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Featured Reviews

katie71483's CBR18 Review #6:

Not what I expected; Exactly what I expected
Night's Fall by Kristen Ashley

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ElCicco's CBR18 Review #46:

“…looking back at those pages, I shivered to see our plunge into darkness, day by day, without realizing it was a spiral, and its nadir, the abyss.”
The Year of the Wind: A Novel by Karina Pacheco Medrano

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Cover of the Sleeping Sisters by Jennifer Givhan. It shows a surrealist portrait of a woman with flowers against a landscape in place of an upper face

vega-table's CBR18 Review #41:

Everyone but the chihuahua is a suspect
The Sleeping Sisters by Jennifer Givhan

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Emmalita's CBR18 Review #44:

Silvia Moreno-Garcia does noir as well as you think she would – brilliantly
The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno Garcia

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What is Cannonball Read?

Cannonball Read (CBR) is an annual, memorial reading challenge that challenges participants to read and review 52 (or 26 or 13) books in a calendar year. We donate profits to the American Cancer Society in memory of AlabamaPink, our fierce warrior queen, in the fight against cancer. Read More »

CBR18 Book Review Bingo September Check In

September 18, 2026 by Emmalita 6 Comments

The card, square descriptions, and rules can be found here. Make sure I have the correct numbers for reviews! This should be current as of 12:00 pm eastern on Friday, September 18. The Players: auntadadoom - 3 reviews beereadsbooks - 13 reviews, 3 bingos BlackRaven – 25 reviews, card … [Read more]

Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: cbr18bingo ·
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CBR Diversion – Bingo – “Wheels”

September 1, 2026 by jomidi 12 Comments

Hope you are enjoying this year's Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can get complete information here. I am back with assistance for finding books to meet the bingo circle "Wheels". Wheels - leaving; traveling; transportation; immigration; vacation; assistive mobility devices; … [Read more]

Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: #cbrbingo, #CBRDiversions, CBR Diversions, CBRDiversion ·
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The Inheritance

This is propaganda to allow dogs to eat roadkill. And one of my comfort reads.

The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

September 20, 2026 by Emmalita 2 Comments

I don’t know what kind of addictive substances Ilona Andrews puts in their writing, but please don’t send me to rehab. I am sometimes surprised by which books become comfort reads. I have several, including a couple from Ilona Andrews. The Inheritance is one of the books that took me by surprise. I … [Read more]

Emmalita's CBR18 Review No:58 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: ilona andrews ·
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Very much NOT a romantasy

Monster, Monarch, Maiden by Rae Carson

September 19, 2026 by Malin Leave a Comment

This was an ARC; thank you to NetGalley, Harper Audio and Greenwillow Books. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Bria Angarsold is an innkeeper's daughter (she mentions this at seven different points in the story, in case you were likely to forget) who was kidnapped by raiders, … [Read more]

Malin's CBR18 Review No:53 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: adventure, ARC, audiobook, cbr18, historical fantasy, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, Monster Monarch Maiden, NetGalley, quest, rae carson, romantic, shapeshifters, Young Adult ·
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The future is bleak and cold

Far North by Marcel Theroux

September 19, 2026 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR18 BINGO: Wheels, because Makepeace's family (and others) moved to the Far North to survive Far North takes place in a dystopian future that is usually depicted as arid wasteland. In this case, the wasteland is the frozen tundra, which is represented rather beautifully on the book cover. A … [Read more]

KimMiE"'s CBR18 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18, cbr18bingo, dystopian fiction, KimMiE", Marcel Theroux ·
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Oxford Drama

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

September 19, 2026 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

It's been seventeen years since Kathryn Stockett put out her debut novel The Help. Her second, The Calamity Club, is also set in Stockett's native Mississippi, albeit about thirty years earlier, in 1933. The story follows two protagonists. The fist is Birdie Calhoun, a 24-year-old single woman … [Read more]

jeverett15's CBR18 Review No:69 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Kathryn Stockett ·
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And Holy Be The Terror

Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen

September 19, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Holy Terrors is the final book in the Little Thieves trilogy and it picks up well over a year after Vanja dismantled (sort of) the cult she managed to accidentally create after a drunken night out. And this being Vanja, she’s still completely unable to keep herself out of trouble. There ’s not a lot … [Read more]

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr18bingo, fairy tale adaptation, hugo award nominee, lodestar award, Margaret Owen, Steal, trousers of time ·
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Not for me

For the Wolf: The Wilderwood Book 1 by Hannah Whitten

September 19, 2026 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr18bingo Middle because I quit in the middle of this one I picked this one up thinking it would be right up my alley. It’s a fantasy novel centered around the Little Red Riding Hood/Big Bad Wolf story, with dark magical woods and so on. Well over 100 pages in, I realized it was not for me for a … [Read more]

ElCicco's CBR18 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr18, cbr18bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, For the Wolf, Hannah Whitten, The Wilderwood Book 1 ·
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  • Emmalita
    on This is propaganda to allow dogs to eat roadkill. And one of my comfort reads.
    He snuck by me on occasion and I regretted it every time. He learned nothing.
  • LittlePlat
    on This is propaganda to allow dogs to eat roadkill. And one of my comfort reads.
    Ilona Andrews is probably one of the few urban fantasy/sci-fi mash up authors that I have not really taken the...
  • Emmalita
    on CBR18 Book Review Bingo September Check In
    Thanks! I have updated your count. It was actually two early reviews that had gotten erased from my tracker last...
  • carmelpie
    on CBR18 Book Review Bingo September Check In
    Hi! I should have 13 as of 12 noon EST on Sept 18th. I had double reviews (2 books per...
  • Malin
    on CBR Diversion – Bingo – “Wheels”
    My choice for this square is Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia. Other books I can recommend that fit into this...
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