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Down the rabbit hole

White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig

March 26, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

Per the book blurb: Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian—the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to “talk.” Things couldn’t get worse, right? After finishing Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig, I was intrigued enough to check out his previous books.  This is another YA book, but the tone […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Caleb Roehrig, LGBTQ romance, YA murder mystery

Mikki Blu's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Caleb Roehrig, LGBTQ romance, YA murder mystery ·
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Romantic Comedies are my favorite genre, and these ones are good

Rule Breaker by Lily Morton

Deal Maker by Lily Morton

Risk Taker by Lily Morton

March 19, 2019 by ctkat1 1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago I discovered a new contemporary LGBTQ romance writer, Roan Parrish, whose work I really enjoyed. Finding a new author is always exciting for me, as I have a tendency to read everything by the authors I like. I’ve been working my way through Roan Parrish’s work, but her books tend towards the heavy and serious, and I found myself looking for something light and romantic…enter this series. Lily Morton’s Mixed Messages series consists of three books: the first book is […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, LGBT Romance, LGBTQ romance, Lily Morton, Mixed Messages Series, Romance, romantic comedy

ctkat1's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, LGBT Romance, LGBTQ romance, Lily Morton, Mixed Messages Series, Romance, romantic comedy ·
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The best LGBTQ romance series I’ve read, despite all the hockey (dear god, so much hockey)

Breakaway by Avon Gale

Save of the Game by Avon Gale

Power Play by Avon Gale

Empty Net by Avon Gale

Coach’s Challenge by Avon Gale

February 20, 2019 by ctkat1 3 Comments

I’ve been a lifelong romance reader (I started reading my mother’s Jude Deveraux and Judy Garland paperbacks when I was 13), but for the past few months I’ve been really into reading LGBTQ romance, specifically m/m romance. I started with the gold standards, Sarina Bowen/Elle Kennedy’s “Him,” N.R. Walker’s “The Weight of It All,” Christina Lauren’s “Autoboyography,” and then Sarina Bowen’s “The Understatement of the Year” before I started searching out other authors/books. Kindle Unlimited has a lot of options, and most of them are…not […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Avon Gale, LGBT Romance, LGBTQ romance, Romance, Scoring Chances

ctkat1's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Avon Gale, LGBT Romance, LGBTQ romance, Romance, Scoring Chances ·
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Do you like romantic men who fall in love VERY fast and then live happily ever after? Then Lucy Lennox might be for you!

Borrowing Blue: Made Marian Book 1 by Lucy Lennox

Taming Teddy: Made Marian Book 2 by Lucy Lennox

Jumping Jude: Made Marian Book 3 by Lucy Lennox

Grounding Griffin: Made Marian Book 4 by Lucy Lennox

Moving Maverick: Made Marian Book 5 by Lucy Lennox

Delivering Dante: Made Marian Book 6 by Lucy Lennox

A Very Marian Christmas: Made Marian Book 7 by Lucy Lennox

February 15, 2019 by ctkat1 Leave a Comment

Lucy Lennox is a prolific ebook author of m/m gay romance. She has written two series, Made Marian and Forever Wilde, about two huge families filled with gay men. She has also collaborated with other authors on several standalone series. I’ve read them all, and rather than review them individually I decided to just review each series. This is her first series, Made Marian. It centers on the Marian family from San Francisco. The Marians have six biological children, three of whom are gay. When […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: gay romance, LGBT Romance, LGBTQ romance, Lucy Lennox, Made Marian series, Romance

ctkat1's CBR11 Review No:8 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: gay romance, LGBT Romance, LGBTQ romance, Lucy Lennox, Made Marian series, Romance ·
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Slightly-better-than-average M/M romance

Fired Up by Riley Hart

February 7, 2019 by ctkat1 2 Comments

I wanted my first review to be for a book that I really loved, but everything I’ve really loved has already been reviewed here (makes sense, given they were all recommended by Mrs. Julien) so I decided my inaugural post would be for a book I liked well enough… So, “Fired Up.” This is the first book in the Fever Falls series, a shared universe between authors Riley Hart and Devon McCormack. Riley Hart wrote  “Fired Up”, and Devon McCormack wrote book #2, “#Burn” (currently […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, Fired Up, gay romance, LGBTQ romance, m/m romance, Riley Hart, Romance

ctkat1's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, Fired Up, gay romance, LGBTQ romance, m/m romance, Riley Hart, Romance ·
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Loving your enemy

October 17, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

This is book two in the Sins of the City series, set in Victorian England and it carries the tale forward that left the reader hanging at the end of the first book.  I won’t go into too much detail on that one here, as you can read my review on that one if you’re interested.  Nathanial Roy is a former lawyer, now crusading journalist who is helping his friend Clem with some legal battles.  In the course of his work, he meets Justin Lazarus, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: cbr9, historical mystery, K.J. Charles, LGBTQ romance, m/m, Sins of the City #2

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:80 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr9, historical mystery, K.J. Charles, LGBTQ romance, m/m, Sins of the City #2 ·
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