Cannonball Read 17

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:

This broke my heart, and not in the good way

The Dravenhearst Brides by Lindsay Barrett

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I haven’t had a book break my heart the way The Dravenhearst Brides did in a long time. Since Lindsay Barrett is a new to me author, I went in with few expectations, but I was immediately drawn in. The Dravenhearst Brides is a gothic romance set in Kentucky in 1933, towards the end of Prohibition and is described as a loose retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Since the book is a loose retelling of Rebecca, I wasn’t surprised that two of the characters […]

A Two Week Vacation with Everyone who Hates You at Murder House

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles

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Zeb Wykham doesn’t much care for his family, but when a cousin says he wants to get to know him, Zeb accepts an invitation to spend two weeks at Lackaday House on Dartmore. Zeb is distressed to find that his brother, sister-in-law, another cousin, a fourth older relative, and his ex are all there too. His host has lied about the purpose of the visit. Instead of a cozy getting to know you visit, Wynn Wykham has decided he will make the man who marries […]

I struggled, but it’s still a Martha Wells book

Queen Demon by Martha Wells

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When I read and reviewed Witch King in 2023, I was hoping there would be more books in Kaiisteron’s story. I got my wish, but I flailed around for a while before I was able to sink into it. First, I realized that I needed to reread Witch King. Next, I needed to recalibrate. In a lot of fantasy series, there’s a person or entity that is the ultimate antagonist. In The Rising World series, I think the antagonist is a kind of power. I […]

A Very Horny Ode to Kindness

Dealing With a Desperate Demon by Charlotte Stein

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While I was reading Charlotte Stein’s Dealing with a Desperate Demon, I had a few conversations about the way unkindness is being rewarded socially and politically and how we combat that. And then I would dive back into Desperate Demon and feel wrapped in kindness again. This book is about being kind, being soft, and because it’s a Charlotte Stein romance, being very horny. When Nancy was a child, she wrote stories and things happened. Her father hated the stories she wrote and the things […]

Returning Fairytales to Their Roots – Stories that are NOT for Kids

F*cked Up Fairy Tales by Liz Gotauco

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When Liz Gotauco (aka cosbrarian) announced last year that her F*cked Up Fairytales with Liz video series was coming to us in book form, I got very excited. When the arc showed up on NetGalley, I smashed the request button hard. When the e-arc showed up on my kindle, I started to read it very slowly, because in 2025, joy should be savored. F*cked Up Fairytales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings and Other Timeless Classics is everything I hoped it would be. F*cked Up Fairy Tales […]

As she watched, a single dark red petal broke free from the vine just above the plaque and floated, strange and slow, all the way to the ground.

Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

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After reading Charlie Jane Anders’s Lessons in Magic and Disaster last month, I particularly enjoyed reading about two women writing books and falling in love in Georgian England. In Lessons, Jamie was researching magic and queer subtext in a fictional novel written by real 18th century woman, Sarah Fielding. In Ladies in Hating, Georgiana and Catriona are each authors of gothic books under pseudonyms. It is still scandalous for a woman to be an author, especially of gothic literature, though Georgiana’s identity is somewhat of […]



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