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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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Liris wasn’t going to allow herself to be sacrificed without her input this time.

The Sundered Realms by Casey Blair

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I really enjoyed The Sundered Realms and I’m very much looking forward to the rest of the series. I also think that the core element of this that I loved is going to throw some readers off. At it’s heart, The Sundered Realms is about self determination, and there is a lot of conversation and thinking about what the freedom to choose looks like. As in The Sorceress Transcendent, Casey Blair is Throws two people into a world altering adventure and then spends a great deal of […]

There is a universal truth: we all panic when the toilet overflows.

Safe and Sound, a renter-friendly guide to home repair by Mercury Stardust

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This is a Mercury Stardust, the Trans Handy Ma’am, fan account. With her bright blue hair, great big laugh, and down to earth tips, she has helped me work through a number of home repairs. I know how to use a toilet plunger now! I’m pretty sure any scene of my dad teaching me how to do a home repair looked a lot like Moira teaching David how to fold in the cheese, but with a lot more crying (me)and throwing things (my dad, who […]

A queer retelling of Pretty Woman

Boyfriend Subscription by Steven Salvatore

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Steven Salvatore described his adult romance debut, Boyfriend Subscription, as a queer retelling of Pretty Woman. I love a queer retelling, but Pretty Woman was never one of my favorite movies. I never believed that Richard Gere’s character was going to value Julia Robert’s character beyond the end of the movie. Once the glow of the new relationship wore off, I was pretty sure he was going to hold having been a sex worker against her. Salvatore takes care of that issue by making Cole, the […]

Lightning Strike

What is Love by Jen Comfort

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Jen Comfort became an autobuy author for me when I read Midnight Duet, her utterly bananas and brilliant gender-flipped retelling of The Phantom of the Opera. Her banter is top notch. Her characters are substantial. Teddy Ferguson falls in love with Maxine Hart after she steals his lucky donut, takes one bite, corrects his trivia factoid, and then throws the rest of the donut away like a beautiful agent of chaos. I also fell in love with Maxine at that moment. There is, I think, […]

Never in her thirty-five years of being Black did Helen Beck expect to be in the middle of a forest with Enya playing on battery powered speakers.

I’ll Come Back for You by Charish Reid

I’ll Conjure for You by Charish Reid

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With The Beck Sister Hauntings series, Charish Reid has entered a new phase, and I love it. I’ll Come Back for You and I’ll Conjure for You are creepy, atmospheric, funny, heartfelt, and spicy. Horror isn’t my preferred genre, but I’ll follow an author I trust out of my comfort zone. Mix in romance and it’s expectation of a Happily Ever After, and I’m willing to test my anxiety tolerance. Whitney and Helen Beck have inherited their late grandmother’s bed and breakfast in upstate New York. […]

“My name’s Willa, and I believe I have your dog.”

Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley

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Do Me a Favor begins as all great books do, with a dog. Okay, that’s probably not true of all great books, but this one does begin with Willa finding a dog in her garage during a thunderstorm. The dog, named Noodle, belongs to Hudson’s semi-adult son. Hudson comes to get him (a couple of times because Noodle loves a garage adventure) and Hudson and Willa start to connect. I really enjoyed Cathy Yardley’s Ponto Beach series, but I am loving her books with older […]



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