Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Emmalita

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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:

Oh Bluebird, I Wish You had Sung for Me

Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

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I wish I could articulate why Bluebird didn’t quite work for me. I really wanted to like it, and it has a lot of elements I did enjoy. As a whole, though, it took me a long time to get through the book and left me feeling frustrated. The blurb is great. Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space! Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving, rebel with a cause, doesn’t give a damn about them and she hasn’t looked back […]

Soft Queer Love – Ethical Non-Monogamy Edition

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen

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Twitter may be a hellsite most of the time, but it brought me to so many great writers I wouldn’t have found otherwise. I don’t know how else I would have found Skye Kilaen, an absolutely delightful queer self published author who should be more widely read. Shake Things Up is the second in her Love at Knockdown series and I feel like I’ve been eagerly anticipating it forever, but probably only about a year, what is time? We meet Noelle just after she’s been […]

I’m not mad, I’m disappointed

The Modern Proper by Holly Erickson, Natalie Mortimer

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Visually, Holly Erickson and Natalie Mortimer’s The Modern Proper is stunning. If what you really like about cookbooks is looking at the pretty pictures, get this cookbook. That’s a valid reason to buy a cookbook. If, however, you want a cookbook that helps you put delicious dinners on the table on a weeknight, this one is a maybe. But first, full disclosure. The publisher sent me three chapters out of eight, so I can’t give an opinion of the whole book, only on Meatless, Pork and […]

Bingeworthy

Idol by Kristen Callihan

Fall by Kristen Callihan

Exposed by Kristen Callihan

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I felt a little bruised and battered by some of the books I’ve read recently. I have a bunch of books I’m really excited to read, and a bunch of books that are my happy place, but none of them were working for me. I saw several people raving about Scottie in Kristen Callihan’s Managed. What I remember about Scottie is that I loathed him. I thought it might be worth revisiting him, but obviously I would have to reread Idol first, because I couldn’t […]

Travel Back to 2004

Never Tell by Selena Montgomery

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One of the moments I enjoyed a lot last year was when I asked a group of people if they knew Stacey Abrams wrote romance novels. They did not. I blew their minds. When I had an opportunity to read an arc of the rerelease of Never Tell, I jumped at it. The book was originally published in 2004. At this point in my life, I’m not really looking for romantic suspense stories. I also don’t read true crime stories involving murder. It’s not a […]

There is no shelter for me without you, no sky that could content me.

Renegade Love by Ann Aguirre

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I subscribe to Ann Aguirre’s newsletter, so I’ve been getting a few chapters at a time of Renegade Love, the third in her Galactic Love series that started with Strange Love. When I got the final chapters, I realized I had read but not retained about half the book, so I needed to go back and reread the whole thing. Darn. The emotional arc between Yara and Oren is expressly stated in the first chapter. I have a soft spot for redeeming bad guys. I […]



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