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I love watching an author grow

Calling the Shots by Kelly Farmer

November 9, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Kelly Farmer’s Calling the Shots is a solidly entertaining and emotional contemporary sapphic romance. This is the third in her On the Ice series about professional women’s hockey players. She’s gotten stronger and more confident with each book. The characters are more comfortably layered and complex and the push/pull of Regan and Tierney relationship flows easily, even the third act break-up. Regan Lane has gone from being a professional women’s hockey megastar, to an assistant coach for a middling professional men’s hockey team. She has […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Calling the Shots, f/f romance, hockey romance, Kelly Farmer, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:122 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Calling the Shots, f/f romance, hockey romance, Kelly Farmer, NetGalley ·
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Bad decisions, good book

Brooklynaire by Sabrina Bowen

June 25, 2022 by persnickety chick 2 Comments

  This is a happy review, but a story of poor decisions.  I bought one of those compilation books from amazon – you know the 20 books for 99 cents ones, lots of authors.  I did buy it because I get promotional emails from the author of the book  I am talking about.  With these compilations there are generally a couple of cliffhanger teaser books, intended to suck you in, a couple of meh books and one or two books that are great.  Brooklynaire is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: billionaire romance, hockey romance, Romance, Sabrina Bowen, Sarina Bowen

persnickety chick's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: billionaire romance, hockey romance, Romance, Sabrina Bowen, Sarina Bowen ·
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Minor minor league hockey romance. #CBRBINGO – Sportsball

Breakaway (Scoring Chances, #1) by Avon Gale

July 6, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 3/30 This was a good time. I was really into it at the beginning, but then the tension sort of fizzled out near the middle. It had a pretty strong ending, though. I’m definitely going to check out later books in the series, because some of the summaries seem like they will be a little more angsty. This was mostly just bantery and fluffy and full of hockey stuff. I almost bumped it up to four stars, but that […]

Filed Under: Romance, Sports Tagged With: Avon Gale, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, hockey, hockey romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, Romance, sports romance, sportsball

narfna's CBR13 Review No:83 · Genres: Romance, Sports · Tags: Avon Gale, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, hockey, hockey romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, Romance, sports romance, sportsball ·
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I’m just suggesting a super casual outing where we do some low-key ogling

Common Goal (Game Changers 4) by Rachel Reid

September 5, 2020 by Emmalita 4 Comments

Common Goal was very readable, but perhaps suffered from having been read after a string of excellent books. While I read it quickly and enjoyed it while I read it, it hasn’t stayed with me. It also suffers a bit in comparison to Reid’s Heated Rivalry, a book that captured magic. Eric and Kyle’s story is much gentler, and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s a 3.5 star read. Eric is recently divorced, getting ready for the end of his hockey career and thinking […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Common Goal, Game Changers series, hockey romance, m/m romance, NetGalley, Rachel Reid

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:72 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Common Goal, Game Changers series, hockey romance, m/m romance, NetGalley, Rachel Reid ·
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A Genuinely Sweet F/F Hockey Romance

Out on the Ice by Kelly Farmer

August 20, 2020 by Emmalita 1 Comment

Kelly Farmer’s debut, Out on the Ice, is a sweet f/f romance. Hockey romance is a surprisingly large subset of m/m romance. When I saw a women’s hockey romance on NetGalley, I was delighted. I got this as an arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Amy Schwartzbach is a professional hockey player with the National Women’s Hockey League team the Boston Ice. Caro Cassidy has been retired for a few years and has opened up a hockey focused ice rink for girls, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, f/f romance, hockey romance, Kelly Farmer, NetGalley, Out on the Ice

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:67 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, f/f romance, hockey romance, Kelly Farmer, NetGalley, Out on the Ice ·
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A Book I Liked, A Book I Loved

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

April 24, 2020 by Emmalita 10 Comments

I read ctkat1’s review of Heated Rivalry last year and added it to my tbr. I kept seeing people love on it so I finally bought it and then I felt like I needed to read the first book in the series first, Game Changer. Game Changer was a nice m/m romance, but it was not as it’s title claims, a game changer. Scott Hunter is the captain of Manhattan’s pro hockey team and a deeply closeted gay man. He’s in a slump. After ordering […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: hockey romance, m/m romance, Rachel Reid

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Romance · Tags: hockey romance, m/m romance, Rachel Reid ·
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