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When you amass a trove of flavorful bits and pieces, dinner cooks itself

Piecemeal by Kathryn Pauline

June 14, 2023 by Emmalita 1 Comment

I think Piecemeal is going to be a useful cookbook that will encourage adaptation and experimentation. Kathryn Pauline gives a recipe for a component and then provides three recipes in increasing degrees of complexity that utilize that component. The components range from “leafy herbs” to “turkey spinach meatballs,” to “Mulled wine pears.” The sections are Vegetables, Meats, Dressings and Sauces, and Fruits, compotes, and curds. After the table of contents, Pauline has helpfully broken the recipes down by type so that if you are looking […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: advance reader copy, Kathryn Pauline, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:52 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: advance reader copy, Kathryn Pauline, NetGalley ·
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“It is a nice thought, is it not?” Beatrice asked. “That we can go forward as romantic lunatics forevermore?”

Romance Me, Viscount by Kate Archer

June 9, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Fanciful Beatrice Bennington insists she will accept only a lovesick man as her husband, but her neighbor Matthew, a viscount, is convinced that all she will end up with is a bruised heart – unless he can prevent it. Kate Archer has kicked off a new series of Regency romcoms about the Benningtons, a close knit family with an hopelessly romantic bend, due to the parenting of an eccentric aunt. I’ve always enjoyed Kate Archer’s romances, which generally lean very heavily into comedy, so I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, comedy, England, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, comedy, England, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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You don’t have to be what they want you to be.

Translation State by Ann Leckie

May 30, 2023 by Emmalita 2 Comments

I always make the same mistake with Ann Leckie. I think it’s going to be serious, intellectual science fiction, and it always ends up being a story I can’t put down. When I get to the review writing part, all I seem to be able to write about are the serious intellectual themes, so let me take this time to say that I had a hard time putting this down to do things like earn money and sleep. Early in the book, Reet Hluid’s mother […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: advance reader copy, ann leckie, imperial radch, NetGalley, Translation State

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:46 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, ann leckie, imperial radch, NetGalley, Translation State ·
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She’d worked so hard to deserve the goodness of her life now, but accepting it was something else entirely.

Single Dads Club by Therese Beharrie

May 24, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Therese Beharrie’s Single Dads Club is a messy (in a good way) slow burn romance with two people trying to build new lives for themselves and be better than their parents, while prioritizing Rowan’s new born son. Delilah and Rowan have each ended up in Sugarbush Bay after significant upheaval in their personal lives. A few years earlier, Delilah’s mother was convicted of bilking her middle class clients out of their life savings. Delilah fled to her older brother in Sugarbush Bay and has been […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Black romance, NetGalley, Single Dads Club, south africa, Therese Beharrie

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:45 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Black romance, NetGalley, Single Dads Club, south africa, Therese Beharrie ·
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Yell if I can help dig some graves once you’re finished.

The Sorceress Transcendent by Casey Blair

May 18, 2023 by Emmalita 1 Comment

I love well done enemies to lovers romance. Bonus points if it’s scifi or fantasy. The Sorceress Transcendent is fantasy. It’s a quick read, with a nice blend of action and domestic comfort. Varius and Theira have fought on opposite sides of an ever lasting war for years. Varius was a general and Theira a sorceress, second only in power to the autocratic Sorcerer Ascendant. They have studied each other on the battlefield, almost flirting through tactics. Now, pushed too far by the empire he […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Casey Blair, enemies to lovers, fantasy romance, NetGalley, novella, The Sorceress Transcendent

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Casey Blair, enemies to lovers, fantasy romance, NetGalley, novella, The Sorceress Transcendent ·
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I’m living Athena’s life. I’m experiencing publishing the way it’s supposed to work.

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

May 14, 2023 by Emmalita 6 Comments

I know what you’re thinking. Thief. Plagiarizer. And perhaps, because all bad things must be racially motivated, Racist. Hear me out. It’s not so awful as it sounds. Readers, it is exactly as bad as it sounds. Juniper Song Hayward is bad person, but don’t worry, she has forgiven herself. Yellowface is told to the reader by June. We are her confessor. She tells us all of her resentments, fears, manipulations, and triumphs. Most of all, she tells us her rationalizations. Athena Liu and June […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: advance reader copy, NetGalley, publishing, R.F. Kuang, racism in publishing, Yellowface

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, NetGalley, publishing, R.F. Kuang, racism in publishing, Yellowface ·
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