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.)

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Eastside Pride

Thirsty by Mia Hopkins

Trashed by Mia Hopkins

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I have had Mia Hopkins’ Thirsty and Trashed on my Kindle for a long time. Now that the third book in the series, Tanked, is coming out this month, I have finally read them. These books are fantastic and if you haven’t you should read them now. Thirsty starts with Salvador “Ghost” Rojas standing on the street in his underwear. After serving a 5 year sentence for auto theft and car jacking, he’s couch surfing with a friend, but his friend has gotten them kicked […]

Little Red Box of Love and Murder

Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders

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Last year I read two of Charlie Jane Anders books, Victories Greater than Death and Never Say You Can’t Survive. Both were excellent and I recommend you read them. Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak is the sequel to Victories, so you really need to read that one first. Dreams is also closely related to Never Say You Can’t Survive, Anders’ book about writing. In Victories, Anders plays with the Chosen One trope. Tina is a clone of a great warrior and she was created to allow […]

We have become a place of long weeping

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

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Black Sun is one of those books that for some reason I don’t read because I know I will really like it. And then I finally read it and I’m mad at myself both for not reading it sooner and also for having read it at all because now I’ll never read it again for the first time. My brain is a weird place. I have an arc of Fevered Star, which has driven me to finally breaking the glass on Black Sun. I listened […]

Good subject, physically difficult to read

Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture by Simon Orpana

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The contents of Gasoline Dreams are great. The book is physically hard to read. It took me months to get through it because the woodcut style of the text and graphics gave me headaches. I became reluctant to pick it up because who likes headaches? The cover is deceptive. It is brightly colored with the text and integrated into an interesting but easy to comprehend visual. The insides, though are all in black and white with text and images fighting for space. It was tough to […]

I’m excited to discover what the afterlife holds

Savage City by L Penelope

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At the beginning of Savage City, Talia dies. As she dies, she finds herself being pulled somewhere, where she almost dies again. Talia has been brought from one parallel universe to another. Very quickly we learn that the world Talia finds herself in is brutal. It kind of looks like San Francisco, Talia’s home, but not really. There’s a brutal war between the shape-shifting Nimali and the Fai, who have abilities, but don’t shift. Talia looks like the missing daughter of the Nimali King, Princess […]

You’ll find that when I really put my mind to something, I can get the work done.

Don’t Go Baking My Heart by N.G. Peltier

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Don’t Go Baking My Heart took me on an ride, but I ended up loving it. At one point in this grumpy sunshine romance, I was stressed out and considering abandoning the book because it was hitting on some of my particular anxieties. I decided to trust the author, kept going, and was rewarded with a sweet and kind romance. Reba has pink hair and loves wigs, glitter, rainbows and fun. Devon is focused on work, his schedule, his plans and his lists. He does […]



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