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A college romance with truly monumental amounts of angst

February 6, 2016 by Malin 2 Comments

Having spent the previous year pretty much focused on hockey and dating as many different women as possible, Bridger Macaulley’s life drastically changes when he realises that his dead-beat mother isn’t just doing drugs anymore, but that she’s now part of a gang that actually cooks meths at home. He takes his seven-year-old little sister Lucy out of there and hides her in his dorm room, while spending every available moment while she’s at school taking a double course load so he can graduate faster […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: angst, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, The Ivy Years, The Year We Hid Away

Malin's CBR8 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: angst, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, Mrs. Julien, New Adult, The Ivy Years, The Year We Hid Away ·
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I finally read it too

January 30, 2016 by Malin 4 Comments

4.5 stars Corey Callahan was expecting to go to prestigious Harkness College as a varsity hockey player, but instead arrives there in a wheelchair, after ending up partly paralysed from the wait down after an accident on the ice. Her cheerful new roommate doesn’t seem to mind that they have to stay in a handicap-accessible room away from all the other Harkness freshmen. If having to re-assess all her hopes and dreams about college wasn’t difficult enough, Corey also falls head over heels for the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, The Ivy Years, The Year We Fell Down

Malin's CBR8 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Malin, New Adult, Sarina Bowen, The Ivy Years, The Year We Fell Down ·
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Hot Hockey Hickies?

January 28, 2016 by Ellepkay 2 Comments

Really 3.75 stars.  (That’s right!  I’m really splitting hairs now!) I can thank Sarina Bowen for the “yes, more hockey romances please!” kick I have been on. (FYI: this is not as good as Bowen’s books, but it will have to do for now).  I know nothing about this sport, and yet I am totally willing to pick up a book by a new author if it involves hockey. I don’t know why, but it’s working for me right now. What really drew me to […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, hockey, sports

Ellepkay's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, hockey, sports ·
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Two great books and one where I could not.

January 27, 2016 by alwaysanswerb 6 Comments

The Wild Seasons series is centered around a group of lifelong friends and their post-college graduation trip to Vegas, where they end up drunkenly married to a matched group of men. The individual books dive into the aftermath of these hasty weddings and untangle the authenticity of the pairs’ feelings for each other. The books all follow the same obvious pattern: 1) Couple gets together. Couple has The Best Sex In The World. 2) Couple has blow-out argument and ambiguously break up. Female buddies get […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Christina Lauren, Contemporary Romance, Wild Seasons

alwaysanswerb's CBR8 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Christina Lauren, Contemporary Romance, Wild Seasons ·
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So much potential – so little pay off

January 25, 2016 by Ellepkay 5 Comments

Warning: this is a terribly disjointed review about a terrible book. It had potential, but it was all shot to hell. My review is barely coherent and it’s taken me over a week to write it because I can’t articulate properly what sucked so bad about this one. My review is full of questions. Questions I cannot make sense of. God, I hated this book. Jessica is helping launch a new makeup line and needs someone to pose as her boyfriend for a week of […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, harlequin

Ellepkay's CBR8 Review No:7 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, harlequin ·
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A contemporary romance set in London. Yay Britishism!

January 21, 2016 by Malin 7 Comments

Rising star and current darling of London’s West End, Elaine “Lainie” Graham has to pretend to be passionately in love with and kiss her ex-boyfriend Will Farmer every evening and sometimes for matinee performances. While none of her family really liked him, she was still shocked and upset when she discovered he was cheating on her – by seeing it splashed on the front page of the tabloid news media. Now she’s pretty much sworn off men for a while and is none too amused […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Act Like It, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Lucy Parker, Malin, Theatre

Malin's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Act Like It, CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Lucy Parker, Malin, Theatre ·
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