Cannonball Read 17

cbr18 BINGO: 26 (published 2026) If Cemetery Boys was Yadriel’s story, this one is Julian’s story. We get POV chapters from both characters, but more from Julian. The book is set a month or two after the first book, and the brujx community has welcomed Julian with open arms. This makes it difficult to navigate his relationships with his “normie” brother and friends because he ha...

Maniac – 3.5 stars Decades before the modern school shooter burst onto the national stage, a man in Bath, Michigan blew up his local elementary school because he resented that his taxes had been increased to help build and maintain it. This is such a strange and shocking crime that it’s hard to understand why it’s also rather little known, but Schechter makes a compelling case f...

Bingo: Middle. Miss Marple is in the middle of the old world and the new. The story explicitly contrasts the old world side of St Mary Mead with the new housing development built in the community. Ah, such a relief to enjoy a soothing Agatha Christie. The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side is a very good Miss Marple book. Taking place in St Mary Mead, the murder capital of the wor...

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I went to see John Green speak on his tour for Hollywood, Ending last Thursday, and at one point point in his talk, he said there are two types of people as you hit fifty years old: you either turn into a tree person or a bird person. I believe that I am turning into a tree person ...

*My review title is a little bit of a fib – there is a Halloween decoration as the plot McGuffin here, but the story takes place November – February. There are a handful of authors whose mailing lists I am on. One of those is Kate Canterbary and in some of her newsletters she provides links to free eBooks from other authors. In August it was Roxie Noir’s Break the Rules. I downl...