Welcome to the August check in for the Cannonball Read 18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge. It is hot where I am. I know John Green gives air conditioning only three stars in The Anthropocene Reviewed, but I was without for 6 hours today and I can assure you that it is not optional during a Texas heat … [Read more]
At First Spite by Olivia Dade
Second Chance Romance by Olivia Dade
I really like (most of) Olivia Dade's Spoiler Alert series, so I decided to give her other work a try. I ended up DNFing At First Spite, but did finish Second Chance Romance even if I was a bit unenthusiastic about it. At First Spite Even from the beginning, I didn't love this one. The premise … [Read more]
The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) by Tiffany Hunt
CBR18 Bingo: One - This is the first book in the Guides to Villainy and Love series. Dark Lord Kazimir kidnaps Lady Arabella to be his bride for the power her heroic bloodline will bring him, and is therefore rather confused when she turns out to be a furious woman with demands of her own for … [Read more]
Pursuit by Thomas Perry
Bingo: Left. Main antagonist leaves home to start his “life of adventure” as he puts it, a life of crime Thomas Perry’s Pursuit is not really a mystery and not quite a thriller. Two men—one a killer for hire, the other not much different but with a little less sociopathy—chase each other around … [Read more]
The Regicide Report by Charles Stross
I did it, I finally got to the last mainstream Laundry Files Book! Spoilers for previous books abound. It the interim between The Labyrinth Index and The Regicide Report, Stross wrote a few books in a branch off series about the New Management—which is a nickname given to The Mandate’s government … [Read more]
The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left injured on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally scarred from grapeshot, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed … [Read more]
The Resurrectionist: A Novel by A. Rae Dunlap
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. (Side effect of this being that his father apparently drops dead of the horror, a fact that his family will never let him … [Read more]
