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.)

Emmalita's Reviews:

A Very Enby Christmas

Sugar & Spice by Eli Wray

The First Noel by Eli Wray

Secret Santa by Eli Wray

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A few weeks ago I started hearing positive reviews of a soft and low angst holiday series written by a non-binary author centering trans and non-binary characters. Eli Wray’s A Very Enby Christmas series came highly recommended and lived up to every positive word said about it. All three installments are packed with kindness. Sugar & Spice was kind of like “The Gift of the Magi”, except instead of sacrificing what they most hold dear to get the perfect material gift for the other, Mason […]

“Your hand is unconscionably soft, Miss Eversea”

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

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In the comments of my review of two contemporary age gap romances, Daddy Crush and Your Dad Will Do, Mrs. Julien reminded me of What I Did for a Duke. I first reviewed this back in 2015 and looking back at my review all I really see is how much I valued (and continue to value) Malin and Mrs. Julien. This book is a tour de force and I don’t think I appreciated that the first time I read it. I haven’t reread any of […]

Not as good as I hoped

To Drink and to Eat, Volume 2 by Guillaume Long

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When I request a book from NetGalley, I have high hopes that I will enjoy it. I have loved graphic novels that are cookbooks or food centric memoirs. I think communicating about food lends itself to illustration. Cartoonist Guillaume Long writes a culinary comic for Le Monde, “To Drink and To Eat.” While I wasn’t familiar with him, he is apparently well loved. Unfortunately, Long got on the wrong foot with me by writing a jokey little story with recipe about Paul Gauguin moving to […]

Try for me, Eve. That’s all. Just try.

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

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 Eve is the youngest and flightiest of the Brown sisters. She didn’t really make much of an impression on me in her sisters’ books other than she was present when they needed her. That’s a really good characteristic, being there when needed. At the beginning of Act Your Age, Eve Brown, Eve is updating her journal explaining why she has shuttered her wedding planning business after one successful (except for one disaster) wedding. She is determined to put the incident behind her and move on to […]

Cannonball After Dark, Daddy Edition

Daddy Crush by Adriana Anders

Your Dad Will Do by Katee Robert

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Did I think there would come a time when I was reviewing two Daddy romances? No, I sure did not. But here we are, and I have to say right up top that these are both good books and I enjoyed reading them. Both books came so highly recommended and were too affordable to resist. In Adriana Anders’ Daddy Crush, a young woman is pining for her older neighbor. Jerusha grew up in the Shenandoah to a very conservative religious family. She never fit in, but […]

“Lightning-struck until your heart’s split open, but you never stop reaching for something more.

Just Like This by Cole McCade

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Cole McCade writes beautifully. It felt at times, while I was reading Just Like This, that McCade was getting the ink for his story right out of my well of feelings. I am allergic to my own feelings and would much rather experience them by proxy through fictional characters. McCade doesn’t let me do that. Just Like This is the second book in the Albin Academy series. Albin Academy is a boarding school mostly for boys rich families find troublesome. The teachers and staff also live […]



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