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:

In the best way, this was not at all what I was expecting.

Book Club Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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I was expecting to enjoy Jenny Holiday’s Book Club Boyfriend. She has a talent for blending charming characters and easy breezy writing with some deeply emotional topics. In Book Club Boyfriend, she reshapes her typically good writing and pushes the boundaries of genre romance to give us her best book to date. I’ve read a bunch of fantastic books recently, and this one grabbed me and shook me. Blair (most likely inspired by Reese Witherspoon, but this is not veiled real person fanfic) and Jack […]

CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge Begins

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Welcome to the 2026 Book Bingo Reading Challenge! Now is the time to dig through those books you read but didn’t review, or pick up that book you’ve been thinking about. Bingo is about vibes and creative interpretations. Most importantly, it’s about fun. The words (or numbers) in the circles are meant to be inspiration. They can be a word in the title, an image on the cover, or spark an idea. I’ve listed some possibilities below, but if I’ve learned anything from Bingo, it’s […]

Pining, Second Chances, Plots, and Strategies

Just for the Season by Rachel Griffiths

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tl:dr: I am bumbling around trying not to tell you everything about Just for the Season. It works on many levels. I enjoyed Rachel Griffith’s first book, The Trouble with Anna, but I immediately knew that Charlotte and Wolfgang were going to be the couple I wanted to know more about. Charlotte romps her way through Trouble, while Wolfgang has a rather short, but memorable, cameo. Still, I’ve been reading romance long enough to know when characters are meant for each other. A few years […]

Cons, Shenanigans, and Poetic Yearning

Scandal of the Summer by Alexandra Vasti

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One of Alexandra Vasti’s frequent archetypes is the very smart woman who doesn’t fit into society. As a woman who frequently looks back in confusion at social interactions gone wrong, I love it. After Miss Ruby Ballimore commits the sin of telling a man he’s wrong in front of other people, she and two friends decide to leave London and hide out at Princess Serafina Di Sangro’s estate in Cornwall. Pomeroy House is already a haven and smuggling headquarters for Captain Malcolm Archer and his […]

Magic, Heists, Revenge

The Feywild Job by C. L. Polk

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I always find reading therapeutic, even if it’s just an escape into a story. Sometimes I read the perfect book at the perfect time. I’ve been going through a friend break-up and I picked up The Feywild Job at just the right moment for its magic to work on me. Saeldian and Kell have to come to terms with the way their partnership ended ten years earlier in order to survive the job they’ve been tricked into. The Feywild Job opens with Saeldian as a […]

I did not come all this way to live a smaller life

Prince of Storms by Kit Rocha

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This is a hard review to write because I had such a fractured reading experience. I was never able to get into a rhythm with reading, and whatever narrative tension exists was undercut by constantly having to fight with the digital copy to get back to where I left off. NetGalley Shelf digital copies are pretty but not user friendly. I’m always going to be in favor of reading Kit Rocha. I love their brains (plural, Kit Rocha is a writing duo). Aside from the […]



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