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Yay for finishing my Bingo card! But mehhhh to this book.

Stranded by Sarah Goodwin

October 30, 2021 by Ellesfena 4 Comments

CBR Bingo: Shelfie (Purchased the e-book–it’s cheap!) Yay! I can’t believe I finished my Bingo card, this is my first time ever doing that! I wish I would have finished on a stronger book, though. Stranded is the story of Maddy, a woman who has been cast on a Survivor-esque reality show where eight people are left on an island for a year to try and survive and build a community. After a couple months of uneasy cooperation, things start to go wrong. If you’ve read Lord […]

Further Down The River

Wicked River by Jenny Milchman

October 2, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Outdoors. Almost the entirety of the book takes place outdoors. The good thing about Book Bingos and other reading challenges is that they encourage you to read stuff you wouldn’t otherwise read. Take Wicked River. I won this book in a library bingo contest. I wouldn’t have read it otherwise…but I hate letting go of free books. It likely would have sat on my shelf for at least a year, maybe longer, had “Outdoors” not been an option in the Cannonball Read Bingo books. […]

Save your time, avoid this book.

Saving Grace by Debbie Babitt

September 29, 2021 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

I’m not going to bury the lede, I deeply dislike this book. There is not one likable character, nor one that exhibits more than one dimension of personality. The story alternates between frustrating and non-sensical and the finale twists are eye-rolling. This is a bad, Z-grade attempt to emulate Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Paula Hawkins without understanding what makes those three so good. Mary Grace Dobbs is the newly sworn-in sheriff of her hometown of Redemption, Arkansas in 2019. She got the job after […]

The Rich Eat You

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

September 23, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Home. The book takes place in an apartment complex where the protagonist is house sitting. Riley Sager’s thing never seemed to be my thing. I tried Final Girls but quit after thirty pages because it gave me that airport bestseller page-ripper vibe. Nothing against those kinds of books but they’re not for me. I don’t fancy myself (hah!) as a high brow sophisticate when it comes to my reading tastes. But I usually enjoy stuff with more substance than what you get […]

What does the dark dark wood got to do with it?

In A Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

August 31, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

It’s one of those books where the “mysterious events of the past” are mysterious only because the narrator isn’t telling you about it. Leonora, 26 years old is a crime author and lives a solitary and lonely life. Then, she receives an email from a woman she does not know, inviting her to a “hen party” for a friend she has not spoken to for a long time. But she goes. This hen party is for the wedding of Leonora’s childhood friend Clare. A wedding […]

Caution: Baby does more than Bite.

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

August 27, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage book is a highly recommended book. It is on lists of great thrillers. Banned books to read. And even for book groups. However, I am not totally a hundred percent sure why. I learned after starting it, several people had a variety of “not liking” comments. One person could not finish it. Others felt that while it was worth the read, but felt a few other titles were stronger. This mixed batch of love and eh was what I felt. […]

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