Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Even better than the first

Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older

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I don’t usually go 4 years between reading a book and its sequel. Sometimes I’ll try and keep up as the books come out and more often, I’ll just wait until they all come out so I don’t forget what happened previously while waiting for the new book. However, this was available through my library right away while I was looking for something to read so I decided to give it a go, hoping the story would come back to me. I’m so glad I […]

A Whole lot of lying

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Flawless by Sara Shepard

Perfect by Sara Shepard

Unbelievable by Sara Shepard

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I’ve never seen this television show. My daughter got these books from a friend but hasn’t gotten around to reading them so I swiped them from her bookshelf. The first book in the series is Pretty Little Liars. It introduces the characters and plot of the following books. The story takes place in the Northwest Philadelphia suburbs and follows four high school juniors as they navigate the new school year, teenage drama, and the mysterious notes and text messages that are being sent to them from […]

DNF at 25 Percent- A Map of Days is Mind-Numbing

A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

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Sigh. I just DNFed this at 25 percent. I wasn’t enjoying the children in this one and following Jacob as he is crowned “The One” through a fourth book didn’t sound like a good time to me. I think that the last book ended perfectly and had the right message that life isn’t fair. I thought it had a good logic behind Jacob following in his grandfather’s steps with him not being able to say with the people he loved. I thought it was up […]

Sweet Nightingale

Nightingale by Amy Lukavics

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Please note that I received this book for free via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. June Hardie is struggling to fit in. Too bad that her family starts to push for her to be more like other women in the time (1951) and the story weaves back and forth to a time before June was sent to an asylum to what takes place when she gets there. I rooted for June, but thought most of the story was kind of a […]

Goblins, Elves and Diplomacy

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by MT Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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How to describe The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge? According to writer MT Anderson it’s “…a tragic meditation on how societies that have been trained to hate each other for generations can actually come to see eye to eye.” But is it?  According to illustrator Eugene Yelchin, “A crazy story about two fools blinded by propaganda is not a tragedy. It’s a comedy.” Who’s correct? Well, both are. This National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature is a story of political intrigue and espionage, and […]

Jane sees dead people

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows

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I completely ADORED My Lady Jane a few years ago. It was so refreshing and funny and unique, with such a great audio narrator. I had high hopes for this next book in the series and HALLELUJAH it delivered. It’s not quite as shockingly quirky as My Lady Jane (nobody’s fiance regularly turns into a horse for one), but what it lacked in quirk, it made up in literary references and jokes. Most of the Bronte family gets roped into the narrative here and it’s […]



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