Cannonball Read 17

Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Be warned readers, this is pretty bloody/gory. A couple of scenes did turn my stomach a bit, but I kept plugging through. I won’t lie, readers are not going to like the main character, Poppy Stringer at all. At least at fast. She starts to grow on you, or at least she grew on me the mo...

Like a lot of other elder millennials, I got very into birdwatching during the pandemic lockdowns, but I’ve always been interested in birds. I remember the first time I saw a bird and wanted to know more–a scarlet tanager at a nature center when I was a kid. In a time before cell phones, I couldn’t just look up what I’d seen. I had to describe it and my p...

All that heiress Katherine de Montrain wants is to stay in control of her estates and assist her cousin, who masquerades as the notorious Robin Hood. Though she is forced for wed Lord Damian Montjoy for her own protection, she vows she will never submit to him. This is a pretty entertaining historical romance which was originally published in the 1990s. This is a bit of a weird ...

It’s interesting that this is one of the Amber books that’s stayed in my mind the most, but that I don’t actually remember very well. I’m mostly confident of this because I remember… none of it. In my recollection of reading these stories as a teenager, I can at least remember that there’s a final battle between the Amberites and the forces of...

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger warning: Some body horror throughout. Wow. So Carrion Crow was a gut punch. Parry is partly inspired by the true story of Blanche Monnier and writes a fictional story following the Périgord family. I just felt pity for the character of Marguerite and absolutely loathed the chara...