Honestly this was a 4.5 star read for me, and that’s just because one of the characters died in a stupid way that I went okay that seems ridiculous. But until that little hiccup, this was definitely a 5 star read. I just rounded up to 5 stars because everything else in the book, character development, writing, flow, setting, and the ending were fantastic. I also had to go back and re-read the prologue because you don’t find out until the end who that person […]

“Never mix vodka and witchcraft.”

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

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When I started reading this book it wasn’t very far in before I was thinking to myself “hmm… I’m not sure he’s such a bad guy, ladies” as Vivienne is (accidentally) drunkenly hexing her ex, Rhys. This could be a function of any number of things including my age, my own romantic history, the fact that I waited three months on my library’s hold list to get a copy, or the general state of the world. But it did affect my enjoyment because the thing […]



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