Cannonball Read 18

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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 Gory Zombie Apocalypse Road Trip Romance

Doomsdate by Laura Piper Lee

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I loved Laura Piper Lee’s Pot Shot. I highly encourage you to read it. It’s still on my list for top five reads of 2026. My feelings about Doomsdate are more mixed, but if you are looking for a good mix of horror and romance, it does what it says on the tin. Maisie was raised isolated by her mother, an end of the world prepper whose schizophrenia caused her to live in extreme paranoia. Maisie has spent many years unlearning the fears her mother […]

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

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno Garcia

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Ulises Linares (not his real name) is a conman who engages in lonely hearts and romance cons. At almost 30, and after the death of his father, he’s feeling a pressure to pull a con that will give him some stability. He decides to pursue Perla Inclan, a woman whose family once owned a reasonably successful coffee company in Puerco Ahogado (which means “drowned pig”), in the mountains of Veracruz. But Perla is no easy mark. And her niece, Inés, clocks him pretty quickly. The […]

A Summerween Romance

I Haunt it That Way by Isabelle Popp

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I’ve really struggled with how to review I Haunt it That Way because I enjoyed it so much but it is a weird book. A weird book I loved, but difficult to describe. I Haunt it That Way is a ghost story and a romance. Like Popp’s debut, Let’s Give ’em Pumpkin to Talk About (which I also loved), it’s about shifting how we see. It’s about grief, not only for someone we lost but for versions of ourself that we couldn’t be earlier. In Haunt, […]

CBR18 Book Review Bingo August Check In

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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 wave. I hope you are all finding the perfect spots for reading. The card, square descriptions, and rules can be found here. Make sure I have the correct numbers […]

I love Noods

Instant Noodles & Beyond by Robin Ha

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Robin Ha’s Cook Korean! is one of my favorite cookbooks, so I leapt at an opportunity to read an advance copy of Instant Noodles & Beyond. As I expected, Instant Noodles & Beyond is friendly, creative, and useful. My one single issue with it, and this may be an arc issue and not a problem in the final product, there is no table of contents. My plan to address this issue if it exists in my physical copy is sticky tabs. I will be getting […]

I, a lactose intolerant person, love this book so much I made a cheese board for it

World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon by Olivia Dade

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The thing that struck me pretty early in World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon, was that there was no internal barrier to a relationship between Gwen and Hugh, it was all external. Hugh and Gwen met once just before the most humiliating moment of Gwen’s life. But as soon as Gwen walks back into Hugh’s life 20 years later, it’s very clear that he’s all in. There will be no third act break up, he will make any and all adjustments to keep Gwen in […]



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