Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Loves reading books, writing about books and talking about books. On the CBR Board. May send you an email. Thinking about new challenges. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Emmalita's Quick Questions interview.)

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Fake Flame revisited with my ears

Fake Flame by Adele Buck

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I read and reviewed Adele Buck’s Fake Flame in April, 2024. When I saw an advance listener copy narrated by Moniqua Plante available on NetGalley I smashed the request button. I love being able to revisit books as audiobooks because I will notice different things, and plot points will hit differently in different formats. Moniqua Plante’s narration is warm and friendly, perfect for this lowish stakes, thoroughly adult romance. My favorite thing about Fake Flame, in any format, is that it’s romance for grownups. Eva […]

Not a recommendation

His Vengeful Tradwife by Katie Landry

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Very late at night, I got peer pressured into reading His Vengeful Tradwife by Katie Landry. It was weird and I was very “what did I just read?” LB did me a great kindness and picked up His Vengeful Tradwife and sent me their reactions as they read. It really helped me process how I felt about this book. Things started well, though LB noted that this book is aggressively white and heteronormative. Maverick is an idiot and Tallulah is clearly smarter and more competent. […]

I like the way you look at me

Snailed It! by Sarah T. Dubbs

Perfect Match by Eliza McClane

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He was like a cartoon with spirals for eyes in the limo, the tip of his tongue curled up to graze his teeth as he watched me. Sarah T. Dubbs and Eliza McLane are the same person. I highly recommend books written under both names. The Eliza McLane novellas are high heat and centered around holidays. The Valentine’s Day novella, Perfect Match, is my favorite of the three. Snailed It is a companion to Birding With Benefits (which I haven’t reviewed, but really enjoyed), and […]

Margo, you couldn’t be good if your life depended upon it. You are a walking hurricane.

The Halifax Hellions by Alexandra Vasti

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A few years ago I started hearing about some fantastic self published historical romance novellas by a new author, Alexandra Vasti, In Which Margo Halifax Earns her Shocking Reputation and In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint. Naturally, I acquired them, plus a third one, In Which Winnie Halifax is Utterly Ruined. I bought them, but because of brain things, I never read them. The first two have been collected in one volume, The Halifax Hellions, which is being released next week. I’m […]

Wherever I had ended up, this world wasn’t limited by the pages of the books I knew.

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is a chonk. And just like when people called my former dog a chonk, a land seal, a door stop, I think every word is precious. The audiobook is 21 hours and 34 minutes, and I’ve listened to it twice in a week. Kristen Sieh is a fantastic narrator. I’m probably going to listen a few more times before the book comes out March 31. We meet Maggie on her third day in Kair Toren, the capital city of […]

He’s not supposed to still be funny after we’ve broken up.

Still into You by Erin Connor

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I enjoyed Erin Connor’s Still Into You so much, like so, so much. The primary narrator Karissa Vacker, was great. The interstitials were narrated by William DeMerritt, Donald Chang, James Fouhey, Robb Moreira, and Greg Chun voicing each of the members of the band, Final Revelations. Still Into You is a second chance romance between two people who so clearly want to be together. Sloan, is a music journalist given the opportunity to interview a band that famously doesn’t give interviews. She had an intense […]



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